Local Elections? Join the Party!
September 6, 2015
S: Daisann McLane travels often around the world and has had several experiences in countries during local elections.
O: McLane writes this while she is in Thailand during their local elections and observes several different political parties campaigning on the streets, because the government restricts how much money each party is allowed.
A: The article is aimed towards people who avoid traveling to countries during elections in fear.
P: This article was written to open traveler’s eyes about how different countries operate during local elections. Many people have the perceived notion that anything dealing with politics in any country is dangerous and violent, but as McLane walks down a street in Thailand and sees
“Men sporting the heads of tigers and lizards are staring at me from street corners. They stand alongside other men and women dressed in suits and other military uniforms draped in medals… No, I’m not having a jet lag- induced nightmare. I’m wide awake walking around Bangkok around Thailand’s big national election.”
She realizes that politics showcases a countries culture and history all at one time. Politics helps shape a country just as much as other beliefs and traditions.
S: McLane’s goal is to show people how many opportunities come up in countries when people are able to questions things freely and publicly. The whole subject of the piece is that politics showcases all of a countries traditions, cultures, and being. McLane points out the cultural differences between different countries political campaigns and how they reflect a countries experiences. Although McLane does warn not to visit war zones and to do an appropriate amount of research on the area beforehand, also to be careful of what you say there, she still urges people to go because it unleashes new opportunities and once and a life time experiences.
Tone: Her tone throughout the piece is passionate and learned as she takes her experiences and what she had learned through her travels and tries to motivate people to go and live these opportunities themselves.
September 6, 2015
S: Daisann McLane travels often around the world and has had several experiences in countries during local elections.
O: McLane writes this while she is in Thailand during their local elections and observes several different political parties campaigning on the streets, because the government restricts how much money each party is allowed.
A: The article is aimed towards people who avoid traveling to countries during elections in fear.
P: This article was written to open traveler’s eyes about how different countries operate during local elections. Many people have the perceived notion that anything dealing with politics in any country is dangerous and violent, but as McLane walks down a street in Thailand and sees
“Men sporting the heads of tigers and lizards are staring at me from street corners. They stand alongside other men and women dressed in suits and other military uniforms draped in medals… No, I’m not having a jet lag- induced nightmare. I’m wide awake walking around Bangkok around Thailand’s big national election.”
She realizes that politics showcases a countries culture and history all at one time. Politics helps shape a country just as much as other beliefs and traditions.
S: McLane’s goal is to show people how many opportunities come up in countries when people are able to questions things freely and publicly. The whole subject of the piece is that politics showcases all of a countries traditions, cultures, and being. McLane points out the cultural differences between different countries political campaigns and how they reflect a countries experiences. Although McLane does warn not to visit war zones and to do an appropriate amount of research on the area beforehand, also to be careful of what you say there, she still urges people to go because it unleashes new opportunities and once and a life time experiences.
Tone: Her tone throughout the piece is passionate and learned as she takes her experiences and what she had learned through her travels and tries to motivate people to go and live these opportunities themselves.
Daisann McLane does an amazing job at crafting Imagery to describe her experiences, especially in several different countries she visited during their local elections. She describes vivid pictures of when she went to Bangkok, Thailand during their national elections, she explains how Thailand’s political campaigns work and how they are so different from our own. She describes the hand-painted billboards for the candidates and the alien scenes of their street corners. She doesn’t stop there she talks about her experiences bonding, singing, celebrating with local people after election results and when political issues are resolved. Through this Imagery McLane brings these incredible scenes to her readers and in turn attempts to motivate us to go and experiences these things for ourselves. This appeal is incredibly important for her argument because it brings the whole article to life and is incredibly persuasive.
You can read Daisann McLane's article "Local Election? Join the Party!" in National Geographic Traveler or at
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/real-travel/elections/