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The Official Language of the US: Does One Exist?

language skill development are compelling reasons for creating a national language which underscores our collective national cultu...

U.S. and Having as its Official Language Spanish

as an official language than in taking on English as an official language. Interestingly enough, "One of six official languages...

Why English Should Not Be the U.S. Official Language

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

U.S. and Arguing Against Making English Its Official Language

the nation and to discriminate against them would do ultimate damage to the United States. If a person were to only have the Eng...

Post-Cold War Policies to Facilitate “One Europe”

be issued an invitation" (Krahmann, Terriff and Webber, 2001). Despite the opposition, the U.S. position won the day (Krahmann, Te...

Challenges of English as a Second Language for High School Students

students do when trying to learn English. These special needs students are not routinely given the individualized attention they ...

The Debate about Making English an Official Language

both English and French are official languages (Krauthammer, 2006). According to Mr. Krauthammer, the experience of having more th...

Animal Thinking and Language

between thought and language (Myers, 2006). The findings of renowned linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) that were published ...

History of the Philippines from Various Perspectives

referred to as the "ilustrados," which means the "enlightened ones" (Bunge PG). The ilustrados began to demand that native Filipin...

Forces of Deviance by Kappeler, Sluder, and Alpert Chapter Summaries

(authoritarian and conservative) that attract them to police work and that their personalities shape the work they do. The other ...

ESL is Better than Bilingual Education

(Bilingual/ESL, 2004). Carrasquillo and Rodriguez (1996) point out that mainstreaming LEP students is one of the most significan...

Making Hospitals Eco-Friendly

2008). The hospital eventually spend over $1 million to change packaging to non-petroleum based materials and to make the facility...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

The Role Of The First Language In The Acquisition Of A Second Language

There are a number of theories that have been developed when considering second language acquisition, especially in the context of...

The Role of First Language in Second Language Acquisition

expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...

Making English the Official Language of the US

represented (Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research). Not surprisingly, the English Only issue has been in the cou...

'Official' Language of the U.S.

In five pages this paper argues against English becoming the official language of the United States in a consideration of the impo...

Problems in an ESL Classroom

It is important that every idea offered is written down even if the idea seems to have no connection or relationship to the topic ...

Enron & WorldCom: Who Blew The Whistle?

agreement -- why should the whistle blowers? This is precisely how the handful of individuals felt when they learned their corpor...

Language as a Key to Inner Landscapes

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

Women in Management

Gilbert, 2003). In order to get to the top of a corporate hierarchy, women have been advised to "mimic the sometimes coldhearted, ...

Currency Risks

back this is known as covering the short (Howells and Bain, 2004). If the currency does not fall then the bank may face high costs...

A Consideration of the Color of the Law

Numerous safeguards exist to protect US citizens from a misuse of power by officials. Officials that purport to be doing their du...

Torrential Rains in Indonesia

A number of locations in Indonesia experience torrential rains and flooding every year during their wet season and each people die...

The Cold War and Aldrich Ames

Aldrich Ames worked. According to one Western intelligence official, the commitment of Ames to his task was absolute, he acted ...

Shame and Respect Expressions

In six pages this paper considers the relationship that exists between shame and respect social norms and language as represented ...

Language Competence and Language Performance Differences

a play we can look at this further. The role of a play may be to entertain and inform, yet, whatever the purpose of the play there...

Social Construction or Cognitive Development in the Relationship Between Emotion and Language

is a complex one and not one in which all researchers are in agreement. This question is central, however, to understanding of ho...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

Child Development and Semantics

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the process through which children acquire language. This paper relate...