https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm By Quinn Ackman en-us 2018-03-18 18:15:27 UTC 2025-12-22 18:46:01 UTC hello@padlet.com qaackman https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243229794 Elie Wiesel

Objective Job: Author, Professor

Past Experience: 

Author of award winning book “Night” 

Studied literature, philosophy and psychology at the Sorbonne (University of Paris)

Professor of religion and philosophy at Boston University

Chairman of US Holocaust Memorial Council from 1978 to 1986

Founder of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

Survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camps

Awards and Honorable Mention:

Nobel Peace Prize, 1986

Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1992

Congressional Gold Medal, 1984

Honorary Knighthood of the United Kingdom, 2006

Jabotinsky Medal, State of Israel, 1980

National Humanities Medal, 2009

More than 90 honorary degrees from colleges worldwide

]]> 2018-03-18 18:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243229794 qaackman https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243236954 2018-03-18 19:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243236954 qaackman https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243241734 2018-03-18 19:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243241734 qaackman https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243242506 I won't Let Go - The lyrics detail a friendship and a struggle that is supported through that friendship. Similar to Elie's struggle with killing John Dawson and how his friends talk through it with him.
Count on Me - Though this song has a much more light and playful theme than Dawn, it still shows how relationships with those around can help one in a tough situation.
Lean On Me - This song sums up the final 2 chapters of Dawn, detailing the struggle Elie was going through inside his own mind and how he used Illana as a crutch to communicate. 
Stand By Me - Similar to lean On Me, Stand By Me details how strong Elie is able to be, knowing he has the support of those around him. 
You'll Never Walk Alone - This song relates to Elie's past, which is never forgotten. The song reminds to walk on, with hope in his heart, and he'll never walk alone.
How to Save a Life - Relates to his family and past friends and how they are all gone now. He has lost them, but they stick with him everywhere he goes. 
Knocking On Heaven's Door - His relationship with death is discovered and he feels close to it at all times.
Ready To Die - Its all in the title. Elie feels if he murders, then his current body and self will be gone, replaced by something unknown. 
Many Men - Details how 50 escapes death, though there are many that want him dead. This is similar to Elie's time in the concentration camps, as well as his time working as a terrorist. 
Coldest Winter - Kanye's struggle with loss relates directly to Elie's struggle dealing with all those he loved that he now knows to be dead. These bodies follow him everywhere he goes until the moment he kills John Dawson. ]]> 2018-03-18 19:44:44 UTC https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243242506 qaackman https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243247459 Dawn By Elie Wiesel
Fiction
Characters- Elisha, Gad, Joab, Gideon, Illana, John Dawson, David Ben Mosche
The book details a fictional story about a post-Holocaust Israeli terrorist group. Though the book is fiction, the main character, Elisha, is essentially just an extension of the author, Elie Wiesel. In the book, Elisha is recruited to join a terrorist group whose mission is to free the Jews from the English-occupied Israel.  The conflict between the Jews and the English came down to two hostages. Both side of the conflict have a hostage of the other, and neither wishes to be seen as weak by giving up the hostage. When both the English and the Jews sentence their hostages to death, Elisha is the one picked to execute the Englishman, John Dawson. Elisha really struggles with this, unsure of whether or not he will be able to do this, and how to prepare himself. He struggles with letting himself become a murderer, but justifies it as an act that is for a cause greater than he. The book circles around his internal struggle, eventually leading to the inevitable murder of John Dawson.
I liked how Elisha's internal struggle is shown throughput the book, and how real his thoughts are. I didn't like the vagueness of the character. Elisha is a character with no background information provided, and no current information provided. He is simply an extension of Elie Wiesel, which can only be known if one had read the first book in the trilogy, Night. This is why the resume is done from the perspective of Elie Wiesel, because Elisha is nothing but a fictional extension of Elie's life. ]]> 2018-03-18 20:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/qaackman/ifxfpunjb5zm/wish/243247459