It envisions political life in ways that will sharpen, deepen and extend the grounds for developing a better understanding about the significance and meaning of language policy and planning informed by geopolitical events and actions at the national and international levels. ... It refers to cases in which the attributed status of a language or variety is changed, for example, the designation of a language as the Official or National language, Language of Wider Communication. ... If minority language speakers clamour for their language rights, there may be another set of minority language gr...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From there, the Flemish people were forced to adopt the language of the minority Walloons. ... The main goals of primary education are to teach self-expression in the mother language, reading, writing, and arithmetic. ... In this program, included are studies in classical and modern humanities, economics, science, and modern languages. ... The Belgian judicial system is divided into four levels: Judicial Canton, District Courts, Regional, and National Courts. ... The nation's highest courts are National Civil and Criminal Courts of Appeal, Labor Courts, and the Supreme Court of Justic...

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Immigration has always been a major topic for discussion for people interested in national and international affair of the United States since the founding of the nation. ... In Immigration And National Identity In Obama's America: The Expansion Of Culture-War Politics, Williams reviews immigration problems in America focuses on culture diversity establishment and equilibrium. ...

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The official language of the Netherlands is Dutch. ... Dutch is also acknowledged as the language of an outstanding literature. ... Writers used local dialects and no standard form of language was recognized. ... Between 1516 and 1814, Modern Dutch lost its position as and influence of culture, but was restored by the Flemish national movement in the 19th century. In 1938, the government granted Dutch as the sole official language. ...

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Some of the challenges that the Italian immigrants faced include language barriers, and cultural challenges emanating from the fact that they had to adapt to new systems if education, social relationships, and religions (Doherty 82). ...

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(MEI) was one of the leading electronics firms in the world, well known for its Panasonic, National, Technics and Quasar brands. ... All of its board members and senior executives, and virtually all top managers in the company, were Japanese nationals. ... The work forces of the Sales Companies comprises local nationals with some Japanese expatriates in management level. ... The free movement of goods, service, capital and people increases trade between European members and bring down the borders, which gradually eliminate the fragmented market between countries and become one single European ...

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INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO THE PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Tendik Tynystanov TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . 2 The European Union........................................................" ...

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This being a Union cultivated in an environment of global change, and opposed with the challenge of incorporating a "rich tapestry" of diverse religious beliefs, cultural disparities, and the barrier of language. ... Essentially, this concept of Europe's "rich tapestry" can be fully explored in the context of European national identity, but it is one element of peace and stability, that comes from within, a peace that starts at home. ...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social sys...

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The prevalent language is Italian. ... The most popular soccer athletes are looked upon as national heroes and icons in Italy. ... Since 1992, economic policy in Italy has focused primarily on reducing government budget deficits and reining in the national debt. The national debt, which stood at roughly 124% of GDP in 1995, declined to 109.4% in 2001. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They all agree on the same language of Swedish but a cool fact about most Swedes is that most people speak fluent English as well. In fact many people say that out of all countries with a secondary language of English they speak it the best (Sjögren, 2012, p. 420). ... They also celebrate many of the same holidays like Easter, Christmas, and the countries national day just like we do in America. ...

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• Grade Level: High School