STUDENT SAMPLE ESSAYS (Price essay / pink flamingo) Sample #1 In her essay “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History‚” Jennifer Price examines the strange popularity of the popular lawn accessory of the 1950s. In discussing the history of flamingos and the color pink‚ Price criticizes Americans and American culture for its frivolity and ignorance. Price begins the passage by describing the relevance of flamingos pre-50s. She begins this paragraph with a slightly critical tone
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“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.” ― Jodi Picoult Belonging is the perceptions held by individuals‚ which enables them to be inherently connected and to develop an affinity with themselves as well as an intimate bond with place. I believe I have learnt that belonging is the most basic human desire‚ a part of the human condition. In order to achieve true belonging‚ however‚ many feel the need to belong to a particular place
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When we look at belonging we see that it is composed of many aspects‚ belonging to people‚ belonging to group‚ but one which all revolves around is place. Belonging to place means a deep connection to everything associated with it. Good morning/afternoon Teachers and fellow peers‚ today i will be attempting to explain what the concept of belonging means to me and how it is illustrated through my two texts. This intricate connection to place is developed through the novel ‘The Simple Gift’ by Steven
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Explore how perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places. Perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places and their offers of‚ or lack of‚ the physical‚ emotional or spiritual support. Each place offers or has an absence of support‚ which in turn results in either the feeling of belonging or not belonging. In the three texts; “Swallow The Air” by Tara June Winch‚ the poem “Last of His Tribe”‚ and a Tropfest short film
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It’s My Party: The Birthday Party Sequence in Pink Flamingos A film about criminality and unconventionality‚ John Walter’s Pink Flamingoes is a dark comedy independent film. The protagonist‚ Divine‚ is a 300-pound drag woman. She lives with her eccentric family and competes to be “the filthiest person alive” with a corrupt couple. In the birthday party sequence‚ Walter expresses his unique style. He does this by incorporating bizarre situations that would never make it into a Hollywood film and
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made quite clear to the audience: Foley’s “Land Deal” speaks about the European invaders and how Australian Aboriginal land was unfairly traded‚ as well as how something as important as home can be taken away in an instant. Valmanesh’s “Longing Belonging” is a metaphor about how he feels disconnected to the Australian landscape and yet feels a sense of similarity between the fire-shaped deserts of Australia and the dry fields of Iran‚ his hometown. Fiona Foley is an Indigenous Australian photographer
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WALL-E Wall-e is an animated adventure movie that takes place on earth in the future. This story revolves around a trash collecting robot who has been left to clean earth from the mess humans left behind. One day‚ while going through his daily routine‚ Wall-e stumbles upon a seeding plant and carefully puts it in a boot. While returning home ‚ he sees a giant ship land that dispatches a small flying robot‚ who goes around scanning the planet. Wall-e‚ struck with curiosity‚ hunts down the robot
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A sense of belonging may develop at a young age through the positive acts of parents and family. When a the sense of belonging is absent at a young age one‚ may seek to fulfil the need to belong either in other ways or in other places. These aspects of belonging are explored in the travails of the protagonists in the prescribed text The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick’s‚ and my two supplementary texts the novel Ugly By Constance Briscoe‚ and the filmThe Blind Side by John Lee Hancock. Each embarks
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“A sense of belonging is an instinctive human need in all of us” Good morning teachers and students‚ Finding a place to belong is an integral element of developing one’s identity ‚sense of self‚ and enriching relationships‚ which is therefore critical to all of us.To belong is to fit in or to be accepted into a particular group or environment. In order to belong similarities and connections must be felt within that group. The play ‘Rainbow’s End’ by Jane Harrison‚ the novel ‘The boy in the Stripped
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