Analysis Skills Activity

Questions:
1. What is your initial response to this?
I think that she's just expressing how she feels about her campaign, what it may take to fix America.
Outsider: What she's saying is true, it just might take another Clinton to clean up after another Bush.
2. Why do you react the way you do? Is it an intellectual reaction or an emotional reaction?
I feel this way, because what she's saying just may be the truth. Inellectual, because I have no emotions about the situation.
Outsider: I didn't like Bush and I agree with Hilary. Intellectual, because I don't like Bush's ethics so it's more than emotional.
3. How does this text work? What are its components? How is it organized?
It works as a promotion to her campaign. The componets are her feelings on the question asked. It's organized smoothly.
Outsider: It works as a negative to Bush. She wants to be her own person, not compared to her husband. It's organized smoothly, it flows.
4. What does the author/creator want the audience to believe, feel, or do?
She want the audience to believe that she's her own person, that she's trustworthy, and that she can make a difference, not because of her husband but because of who she is.
Outsider: She wants people to feel that she's the right candidate and she want them to vote for her.
5. What would you say its thesis is?
I can make good things happen just as my husband did.
Outsider: Being judged on her own actions.
6. What genre does it fit into? Or does if defy genre labeling? In what ways?
Politics/Political Science
Outsider: Politics
7. How do you know what you know about this object?
I read the article and it's something that's talked about all the time.
Outsider: I read it, it's in the news everyday.