Center Of Acceptance Speech By Elie Wiesel

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When an individual is in danger and his or her life is at risk,everything else surrounding him or her does become irrelevant. People are scared of the differences among other human beings and find it peculiar. For that reason, those people become a great danger to the others thoughts and become the center of attention. For example, like Elie Wiesel said in his acceptance speech, an individual’s surrounding become irrelevant when facing a conflict and only then, it becomes the center of attention.

Different kinds of tragedies are happening all around the world that make us be afraid of humanity. For instance,World War II, the war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 that brought several conflicts to the nation. It was the most widespread war

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