Funding for Pakistan and Culture Essay -- Argumentative Persuasive Cul

Funding for Pakistan and CultureEmancipation from the bondage of soil is not freedom for the tree, Rabindranath Tagore, A Bengali poet from the early part of the Twentieth CenturyHistory The history of Pakistan as a country is a fairly short one. Pakistan was created and carved out of the country of India in 1947 when the 200-year-old Britain rule of India came to an end and a plan was made to return the continent back to local rule. There was a movement at the clock time led by the renowned poet Muhammad Iqbal and a prominent politician named Muhammad Ali Jinnah to create a country on the Indian Sub-continent that would be a nation for the Islamic people of the region. Pakistan was created out of the two predominantly Muslim regions in the north west and the east, creating East and West Pakistan. A war was fought in 1971 in which the east region split away from the western region, creating two separate nations, Bangladesh and Pakistan. As is often the case with citizens o f a new country, there is a lot of field self-esteem among Pakistanis. Most do not lose their language or deny what ethnicity they belong to as I defend seen in some Mexican American groups. Some Pakistani people I have known who were born here and have never even been to Pakistan still have pride in customs, clothing, language and religion. Language Development The Indian Subcontinent is a region of provinces where the people of each province speak a local language and have customs different from all other provinces. When the British established rule over the entire continent, it became apparent that they could not unit the country unless there was a language everyone could speak in common. The story is that the British actually in... ...ural Literacy , Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Hirsch, E.D., Jr., Cultural Literacy, What Every American Needs to Know , Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Immigrants and Their Educational Attainment Some Facts and Findings, Schwarz, Wendy, ERIC abstrac t ED402398, Nov. 1996 Language-Minority Student Achievement and Program Effectiveness, Thomas, Dr. Wayne p. And Dr. Virginia Collier, NABE News Vol. 19, May 1, 1996 Secondary Newcomer Programs Helping Recent Immigrants Prepare for School Success,Short, Deborah J., ERIC Database ED419385, 1998. Trends in K-12 Social Studies, Risinger, C. Frederick, ERIC Digest ED351278, Oct. 1992 Two-Way Bilingual Education Programs in Practice A National and Local Perspective, ERIC Digest, ED379915, Dec. 1994 You have my permission to publish this study on the Internet. Michele_Iqbalfastinet.net