“No immigrant presumes to make the demand that the state grant special status to his language. He may speak it in the street and proudly teach it to his children, but he knows that his future and certainly theirs lie inevitably in learning English as the gateway to American life” (Krauthammer).
Today we live in a diverse and globalized world; now many people who are in different places can interact with each other. Many people move to different places to settle and as they settle in different places, great concern with many people is their language. How should one interact with another? Should he learn the language of the other person? Or should the other person learn his language? These questions still sir debates in the United States of America. For ages English has served as the language of the land. To change the language in the United States would mean definite abolition of a working system. The United States should make English the official language because nothing has really changed in America about immigration. If English is not made the official language, bilingual education could really hamper the already functional language system and if we open our eyes to see what is going on around the world, we can see that English is gaining a trend as a global language.
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An individual’s relationship to community and community’s relationship to an individual is a very abysmal bond. Community has a responsibility to make an individual part of them. Similarly individual has a responsibility to be part of a community, and their social norms. There are times where this relationship is a great help, but often the same relationship goes wrong. Community by definition is a social group that contains members with similar ideology, locality and share common language. Many times in communities people don’t share the same ideology or methodology. And that is when things take a bad turn. This unbalanced relationship can be seen in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Much Madness is Divinest Sense”. In “Much Madness is Divinest Sense”, Emily Dickson argues that in many societies, people who are considered ‘mad’ are usually the sane ones. And those who are considered sane, they are the true mad ones. She portrays this idea of community always wanting to go a certain way without giving considerations to odd ideas. That is very relevant to our human history. There was a time when majority of world believed world was flat. But there were few who knew earth was spherical. The notion that earth was not flat seemed odd to people and the few who thought differently were persecuted and hated. They were the odd ones in society when majority should have been. In the poem she shows her dislike of a community or majority by saying “Much sense- the starkest Madness- / ‘Tis the Majority” (Dickson 87). We as humans always like to make sense of things around us; many times being in a group provides reasoning. And almost always for majority the worst theories make most sense. Hitler and Stalin are the two most notorious people who have played a big role in shaping the 20th century’s history. Although both were ideologically very different dictators, they both succeeded in rising to power within their country; which in result had led to the deaths of millions under their dictatorship. The success was mostly attributed to their new ideas and their politics. Both Stalin and Hitler were not born in the countries where they rose to power. Stalin was born in Georgia. He had been very fascinated by Marxist ideas in his teenage years. He had been expelled from his school while he was trying to teach his classmates about Marxism. He had then joined underground Marxist groups. After being caught he was exiled to Russia. Hitler was born in Austria, near the border to Prussia. When he saw the war building up in then Prussia, he went to join the Prussian army to fight in World War One. Both men started to get more attached to the country they fought for. This led to nationalist thoughts in both. After the world war one, there was a lot of chaos in the political and economic situations in both Russia and Germany. Hitler and Stalin, used the destabilization as a way to get to the power. They both saw themselves as figures on a very large historical canvas. They had views on politics, leadership, law, nature, culture, science, social structures, military strategy, technology, philosophy and history.[1] They understood these ideas on their own terms, because they influenced decisions both men took and shaped their political preferences. Also because of the nature of their authority, it influenced in turn the wide circle of politicians and officials around them.[2] Stalin and Hitler, though they are completely different ideological people, shared a horror of childhood, fought a life changing war, and went through a dangerous time where everything could have caused completely different end results to their political careers; these experiences taught them how to get the masses to follow them and rose to power with excessive amount of propagandas. |
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