The Importance of an Official Language in American Society. The United States of America has commonly been referred to as a great melting pot because we are a country comprised of many different cultures and ethnic backgrounds. The original idea of our melting pot was that one nation would be made out of immigrants from different nations around the world. That cultural influx has created the vibrant and diverse atmosphere of today’s American society. As a society‚ it is important to appreciate
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Hiding Behind the Screen Roger Scruton The New Atlantis; Summer 2010; pp. 48-60 Human relations‚ and the self-image of the human being‚ have been profoundly affected by the Internet and by the ease with which images of other people can be summoned to the computer screen to become the objects of emotional attention. How should we conceptualize this change‚ and what is its effect on the psychic condition of people who construct their world of interests and relationships through the screen? Is
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The Chemistry Behind Airbags Hannah Klein 4/5/13 pd. 11 Airbags are a type of automobile safety restraint like seatbelts‚ they are balloon-like devices that expand when a car experiences a collision‚ providing a cushion of air that prevents a person from bashing their face on the dashboard or steering wheel and suffering concussion‚ disfigurement‚ or worse. Airbags are usually fitted in the front seats. A car that is described as having a “driver’s side airbag” has one airbag only‚ designed
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Should officials be able to use information they find on personal devices or social media to protect communities? Officials have the right to search a guilty person’s device and use information from it to protect the community. Although‚ officials searching personal devices would be an invasion of privacy‚ and people won’t feel like they are able to do what they want. Officials should be able to search personal devices and use the information to ensure people’s safety. For example‚ whatever is
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Should No Child Left Behind Be Reformed? The issue of trying to bring the achievement gap closer together is an issue that has been haunting the government for ages. To start out with‚ our international test scores are dropping scarily. We have gone from top 10 in math and reading to 30th in math and 20th is reading according to PISA. The goal of NCLB was to make students better at reading and math but we are getting worse. The No Child Left Behind act was created by our 43rd President George
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In a PIL filed by Shiv Sagar Tiwari‚ a lawyer who claimed that using English as an official language in higher judiciary was “a legacy of the British rule” which should be scrapped. The Department of Official Language in the Ministry of Home affairs filed its affidavit in response shooting down the idea of amending the Constitution to make Hindi the official language for conducting court in higher judiciary‚ and relied upon a report by the law commission in this regard. Now the Issue that arises
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Rob Hill Professor Terry Thuemling WP121G 5 November 2004 Behind the Walls of the Ghetto Commenting on the famed Los Angeles ghetto in which he grew up‚ gangster rapper Ice Cube asserts‚ "If you ain ’t never been to the ghetto‚ don ’t ever come to the ghetto" (Cube‚ Ghetto Vet). But why are American ghettos filled with so much violence‚ drugs‚ and inopportunity? In John Singleton ’s powerful drama Boyz N the Hood the harsh reality of youths growing up in South Central Los Angeles‚ a place
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Angry Behind the Wheel Have you ever gotten mad while you were out driving? If you saw somebody else driving while using their cell phone‚ failing to yield while merging or driving recklessly around you‚ would you not become a little upset by their actions? Chances are‚ you have had road rage at some point. Unfortunately‚ road rage affects some people more strongly than others‚ and those people who get angrier or more impulsive are then the ones who are becoming a danger to themselves and to those
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and recognised only if the acts in question were done in an official capacity and that if the acts are related to the state. This has it that there is a relationship between acts done in an official capacity by heads of state and the state itself. They say that there is a question that arises in the Pinochet case as to whether torture was not regarded in the case to be an official act because torture as an act cannot be regarded as official under international law or because torture is a crime under
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Jonathan smith Mrs. Cox English II 11 November 2013 The Truth Behind Zombies America’s most feared icon of the 21st century is none other than zombies. Most people think of zombies as horror fiction characters that mutilate humans and take over the world but there is more to them than meets the eye. There is even true logical and scientific reasoning behind this possible phenomenon. there are several explanations of how zombies could become a reality like voodoo rituals‚ mutating diseases‚ and
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