Flamingos Behavior

This is a summary of the video we saw on the fifth of july’s lecture about John Cleese’s documentary about lemurs. He went on a three week expedition to the forest of Madagascar, to follow five black and white lemurs known as”Carolina five” that were born into captivity and then released into the rainforest. The video discusses the characteristics of several primate species. Lemur behaviors shown include bipedalism, leaping, climbing, playing, sunning, eating, feeding, vocalization, clinging, grooming, and defecation.

Jennifer Price, in her essay "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History," highlights the American culture's ridiculous obsession with displaying wealth through her use of diction, tone, and simile/metaphor. She depicts American culture as nonsensical, and thus ridiculous, because of its disposal of normal standards or logic in order to fulfill its materialistic desires which is shown through the popularity of the pink plastic flamingo in the 1950s.

In the essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” by Jennifer price; the author shows implicitly her idea and point of view on the topic on the United States culture. The idea is that the U.S.A‘s culture is very overbearing, this is shown by her view on how Americans are so worried with their image that is seen by society. Price uses many writing techniques to express her view on United States culture, by the usage of diction, tone, and symbolism Price is able to convey her analysis on the greed and the corruption occurring in the American culture.

Jennifer Price’s essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” introduces the origins of the famous lawn ornaments. Price’s purpose is to educate about the hypocrisy of American culture and how many live a life of extravagance and fortune without raising a finger. She adopts an informative tone in the first paragraph that shifts to a sarcastic tone in order to exemplify the state of insincerity of the American ways to the citizens of America.

In sprawling suburbs across America, lies the remnants of a different era. In those few houses left relatively untouched and never remodeled, one can see the markings of the 1950s, an era of kitchens and bathrooms decorated in a monochrome of Hot Pink, just like the plastic pink lawn flamingos. In her essay, Jenniffer Price discusses the history of the flamingos in the United States and uses them as a symbol of America’s culture. Through her use of diction and imagery in the essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Jennifer Price characterizes American Culture as materialistic.

In Jennifer Price’s essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” (1999), she proclaims that the United States has embraced the pink flamingo and its history. The author utilizes benevolent diction, enlightening metaphor, and alluding allusion. Price’s purpose to get people to understand the beauty of the pink flamingo in order to show her view of how the flamingo changed the culture of the United States. The author writes in a admirable tone for her audience of American citizens.

represent her opinion of the United States as a whole. Price writes “In ancient Egypt, it

The author, Jennifer Price used similes, imagery and satire throughout the passage “The Plastic Pink Flamingo:A Natural History”. Each device is used for a particular reason and helps bring the purpose of the passage together. The purpose of this passage is to depict how we as individuals are basically immature with our money and waste our money on things that aren’t as necessary and that we could do without. We have to keep in mind when we are reading her passage, that she grew up in the Great Depression so her stance is different than ours when it comes to money.

In Jennifer Price’s “The Plastic Pink Flamingos: A Natural History,”she gives a brief history about the pink flamingo and its iconic meaning in America’s pop culture. In addition to the meaning behind the pink flamingo, she connects her historical context to reveal her thoughts on American culture. In the text, Price utilizes historical allusions and extravagant diction and asks us to experience her frustration with today’s American society and asks us to consider her criticism towards America’s romanticization of materialistic things.

Jennifer Price, author of “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, analyzes the imminent- yet strange- popularity of the accessory that could be found on just about every lawn in America during the 1950’s. While discussing the history of the plastic pink flamingo and generally the color pink, Price reveals her view that American culture is both ignorant and frivolous; she does so by incorporating stylistic elements such as selection of detail, juxtaposition, and sarcasm.

After the rough times of the thirties, with the great depression vastly affecting a majority of American citizens, the forties and fifties brought a period of greatly needed hope and prosperity; simultaneously, the fifties also brought rise to the famous plastic pink flamingo. In her essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, author Jennifer Price examines the phenomenon of the toy bird and the impact it had on society. By using colorful diction, a sarcastic tone, and contrasting ideas, Price is able to effectively convey her view of United States culture and reveal the inner problems of a seemingly booming nation.

In Jennifer Price’s recent essay, “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History,” Price uses the idea of the plastic pink flamingo that is strangely popular throughout America to criticize the present United States culture. As expected from the contrary words “plastic” and “natural” in just the title of her essay, this passage is driven by irony. With that said, Price uses a satirical tone to criticize the ignorance of American culture.

In The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History (1999), Jennifer Price implies that the pink flamingo had a boost of popularity in the 1950’s. Price showcases the increase of popularity by discussing the new uses of the flamingo, such as that in Florida for hotels, and makes clear her view of the United States culture which is now prosperity and wealth through the flamingo. She focuses on new unique uses of the pink flamingo in order to call attention to the sudden interest of the flamingo, which had earlier been overlooked. Price addresses anyone interested in learning more about the booming popularity of the pink flamingo in the 1950’s along with anyone else concerned with this time period

On Friday, March 31, a observation study was conducted at the L.A. Zoo. The time of arrival for the observation was at 11:48 am and the end of the observation was at 2:42 pm. The weather condition at the zoo was very sunny with a mild gust of wind every so often, which is a perfect weather condition to conduct a study. The main reason for conducting this observation study was to study and gather information about the many different types of primate that are located at the zoo. To see how different or similar each primate is to one anotherin different aspects.

The most limiting factor present throughout this investigation was the limited sample size of the Freddo Frogs. As stated several times throughout this investigation, a larger sample size produces more accurate and reliable results, however, only a sample size of 20 Freddo Frogs were used to minimize the economical costs involved. Therefore, the results obtained through this investigation may not have been very accurate or reliable due to the limited sample size. Therefore, a larger sample size should be used to obtain better results and allow the mathematical functions (Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Level Intervals) to be applied effectively and produce reliable