WRT-101-013 30 November 2012 Topic: Should English be the national language of the United States? Yes‚ English should be the national language of the United States. Why? There are 85 percent of other countries that have a national language‚ why not the United States. Of 52 states in the U.S. 30 has made English the national language. Learning Objective: The reason why I want to concentrate on this issue is because I want to explain why United States should make English the national language not
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Introduction “Using government to achieve a welfare state involves using other people’s money‚ taken by force — and that is a fatal flaw that leads to fiscal catastrophe."1 Ultimately‚ welfare states do more bad than good for a country and its people. They create temporary solutions for problems that require many resources and time. Even with the problems welfare states correct‚ they still create more problems that they fix. These glitches can be seen through the United Kingdom. The tax structure
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The world is full of all kinds of opinions‚ images‚ and ideas that‚ on the surface‚ one would naturally want to censor. While the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights provides we Americans with the right to free speech‚ there are exceptions that are not covered. However‚ if outside those exceptions‚ certain groups or individuals have their rights stripped away due to an unpopular opinion‚ then how long will it be until nearly every other group also loses these rights? Leaving America looking
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As of 2014‚ 21 states have larger minimum wages than the federal minimum of $7.25‚ but our national government still has not gotten the message that America needs its minimum wage to be raised (Jost 76). Raising minimum wage has been a hot topic ever since its conception in 1938‚ back when minimum wage was only $0.25 (“Minimum Wage”). Although it is a successful tradition to raise minimum wage to match inflation and match people’s needs‚ some individuals believe there is no need to raise it. Many
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expectation to something‚ and this as well include parents too. The short story ’Two Kinds’ written by Amy Tan is from 1989‚ and it delineates a mother’s attempt to push her daughter into achieving a prodigious lifestyle. The mother is an immi-grant from China‚ but her daughter is born in America. The cultural difference of their upbringing and childhood results in different values and ideals of how the individual person should become‚ and this is one of the main themes that constitute the short story.
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The Separation of Power – The US Federal Government Structure The United States created its federal government structure at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 with the separation of power in mind. The delegates wanted to make sure that no one person could have too much power. After being controlled by England‚ young America did not want to be overly regulated by a dictator or tyrant. However‚ they wanted the government to have enough power to effectively rule the nation. The delegates made
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Quynh Tran Professor Victoria Murray Expository Writing II 10/2/2014 Two Kinds "Two Kinds" is truly an amazing work; it captivates readers by telling a story of a young girl trying to find herself. Amy Tan does a phenomenal job‚ not only by portraying a very real mother-daughter relationship‚ but at showing how much a young girl can change. Jing-Mei evolves throughout the story in a way that many people can relate to; crushed hopes
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The story “Two Kinds‚” written by Amy Tan‚ has a plot that many people can relate to while growing up as a child. The theme of the story is that there are two kinds of people: the one the mother wants her to be and the one Jing-mei (the protagonist and narrator of the story) strives to be. Both mother and daughter in the story have a very complicated relationship. The mother believes that you could become anything you wanted in America. The author emphasizes that Jing-mei’s mother tries to dominate
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Illegal Immigrants With the rise of illegal immigrants‚ the United States has had difficulties solving the issue for a long time. Hence‚ there’re many factors for the causes and solutions from different branches and the government. “Amnesty?” and “Why blame Mexico?” are two articles that discuss the reasons for millions of Mexicans risking their lives to come illegally to the U.S. and indeed illustrate the writer’s perspectives and ideas for those people. In “Amnesty?”‚ John F. Kavanaugh‚ a
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Theories of the Moving Image In Jean Epstein’s 1923 essay on cinema ‘On Certain Characteristics of Photogénie’‚ he immediately invites the idea of a spectrum in film‚ where the art of cinema and the film industry are‚ in their most exclusive forms‚ at opposite ends of the said spectrum. Through metaphor he alludes to the important argument: ‘can the art of cinema exist without the film industry?’ (or vice versa) or‚ ‘should films be made which utilise both the art of cinema and the film industry
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