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Mary Leader (Vesey)
Professor: Michael Bell
ENGLISH 701
9 September 2015
Essay Paper 1

Thesis Title

Using these two articles, the Kenyan Malik articles, “Let Them Die, and Emilo Gutierrez,

“My Bilingualism,” I will be supporting both articles, with statements about children

being left at school because they are bilingual, and why languages should not die. Why

we should preserve the languages dying, and the benefits in learning two languages.

In Kenyan Malik’s article, he says, “There are 6000 languages in the world today, and

that by the year 3000, there will be 600. He says languages die because people die.

Malik, also states, that each nation speaks in the manner it thinks. For instance, if we

live in France, the common language is French. If we lived in China the common

language spoken, is Chinese, if we lived in Japan, the common language spoken is

Japanese. And in my theory, opinion, if we do no preserve the language, there will be

less for bilingual teachers and bilingual schools.

Here is a false dilemma, fallacies Malik uses. Malik, says, “A language spoken by one

person, or a few hundred, is not a language at all.” It is a private conceit, like a child’s

secret code. This author is basis. The whole point of a language is to enable

communication. Languages, can be saved, through books, and the internet. In Maliks

article, he quotes, from Enoch Powell and he says, “Languages preservers may be

acting on the best of intentions, but they are treading on dangerous ground, and they Leader 2 carry with them some unpalatable fellow-travellers.

In Malik’s article, the rhetorical choices, he uses are:

1. He referenced to history, by mentioning Holocuast, he thinks everyone should