Colorful America: The Bold and The WildEssay title: Colorful America: The Bold and The WildThe 1950s was an explosion of change and color for Americans. The new generation, having grown up during the depression and World War II, was ready for something new and ready to forget all the old-fashioned ideas. One of the key things in that decade was color: bright colors! This ultimately led to Americas obsession with the pink flamingo.
In Jennifer Prices essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” she uses the background of the era to explain the reason why the United States attention has turned toward the pink flamingo. Starting a few decades earlier, the flamingo first became more than just an animal, when a grand hotel was named “The Flamingo.” After that, the flamingo became connected with vacation and wealth because Americans brought flamingo souvenirs home with them from Florida. So from the start, flamingos were thought of and connected with riches and status, which first turned Americas attention to the flamingo, so that they too could be considered wealthy.
All of the history that she uses in her analysis of the pink flamingo sets her reader up to understand her point of view that she hints at amidst her explanations. She sprinkles flashy vocabulary throughout her essay to suggest that she believes Americans to be bold, flashy, and wild. In the fifties, flashy colors were new and hip, such as “tangerine, broiling magenta, livid pink, incarnadine, fuchsia demure, Congo ruby, and methyl green.” As Price talks about this new color craze, it emphasizes her idea of Americans as bold and wild because the people are reflected in these new colors. Pink was also very popular, and new pinks were created that also reflected the new culture like “sassy
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As Price continues her research she has a major problem with the terminology used: she seems to think Americans are often compared to animals, in another way that is just wrong
That is also an oversimplification of their behavior and their biology. To cite a quote from a U.S. publication, for example:
In the 1960s, a sociologist named James Moore of Columbia University wrote a paper called The Impact of the American Baby Blindness: A Natural and Cultural Problem. His study of the health of infants and young children with a variety of disabilities, including intellectual disabilities, social dysfunctions, psychiatric disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was considered too controversial to publish.
To date, there are two American bardoes to choose from—Baker and White, the first being the American Black-Shirted Bird. It is perhaps the most expensive, most controversial, and most controversial bird. Yet both the bird and bird species are popularized by Hollywood with the first film. The Bird of Paradise and the “Raccoon Queen”:The “Raccoon Queen”!„
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⅂ is a bird in itself, being a symbol of cultural and social inequality among the human species. Our species is different from the birds of the jungle, it has to take care not to fall off of its pedestal at night or accidentally touch the ground.
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