To conform to the majority of the states (31) that already have made English their official language. 7. To respond to the will of the American people, 87 percent of whom believe English should be our official language. 8. To conform to the rest of the world: Eighty-five percent of the UN’s member nations have the official languages.
Official Language Of The U.S. Roberto Dominguez English Comp II Professor Sipple October 17, 2011 Abstract The reason for my topic is to let people know that the United States should have their own official language, which should be English. My focus is to show how much the Unites States would benefit by making English the official language. I mention some sources on how it will benefit us and also how it has cost us to be a multilingual country by spending millions on services that comes in many languages. In countries all over the world have their own official language that most people talk in that certain country? If you go to France everyone talks French, if you go to Spain people speak Spanish, if you go to Germany everyone there speaks German.
There are now more than 322 languages spoken in the United States (U.S. Census, 2000). ). As of 2010 thirty states have adopted Official English laws. If the U.S. passed the Official English laws in all states than it would become necessary for the government to provide information and services in English only and does
One of the most important aspects of an academic text is to point out the primary audience, so that we can clearly see whom the author is trying to relate to. “In a 1996 poll by the Knight-Ridder news agency, more Americans chose the 1950’s than any other single decade as the best time for children to grow up” (32). This clearly states the audience the author is trying to convey. The quote is focused on parents of the 1990’s with young children. According to Coontz “If the 1990’s are lopsided in one direction, the 1950’s were equally lopsided in the opposite direction” (34).
97.5% B. 5% C. 2.5% D. 95% Reset Selection Question 19 of 40 2.5 Points A poll of 1,068 adult Americans reveals that 52% of the voters surveyed prefer the Democratic candidate for the presidency. At the 0.05 significance level, test the claim that more than half of all voters prefer the Democrat. A. Reject the null hypothesis.
British political leaders only agreed to televised debates for the first time in the General Election of 2010. * The first televised debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in 2012 attracted almost 70 million viewers. Even allowing for the difference in population, the televised debates between the British party leaders do not attract the same level of interest. * In an American presidential election, turnout is typically around 50% (although in the 2008 election it was over 60%) and, in the case of mid-term Congressional elections, turnout typically falls to around 40%. In the UK, turnout in General Elections used to be around 75% but more recently has fallen to around
The True Cost of Textbooks Dear Council Woman Smith, I would first like to congratulate you on your newly elected position. I am writing you in order to discuss a problem that is well known to students, professors, and faculty of higher education: the ever-increasing costs of buying textbooks. The burden of these books often exceeds the cost of tuition at community colleges, where cost of education is often of most importance. I propose mandating that all textbooks required for instruction have an eBook or equivalent online source. This would simultaneously allow more individuals to afford higher education by decreasing the overall cost of instruction material, while decreasing the amount of raw materials used in the production of textbooks.
Let’s Make It Official Should English be the country’s official language? Speaking English in the United States has always been natural to us U.S. citizens. However, it should be the official language to lower the cost of multilingual and bilingual services. The article “Should English Be the Official Language of the United States?” by Jayne Keedle is about the debate whether United States should use English as the official language. English should be the official language of the U.S. because it unifies us, it reduces the cost of providing multilingual services and it has widespread support.
“free-trade advocates suggest helping there workers find new jobs and adjust to the shifting labor market via expanded training and relocation assistance as well as improved unemployment benefits and health insurance to tide workers over between jobs”(Sharon Otterman, 2004, para. 10). While these ideas may sound grand, some of these workers spent thousands of dollars on educations that was believed to be able to help to provide a good living for themselves and family, and suddenly it is taken away and forced to learned something new. Some workers have jobs for maybe over 30 years, they know their jobs very well and these workers could be in their mid-fifties. The older people get the more difficult it is for them to learn new jobs.
And John Tagliabue, In Europe, Going Global Means, Alas, English we can observe many possibilities and restriction of English as a global language. Some people feel English language is difficult to learn because the English words sometimes have change. Barbara Wallraff is a senior editor of The Atlantic magazine; she was interested how English has been changed during the past years. She did her personal research of majority opinion why English has become the global language. However, from the past decade we can observe global changes in Standard English Language because every day only in United States numbers of immigrants has been increase “Today approximately 2.4 million Chinese-speakers live in America, and more than four out of five of them prefer to speak Chinese at home.” people from the different countries prefer to speak and read using their own home language.