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.
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She shows different percentages such as more than 80% of different ethnicities agreed that making English the official language was not racist. She talks about the Rasmussen reports in which one of them which were taken in 2008 during President Obamas campaign. The Rasmussen poll showed that voters did not have the same views as President Obama and that they voted that government documents
Mengnan Cai Christopher J. Stephens Capstone Research Project May 27, 2013 Gun Control Comparison between the US and UK Both the U.S. and UK has statutes and laws about guns. I want to make a comparison about comparison between the U.S. and UK. If you look at gun control in U.K. versus that of the U.S you will find that U.K. and the U.S. are very different. For instance, a ban on all hand-guns in the U.K. is expected to easily pass in the upcoming year. This has to do with the fact that only one out of every twenty homes in Britain has hand-guns, compared to one out of every two in the U.S.
Common Sense was the first document to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. It sold more than 120,000 issues in three months. In the pamphlet, Paine explains his opinion of why America should separate from Great Britain. Paine used everyday language to speak to the common people. “We may as well, assert that, because a child has thrived upon milk, it is never to have meat or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.” This excerpt from Common Sense shows how separating from Great Britain was just another step in the life of our country.
By 1947 the soldiers shrunk to an amount of 1.5 million men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces. Before the war there was an Immigration Act that was put into use in 1921 and it limited the rights into immigrating into America. Finally in 1965 the Immigration Act loosened and immigration started to increase. The key to gaining p[population from immigration is from jobs, wages, government support, cultural arguments, moral arguments, and political arguments. Today the United States of America gets about one million immigrants per
Idiot Nation Analysis In a nation where there is forty four million people who are functionally illiterate, and the ones that do only read 99 hours a year. In the article Idiot Nation Michael Moore points out that America isn’t stupid just ignorant. Moore quotes Noam Chomsky, a linguist and political writer, writing America’s mind is alive and well but not challenged. He uses tone throughout the article and it changes in a couple of places to show his emotions, exemplification to demonstrate his experience with schools, facts and figures to show exact numbers in his arguments, and common sense to connect his ideas to the reader’s ideas. Moore make a point that it’s not the kids fault they are ignorant but the adults.
The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924. Immigrants were to be admitted by their skills and professions rather than by their nationality. It leveled the immigration playing field, giving a nearly equal shot to newcomers from every corner of the world. An annual limitation was established of 170,000 visas for immigrants from eastern hemisphere countries with no more than 20,000 per country. By 1968, the annual limitation from the western hemisphere was set at 120,000 immigrants, with visas available on a first-come, first-served basis.
It is a community of about 13,263 households, of which 34.2% had children under age 18 living with them at the time of the 2010 census. (factfinder2.census.gov/2010) The demographic population of this township is distributed by race as White Non-Hispanic: 89.0%, Black: 1.9%, American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.0%, Asian: 4.5%, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.0%, Hispanic or Latino: 3.5%, Two or more races: 0.8%, and Some other race: 0.2%. (city-data.com) 97.8% of residents of Manalapan Township speak English at home. The median family income was $115,292 in 2010. The windshield survey below will address each of the components we have listed as they relate to this
The official languages are Spanish (84.1%), Quechua (13%), and Aymara (1.7%). Other languages include a minor percentage of native Amazonian languages and also Ashaninka. The literacy rate, which is defined by the number of people over the age of 15 that are able to read and write, includes about 92.9% of the population. According to a 2007 census, about 96.4% of the male population are literate, but only about 89.4% of the population of woman are literate. Lead by President Ollanta Humala, the country is led by a unitary state and a constitutional republic.