Canadian Language Association Case Studies

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proven to be one of the most complex and “intractable” conflicts of modern history – or as some may even add – of all time. And after many decades of failed attempts at peacemaking in this region, there still seems to be no conceivable end to the conflict. During those same decades, most of the parties involved as well as the international community have embraced the idea of a two-state solution, but the question we pose today asks whether this solution is still a viable option considering the present context, and if not, is it finally time to consider a one-state solution? This essay will argue that although a two-state solution remains the more

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the one of the world’s oldest conflicts, and it is still an ongoing problem in the world. Zionists and Arabs: two groups with conflicting beliefs who both claim Israel as their own. In wake of the Holocaust the U.N decided to gift the Jews a homeland for the lives lost in the genocide. In 1947, the U.N Partition divided the land of Israel (Historic Palestine) into two separate states: Arab and Jewish. Since then, the state of Israel has been the center of conflict between the Arabs and the Zionists. As time passed the Zionists gained more land from winning the Six-Day War, and consequently the Palestinians had to live as refugees in other Arab countries. Additionally, more than 75% of the land belonged to

The Official Languages Act is an act that is also established by Pierre Elliott Trudeau and significantly transitioned Canada effectively. The Official Languages Act is a law that was established by the government in which gives both French and English Canadians equal value in Canada. It allows both the English and French languages to be officially spoken in Canada. The Official Languages Act also gives citizens the right to express their culture freely. “It is vital to me that [the constitution] does give protection to the kind of linguistic equality that this government has put into the statutes (The Official Languages Act.).” The Canadian Constitution Act accepts the Official Languages Act which makes it a part of the Canadian Charter

The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the most long-term, pressing, and largely confounding social, political, and national quandaries of our age. Since we have been moving with surprising velocity into the vast horizons of globalization, the conflict has built up tremendous momentum and has called into question the adequacy of our current attempts at coming to a peaceful resolution that can simultaneously and successfully address both sides of the struggle. The purpose of this paper has been to understand the prospect of a two-state nation solution for Israel and Palestine. The discussion arises a retrospective view of the context behind the present analysis. We begin with a discourse that informs the reader of the historical narrative between the Jewish inhabitants of Israel and the Palestinians who also seek to live in the lands which comprise Israel. At the forefront of the discussion are some key issues such as trends in Israeli settlement expansion over time, the manner in which these settlements create political challenges towards the prospect of a two-state solution, and the fragmentation of power within Palestinian political parties which inhibit the opportunity for proper negotiations amongst the two parties. Finally, we delve into a discussion on nationalism, it’s importance in the discussion of a two-state solution, and the challenges posed when trying to formulate US Foreign Policy towards the matter.

The speed of speech in different parts of Canada could be a problem for people who speak English as a second language or non-native as she said. In her essay “Newfoundlandese, If You Please,” Diane Mooney was discuss the issue of having different dialects which might be harder to understand. She explain the way of speaking in Newfoundland where she live by saying that may be a return to the roots of the natives Catholic-Irish who has very unique dialects. She also noticed that religious backgrounds could be reason too. Mooney's essay describes how hard could be to the listener when he or she listen to this mixed of Irish, English, British and French backgrounds and whether if he or she is capable to understand it. She also give some examples

Although Tremblay talks about the American culture’s influence on Canada as a whole, his main concern in this article is Quebec, which is in a separate league than the rest of Canada due to its different linguistics. Tremblay

Between 1976 and 1981, nearly 20% of Quebec's Anglophones left the Province. 25% of this group were aged 20 - 34. As well, a number of head offices moved West, complaining of high taxes, language legislation etc. This, of course, had the effect of reducing the relative importance of the English-speaking population.

Before anyone can comprehend the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one must understand the theory of Zionism. Theodor Herzl was the first Jew to have the idea of creating Israel. He was a witness of the Dreyfus affair, in which a Jewish officer was accused of treason, solely because he was Jewish. Herzl also witnessed mobs of people shouting “Death to the Jews”. This was the last straw for Herzl. Herzl decided that there needed to be a change so he made it one of his life goals to create a successful movement in which Jews founded a Jewish state. One of his main arguments was that discrimination against Jews could be eliminated if they had their own Jewish State, and so modern Zionism was formed. The idea of modern Zionism is so pertinent to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because much of the reason for Israel becoming a Jewish state is behind the fact that Jews were perpetrated throughout the years before Zionism even came into play of the situation.

This book contains several volumes about the Aboriginal languages spoken in Quebec. It demonstrates how the Quebec government has initiated policies on the languages in comparison with the Canadian federal government. Since both Quebec and NWT share some common aboriginal languages such as Inuktitut and Cree I would like to compare and contrast both the Quebec and NWT’s language planning fields as one is the largest province in Canada and the other is a territory with lower amount of language speakers than Quebec. Also, the book argues that standardizing the Quebec aboriginal languages is needed, as there are three different language families in nine languages that construct huge complexities across dialects, writings and grammatical systems.

Considering this “It is also not unusual that one community should be the majority within a nation and seek to maintain that status” (Mitchell) the status of the pure Jewish society because “The Jewish people are a nation with a shared origin, religion, culture, language, and history”.( Mitchell). Meaning each individual Jewish person is held close by the community and the society that they live in. In other words the Israel should be a state itself with the addition of Palestine because of the Jewish society and the people Jewish that need to maintain the status of having a Jewish state.

Before a discourse of the specified topic can be laid out, definitions of a few terms must be distinguished. Firstly, nationalism and patriotism are two distinctly different concepts that are often used interchangeably to represent a similar school of thought. By no means, are they mutually exclusive or unrelated ideologies, but nationalism and patriotism differ in their approaches to expressing love for one’s country, respectively. These definitions can be best understood on the shoulders of essayist and drama critic, Sydney J. Harris, “The Difference Between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility while the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to a war (Harris, 1953).” While the latter definition may be a bit extreme, the general impression is still applicable. An understanding of the dichotomy between nationalism and patriotism, and how

The conflict between Israel and Palestine is just one of the many facets that have shaped modern day politics in the Middle East. It is a conflict rooted in generations of violence, discrimination and prejudice that is complicated by a history older than any of the modern day superpowers. Ever since the creation of the state of Israel by the 1947 UN partition of Palestine

If the Palestinian people outnumbered the Jewish people by double the population, it’s not very fair or negotiable that half of the land should belong to the Jews. In “The 1948 War” it shows the United Nations partition plan of the 1947 and how it devastated the Arabs. “The Jewish state included 51 percent of Palestine, the Arab state 44 percent, and Jerusalem 5 percent. The Jews rejoiced over the creation of a state, while the Arabs expressed outrage at the division of their homeland.” Even when the Palestinian people clearly outnumbered the Jewish people by double the number, the plan was to divide the two into a two state country where it resulted in the Jews receiving more land than the Arabs. The land at the time, belonged to the Arabs and when they were letting in Jewish refugees, they didn’t really expect them to take over half of their land. Even though the Arabs wanted to go to war and lost, it’s still unnecessary for the Jewish people to own more than half of the country. It should be split into a ratio based on their population size, which is 30 percent Jewish state, 60 percent Arab state, and 10 percent administered international zone of Jerusalem closely monitored by the United Nations. This is the most logical and fair way for both states to receive the land they want, and they should be able to visit each other's land for religious

Since the early 20th Century, Israelis and Palestinians have been fighting over the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. With the assumption that Palestine is a state to facilitate discussion, this report sketches out the most significant elements of the conflict on the three levels defined by Kenneth Waltz, and applies the Realist theory of international relations (IR) to the “Two-State” solution.

And since they would become two different states they would not need to spend as much money on new military weaponry and defense systems because conflict would no longer be something that they would be focused on, and the money they could have used for weaponry and defense systems could used more efficiently, for instance that money that was used can now be used to improve and repair infrastructure that was destroyed during the conflict. ²Economic opportunities will arise for both states as it encourage expats who left Palestine and Israel because of the war, to return back and help build the economies of both these states. In addition it will also increase the tourism industry for both these states as since the conflict would have hopefully ended, it will be safe for people from other countries to come to Israel and Palestine as both these states have a variety of religious and historical sites as well as entertainment opportunities. Social benefits that could come of the two-state solution are