Analysis Of Schuman's Speech

1.If you were stripped of your freedom and individuality to be held in a camp waiting to die would you feel indifferent. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Boston University Professor, presented a speech as part of the Millennium Lecture Series at the White House on April 12, 1999 2.(Wiesel 221). President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton hosted the formal event. Numerous government officials from a wide order of public, private and foreign office attended the event 2.(Wiesel 221). Although Elie Wiesel designed his speech to persuade, it actually felt somewhat outside from its original intended purpose, as being more different.

Mexico is considered as a collectivistic society. Loyalty in this culture is paramount which meaning that Mexican culture tendency have a long-term commitment to their group of people meaning extended family and extended relationships. Mexican cultures over-rides over most other societal rules and regulations. With the strong relationships among this culture everyone will take accountability for their fellow member of their group.

Germany was split into zones of occupation and the Cold War was brewing. For these reasons and many more, certain officials wanted to create a better sense of unity in Europe. In 1957, with the Treaty of Rome, the European Economic Committee (EEC) was formed. Officials

In Elie Wiesel's speech he touches on the topics of the causes, effects, and lessons from the holocaust, our duties as a human being, and finally how we can achieve peace for ourselves and everyone around the globe. In paragraph eight he states that, “…the world did know and remain silent.” Wiesel is referring to the general public of Germany as a whole. Wiesel also says that, “And action is the only remedy to indifference: the most insidious danger of all.” Which simply says by not doing anything this was allowed to happen. You can link that to how German citizens not spreading the word or opposed Hitler. How was Hitler so effective in getting all the Jew and other “undesirables”? German citizens would point the authorities to the Jews, homosexuals,

World War 2 was a tragedy for everyone and it will always be remembered. We all hope that this part of history never repeats itself. The summer of 1944 Elie Wiesel and his family was taken by Nazis. They all got transferred in a train car to Buchenwald where his family died on the the way there. Then in the year 1945, American soldiers saved his life. He was just a small boy who did not understand english but, was terrified of what might come next. He thought he was never gonna feel joy again but years later, when he was an old man, he would finally understand and was grateful for what they did.

On the 12th of April, in the year 1999, Elie Wiesel gave a speech at the White House. Several members of congress, President Clinton, and the First Lady, Hillary Clinton, were present to listen to him. His speech became a powerful testament to the pitfalls and dangers of being indifferent to the sufferings of others. However, Wiesel’s speech was also a very skillful exercise in using rhetoric for persuasion. By using certain wording and striking the right balance of facts and emotions, he was moving the audience in the direction of understanding his point of view. He was moving the audience to not feel sympathy, but actual empathy to the events he was speaking about. To feel the as closely as he felt for these events in history. He acted as judge, jury, disappointed parent and as vengeful deity. In this paper, I will examine key elements of his speech to show that by instilling deep feelings of shame, fear, and even pride at the right moments can inspire people to open their minds to the dangers of ignoring the pleads of help from their fellow man.

On April 12, 1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel delivered a speech in order to inspire the American people to take action in times of human suffering, so that events like the holocaust will never again take place. Through the use of persuasion, word choice, and rhetorical techniques, Wiesel successfully appeals to his audience of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, and the rest of the American public. The main point in his speech is that of indifference and what can come about because of it. In order to define indifference to the audience and persuade them to never be indifferent in the future, Wiesel exclaims it as having no difference. Wiesel also uses descriptions about what may cause indifference; as “a strange and unnatural state in

Figurative language is used to make literature and poetry more interesting. Authors use figurative language to spice up their writing so ideas can be expressed with a new and exciting approach. Figurative language can and should be applied in our creative writing. It allows us and the reader to have fun in the process!

“The representatives in the Congress of Vienna wanted to prevent France’s aggression by surrounding France with stronger nations, restore balance of power, so no country would be a threat to others and restore Europe’s royal families to the thrones they head held before Napoleon’s coquets” (Beck, 239). In order to make the weak nations around France stronger, the former Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Republic were united to form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. “Group of 39 German states were loosely joined as the newly create German confederation, dominate by Austria. Leaders of Europe wanted to weaken France, but also didn’t want to leave it powerless. If they did, the French might rebel to take revenge but if France became weaker and was broken up, another country might become so strong that it would threaten them all. France remained a major but diminished European powers” (Beck, 239). Nevertheless, not all-important decisions were made by the great powers.

The ECSC was set up under the Treaty of Paris in 1951 with 6 countries signing. These countries were France, Italy, Luxemburg, Holland and Belgium. Britain was expected to join the ECSC but this was not the case. Britain at the time had a far superior economy in strength than the rest of its European counterparts and felt the union would only inhibit them Economically.

First he wanted to surround France with strong countries to prevent further aggression by them. Second he wanted to restore a balance of power so that no country would be threatened by another and last he wanted to restore Europe’s royal families to the throne.

The purpose of George Bush’s speech is to justify his future military actions and to unite the Americans by appealing to their emotions. Bush used a variety of emotive language and stylistic devices to express his concern over the incident for the audience.

This reading is very helpful because it highlights the different stages adolescents go through in their preteen years. It also highlights how the gender of a person can really affect how they develop mentally. When children reach the age of “ten to eleven they begin to challenge their assumptions about the world,” their mental development grows alongside their physical development. Girls (or female bodied people) develop physically at a much faster rate than boys (or male bodied people), these sudden changes can become a struggle for everyone in the classroom. For the female bodied people the sudden onset of menstruation changes their lives, the presence of puberty makes female bodied persons emotional sensitivity and volatility increase. The classroom becomes separated naturally due to the noticeable natural changes occurring in female bodied and the lack of changes occurring in male bodied people. Male bodied people observe the changes of female bodied people and stress about when their own change will take place. At the ripe age of 11 girls begin to form exclusive cliques, this can lead to drama as the exclusion can seem cruel in some ways, it is vital for teachers to have a good balance between watching and interfering with these cliques. This is important because the adolescents can grow from the conflicts that emerge within these cliques but if the situation is being handled in a negative manner it is time for the teacher to

     After the tragedies of World War II, European leaders have made striving efforts to prevent such a catastrophic event from occurring on their continent again. The best solution seemed to be highly mechanized cooperation among the highest European powers to assure that future conflict, and perhaps war, could not arise between them. If all the states ran themselves in a manner cooperating with their neighbors, conflict could be avoided. To prevent other nations from not cooperating, treaties and institutions would have to be designed for each area of international interest such as trade, communications, security, and so forth. As the century progressed, more organizations, institutions and associations were