Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel, gave this impassioned speech in the East Room of the White House on April 12, 1999, as part of the Millennium Lecture series, hosted by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the summer of 1944, as a teenager in Hungary, Elie Wiesel, along with his father, mother and sisters, were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz extermination camp in occupied Poland. Upon arrival there, Wiesel and his father were selected by SS Dr. Josef Mengele for slave labor and wound up at the nearby Buna rubber factory. Daily life included starvation rations of soup and bread, brutal discipline, and a constant struggle against overwhelming despair. At one point, young Wiesel received 25 lashes of the whip for a minor infraction. In January 1945, as the Russian Army drew near, Wiesel and his father were hurriedly evacuated from Auschwitz by a forced march to Gleiwitz and then via an open train car to Buchenwald in Germany, where his father, mother, and a younger sister eventually died. Wiesel was liberated by American troops in April 1945. After the war, he moved to Paris and became a journalist then later settled in New York. Since 1976, he has been Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. He has received numerous awards and honors including the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was also the Founding Chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial. Wiesel has written over 40 books including Night, a harrowing chronicle of his Holocaust experience, first published in 1960. At the White House lecture, Wiesel was introduced by Hillary Clinton who stated, "It was more than a year ago that I asked Elie if he would be willing to participate in these Millennium Lectures...I never could have imagined that when the time finally came for him to stand in this spot and to reflect on the past century and the future to come, that we would be seeing children in Kosovo crowded into trains, separated from families, separated from their homes, robbed of their childhoods, their memories, their humanity.
To inflict great stress on means that dog is scaring the cat.
<h3>What is harrow?</h3>
Harrow can be described as the term that is used in the description of distress as well as trouble . It can be used to explains the situation of the tormenting nature of different things.
However in Agriculture, harrow can be described as the farm implement that serves the purpose of surface tillage and the service is been used after the ploughing for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil.
Ptolemy believed in the Geocentric theory, the theory that everything in the universe revolved around the Earth (the root Geo is indicative of Earth). Copernicus believed in the theory of Heliocentrism, the theory that everything revolved around the Sun (the root Helio is indicative of Sun).
*neither are accurate based on modern scientific knowledge, however Copernicus's was closest to being factual*
American poet John Godfrey Saxe creating his own version as a poem, with a final verse that explains that the elephant is a metaphor for God, and the various blind men represent religions that disagree on something no one has fully experienced.
In "The Alchemist," by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, Andalusian shepherd boy Santiago prefers to keep his jacket for the reason that in the south of Spain the temperature changes from extremely hot during the day to very cold at night. Besides, the jacket is a representation of his willingness to change and see the world during his journey to Egypt, which has to do with the central theme of the novel: readiness to change.
