"Would we be killed?"

American Indians where made feel like they didn't exist.  They where pushed aside they wanted their kids to not be white.  In the article it said "'kill the Indian save the man'".  It also says "All the Students where given Christian names".  Whites thought that American Indians where Dangerous and trouble makers.  It even says in the article "American Indian tribes were in dire trouble". All these text evidence mean that whites wanted to get rid of American Indians. 

The purpose of her essay is to say that she is the same as other people just because she is from a different culture that doesn't make her different. In the story it said, "I take showers, watch finding carter on MTV, and wear jeans, just like any other teen". Shanice wants reader to understand that we are all the same, but with different beliefs. Shanice says that Native Americans living today have 2 big ceremonies each year. In the article it says "One in the spring,Big time, and another in the fall, Indian days". Shanice explains that Native Americans don't just were moccasins and a headdress.

"Scorpions"

In this story Jamal's  is taken to jail, but his family thinks that its only $500 to bail him out.  Jamal's duty is to take his place as a gang leader.  Jamal doesn't want to join the gang but he has too.  Jamal's job in the gang is to sell cocaine.  Jamal says that he isn't scared if his best friend Tito is with him all along.  All the Gang wants to do is make money of selling cocaine.  Jamal in school fight Dwayne the guy who keeps on bullying him and during the fight Jamal threatens Dwayne with a gun which leads Jamal in more trouble.

Jamal says different thing but does the opposite like Contrast and Contradictions.  For example "Im only in the gang to take my brothers place" and when he goes to school and threatens Dwayne he is acting like a gang banger.  Jamal acts the opposite he says he will.  He also says that when his brother gets out he will stop sellling crack but, he says he likes to win money like that.