Answer & Explanation:
Unarguably, Corona virus will have a long lasting effect on humanity. For some it will be positive while others will be negative. On a personal note, I choose to see the opportunity it created for me especially in the last two months.
I remember vividly how before the complete lockdown of the economy I had a shallow perspective on life especially as it concerns my career. I paid no attention to the use of technology and relied fully on my knowledge in my field of study.
However, the lockdown of the economy made me a changed individual as I was able to see reality, have a rethink on my life and grab an opportunity of a life time. I embraced technology, developed myself by enrolling in an ICT online program.
Furthermore, as a result of the opportunity I got, I became more relevant at my place of employment as my productive and speed of delivery improved.
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.
Answer:
The author's main argument in his essay was to tell how to develop scientific claims reaching to it's final conclusion rather than fascinating claims.
Explanation:
'Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs' is an essay written by Stephen Jay Gould, a Professor of Geology at Harvard University.
In his essay he explains how dinosaurs extinction took place by elaborating the three elements– sex, drugs, and disaster. By detailing each and every aspects, Gould presents how a good scientific proposal is elaborated. He starts his essay by defining science and how conclusions are reached through series of consequences and not by fascination. Then he goes on the explain his points and reaching the conclusion of his thesis.
Therefore, the main argument by Gould in this essay was to educate his readers how to develop scientific claims reaching to it's final conclusion rather than fascinating claims.
