...have proclaimed this, Elie Wiesel is among the most qualified. As a jew held in several different concentration camps during World WarⅡ, injustice is all he faces; but he never surrenders to the twisted forces acting upon him. Elie Wiesel expresses the lessons of justice versus apathy, decision making, and judgment in the struggles of religious scrutiny and concentration camps in his memoir Night. The largest obstacle faced by jews during World WarⅡis injustice. People are excellent at being apathetic, but it does no help at the gate of God-the jews’ destination in sight. When being apathetic rather than just, you become emotionally driven rather than spiritually led. Moishe the Beadle told of all the horrible things happening to jews, and it passed off as no big deal as people figured that Moishe was crazy. Even Elie, being a close friend of his, could not wrap his mind around what...
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...Night Essay Prompt 1 Why did Elie Wiesel choose to rename the book “Night” rather than keep the previous title “The World Remained Silent” for his story of his Holocaust experience? The both fit the book well but Night has a more figurative meaning compared to “The World Remained Silent” which is very literal and you don’t have to really think about why the title is what it is. I think Night is a much better choice of a title because it has multiple meanings of what it could be and the reader can decide and choose their own interpretation on it rather than having a set meaning which removes a lot of the effect of having a title that the reader can create their own meaning for and have it mean something to them rather than it being just a title....
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...Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of “Night”, was deported along with his family to an extermination camp in 1944 where they endured hardships ranging from slavery to starvation. On April 12, 1999, in Washington, D.C., Wiesel presents his speech, “The Perils of Indifference” to President Clinton, his First Lady, White House Officials, and the American people. Referring to the tragic events of the twentieth century, Wiesel lectures on the threat that “indifference” poses, and discusses his hopes for a better future. Leading the speech, the author begins with an anecdote of his childhood, the liberation of Buchenwald. He mentioned the memories of the american soldier’s compassion and rage towards the victim’s situation during the...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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