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.
<span>It means that all eligible citizens have the right to participate, either directly or indirectly, in making the decisions that affect them.</span>
As it was an offense to write supporting the French Revolution, Wordsworth used his creativity to use figurative language and metaphors in order to disguise his true opinions on the issue.Because he was suspected of being some kind of French spy, he defended social justice and freedom of thought in ways only his readers and colleagues would understand.He described the revolution as fair because it was a scream for liberties people did not have.He also used words for showing his disapproval of the British attitude against the revolution.He mentioned the multitudes being oppressed, principles not taken into account and also said that these issues woke the anger of people ,who for obvious reasons reacted violently
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- There are plenty of giraffes and wild asses on the islands.
- The wild boars on the island are as big as buffaloes, with 14 lb tusks.
- The gryphon birds are monstrous in size.
The Travels of Marco Polo is a 13th-century chronicle written down by Rustichello da Pisa. It retells the stories of Marco Polo regarding his travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295. There is some debate over the authenticity of the fabulous stories. However, the consensus is that the stories are, for the most part, accurate depictions of Asia during the Middle Ages.
