To recognize the historical fact that the United Sates has been an overwhelmingly English speaking nation since it was created and that its constitution and foundational documents are in English. 5. To recognize that while the people of the United States value and respect diversity, they want to preserve English as their common language and therefore immigrants have the responsibility to learn English. 6. To conform to the majority of the states (31) that already have made English their official language.
The New Right also believes that a successful school will gather sufficient momentum to build on its successes. They also see the major role of education is the development of skills and knowledge required to compete in the outside market. They believe that schools should be managed in the same way as businesses However, some theorists such as Chubb and Moe would argue that American state education has failed and they make the case for opening it up to new marker forces of supply and demand. They claim that disadvantaged groups (lower classes, ethnic minorities ect) have been badly served by state education due to the failure to create equal opportunity. Theyâd argue that state education is inefficient because it fails to produce pupils with the skills needed by the economy and
This was important because it was a way for local community’s to ensure that education was passed down from generation to generation. The main goal was to avoid a generation of poor and unintelligent. Everyone got enough education to read the bible and understand laws that were made from the bible. * 1821 First High school Boston. The English high school of Boston Mass taught English, surveying navigation, geography, logic, and mathematics.
The British colonies wanted independence from Great Britain due to a number of practices that they felt were unfair; high taxes and lack of government representation were the most important. The four key ideals discussed are: equality, unalienable rights, consent of the governed, and the right to alter and abolish government. While they are all very important to the founding of this country, unalienable rights is the most important because without life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the other three key ideals are not meaningful to the future of this young nation. Equality of men and women is extremely important even in American society in recent times. It is the reason that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his life to make sure that African-Americans would have the very same rights as any other American citizen.
Despite all these differences, the colonies also had very strong reason to unity. Many agreed to conjoining colonies because it would give the opportunity for more alliance to depend on, it would help for the colonies to grow and better themselves in general. Also, they believe it would help limit the government from over power. To begin, during this time tensions with other countries were slowly tightening. One reason why was because England passed the Acts of Navigation.
This is change is crucial to a person establishing normalcy in their life. The assumption that personal choice is used to establish identity may be difficult to argue against the assumption about identity coming from culture. Culture can play a minor role in creating one’s self as states in the essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua, (p.77)“I, and all Chicano students, were required to take speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.” The accent is part of your culture, your culture is part of your identity. Even though her mother wanted her to speak English to blend in, it was the authors’ decision to hold onto both
It said that “Vargas is incredibly brave to risk everything he has accomplished in this country in order tell the truth and to shine yet another but still much needed light on the pressing need for comprehensive immigration reform in this country” (O’Connor 388-389). This quote mean that because he is an immigrant doesn’t mean he stop reaching his American dream striving to what he want to become that’s why without people like him our country will be poorer. Esther Cepeda believes that Jose Vargas is in wrong doing for being an undocumented. It say in her essay “it’s almost impossible to not be deeply disturbed by self-promotion disguised as sacrifice, the blatant criminal activity and distasteful comparison to the experiences of African American in their struggle for equality” (Cepeda 391). This quote is trying to say is that there are Americans with the struggle that José Vargas has that didn’t get the same equality that he has.
For an immigrant to believe English should be the official language is surprising and a powerful statement, because it is not even their natural language and yet they still believe it should be the official language of the United States. One argument Hayakawa provides is the fact that for centuries the Chinese and Japanese did not get along. In the United States during World War II, there was an abundance of Chinese and Japanese immigrants in the country. It wasn’t until they both learned how to speak English did the two groups finally get to know each other. This proves how having a common language can bring diverse groups of people together.
We should focus more on not allowing illegal immigrants from entering our great nation and support the legal immigrants who put in an honest day of work and also pay their taxes accordingly. With this structure which I understand is one that is hard to implement I know we will find the harmony and accord in which labels our nation as an “economic global power”. We should also find a balance to where both hometown natives and legal immigrants work in harmony producing the products that our nations so desperately needs and use. Together we will stand in assisting our country maintain its place as a global super power. While being sensitive to the legal immigrant and hometown
Also in this, we must insure that our nation continues to be a world leader. By upping security in the system we have created towards regulation of citizenship, the citizens who currently reside in the United States will have more safety and peace of mind in knowing that terrorism or corruptness will be minimal in this country. Many still point the problem of immigration towards other petty issues, such as: lower working wages, tax payer’s money funding public health care, and school crowdedness, but the real problem of immigration is the lack of national