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.
I believe that your correct answer would be "This sentence shows Elion's determination and commitment to learn."
The reason why I say this is because Elion wanted to be a "biochemistry". But she could not because of her requirement's are not that great. She took many classes and so on and still could not qualify.She needed to learn to have determination.she didn't earn a doctorate so the 1st sentence is false,
she didn't get denied going to any schools so the 3rd one is also false.
she earned her degree at the first college so the 4th one is also false.
the correct answer should be:
This sentence shows Elion's determination and commitment to learn.
b) She felt entitled to riches because of her looks.
Explanation:
Madame Loisel, as can be inferred from the paragraph, is not born in a wealthy family, but certainly possesses great beauty and charm. The statement, <em>"She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station;" </em>indicates her dissatisfaction with her humble situation, the sorrow of which she feels as though it were a step-down from a "higher-station."
Here, "higher-station" cannot be a major change in her financial situation after marriage, because she was born in a family of clerks and subsequently married a clerk. It, however, suggests that she felt that she was entitled to more than what she got, and that her not being able to dress well, or have luxury in a way, was like a step-down from what she deserved because of how she looked.
<span>I am assured that option ‘’D. Jenny and Sam’s wedding was joyful.’’ of course is the right one, because according to the basic grammar rules, when we have an example where the main object ( the wedding) belongs to several pronouns (Jenny and Sam), we need to put possessive "s" ONLY after the last pronoun (in that case after the second).<span> </span></span>
