Hope, Despair and Memory: Compare and Contrast
Hope, Despair and Memory: Compare and Contrast
Elie Wiesel, Night
It's pretty likely if you know of Elie Wiesel, you were introduced to him through this book.Night (not surprisingly, given its title) is an incredibly dark book. In recounting Elie's experiences du...
Oscar Arias Sanchez, Nobel Acceptance Speech, 1987
A year after Elie Wiesel took the award, the president of Costa Rica won the Nobel Peace Prize for trying to broker peace in Central America, during a time where the Reagan administration was fundi...
Ronald Reagan, "Memorial Day Speech," 1986
In the same year as Elie Wiesel, ol' Ronnie Reagan also gave a speech about the necessity of peace in the world.But, you probably figured that, given the speaker, it was pretty different.For one th...
Elie Wiesel, "50 Year Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz Speech," 1995
Nine years later, Elie Wiesel delivered a memorial speech at the grounds of Auschwitz concentration camp that carried much of the same spirit of the "Hope, Despair and Memory" speech. The central p...