Crime Rates towards the American Indian Populations

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Two recent news articles entitled “Anti-Indian hate crimes rose dramatically in first year of Trump presidency” and “Lakota woman remains in critical condition after brutal attack” would be analyzed in this paper. On the one hand, the first article was written by Agoyo (2018), and talks directly about the shift in crime rates towards the American Indian populations ever since Trump’s assumption. The author has utilized a more objective type of reporting by focusing on statistics, which appears to be true when verified. On the other hand, the succeeding article that talks about one particular case of assault towards an American Indian woman, was written by Abourezk (2018). In this article, the author has used a more subjective tone of writing as he utilized a lot of quotations from the statements made by the woman and the authorities. Despite the differences in terms of method and tone of reporting, what is apparent is that both of these articles are intended to persua...