in Joy Harjo's "New Orleans", the line "beaten silver paths" refers to the streets of such city. She remembers of certain Spanish conqueror, De Soto,who came to this lands searching for, and constantly states that he wouldn't find it here. Maybe is a mock to that fact.
The "silver blades and crosses" refers to the sword and crucifix of the conqueror, who drawn in the Mississippi river which dreamt of those items. Maybe this means that the streets of New Orleans were made of the things and dreams of the many conquerors who came to that land in search for gold and failed.
If Erika's teammates so happened to give her a lot of reasons to go along with their plan, then the implicit message (or the underlying meaning; 'read-between-the-lines- message) would be that Erika should agree too it because it is a good plan that they were proposing.
The most common sentence pattern is to write the subject first, followed by the verb: Weeds are important too because birds eat the seeds.
Independent clause: jane ate pizza
Dependent clause: because she was hungry
The definition of answer is a response the concludes the question being asked or solves a problem.
