Project Proposal

I was thinking of doing a movie analysis on American Beauty. My focus would be on looking at the characteristics of different people in the movie to show how the characters change over time during the movie and how that ends up affecting their lives. Otherwise I would want to do the book The Road about a man and his son trying to survive in a post apocolyptic world. I would focus on the writing style used and also the man and his son and how their relationship is much like the relationship between god and Jesus and what message the writer is trying to get across to the reader

Hillary Clinton

1. Mine: my initial response is that she’s lying because she’s been using Bill to help her campaign, which is a really smart idea so she shouldn’t deny it. Also I like her ending joke about cleaning up after the Bushes.
Roomates: Initial response is that she did a good job of trying to convince people she doesn’t want to be judged by her husband’s accomplishments

2. Mine: It’s emotional because I’m annoyed that she is trying to deny using Bill as a political weapons, I think it’s the right thing for her to do but she shouldn’t deny it.
Roomates: Intellectual because he follows the presidential race closely and thinks he is making the decision because of stuff he’s previously thought

3. Mine: It’s organized by her answering what I’m assuming was a questions to her, which most politicians don’t do, and then making a little joke at the end of it.
Roomates: It’s organized well because she gets her point across but then changes the subject on her own terms

4. Mine: The author wants us to believe that she is not using her husband as a political weapons and wants to be judge solely on what she has done
Roomates: Thinks that Hillary wants us to think she is qualified for presidency because of the stuff she has done

5. Mine: The thesis is Hillary Clinton wants the public to look at her accomplishments not her husbands
Roomates: said pretty much the same thesis I had

6. Neither of us could figure out what genre this would go into

7. We both know about this object because of the new following the elections

Active vs Passive

1. Steve gave the waitress the check



2. He recommended the policy be changed.



3. Jenny made a study of the problem



4. A bolt of lightning hit the tower.



5. Jose caught the fly ball.



6. They overheard that some people will be leaving the company.



7. Mr. Smith gave the donation.



8. A rancher in Wyoming discovered the gold



9. The amount written on the check was one million dollars



10. The family made several donations.

Two papers

The first paper does a good job or order and structure for what they are trying to accomplish but the way it’s laid out to its audience is pretty boring. They just spell it out which is nice because it’s straightforward With the second paper they do it in a more humorous way with pictures which could keep it more interesting but the layout is a lot like a textbook which kind of throws off the whole point of it being different. Also it can be a bit harder to understand since you have to reverse everything they tell you.