concentration camp. this is about two hours. . ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome you to today s presentation. let me welcome the former inmates and the survivors. let me welcome all the english guests from all over the world with representives of churches and religious communities and including representatives of the jewish communities and representatives of the roma. now i am asking the president of the republican of poland for his address. today s ceremony s under his patronage. ladies and gentlemen, and especially you who went through this all the distinguished guests we are in this life where our civilization was down in the place where the plans to destroyed men of their dignity was systematically executed where german nazis launched in the sea and a human being was reduced to a number. ten years ago at the shore, here they kept my family in prison and they burned everyone. here, they took my name away and they gave me the number. never again was i myself. i b
as a way to highlight the transformation. yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle tom s cabin, as a framework exploring some of the themes of the displacement of god, the masculinization, this artifacts of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with rebecca harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. so the text itself stays the , same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. so how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. i should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. david and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that? is that whit
mary was always at home. married was helping her mother. and then when mary got married, elizabeth was not, well, for a while when the parents were all right, elizabeth left and live with john and abigail, but when the parents got sick which was quite sync up and then she had to be home taking care of them. and the grandmother was gone by then. [inaudible] going to believe this but best time to start to set a new example for the youth to follow speak with all, what time in life? yes. that s interesting. you mean what time in childhood? i would say childhood. i think all the different stages matter. i mean, with my knowledge of children, and you make one impact before they are six or 10 or whatever, and then when they re in adolescents they think we have forgotten everything and later on you were surprised that they seem to remember some. i think they did the best that they could as parents. i think they were strong parents, and some of them turned out well and some of
behalf of the center and the new york office i would like to welcome you all here for what i think is a momentous and landmark event for us, an evening honoring the launch of david brion davis s new book. i have a couple of acknowledgments and a brief introduction and then we will start the program an alternate over to the speaker. i would like to begin first of all but sending my thanks to my colleague and friend dr. bragman who is the person who arranged or this event that brought dr. davis in the center together i would also like to thank michelle from the publishers of the book. she is the gilda lerman institute for the help of operation in arranging this evening. i also would like to very much welcome and recognize alan and francis members of the board of trustees who have taken their time to come here this evening as well. thank you for that. a few brief words of introduction. one of the reasons i was so glad and jumped jump at this opportunity was because this work and
will the president respond? varney and company is about to begin. stuart: this is a very big day on wall street, 257 points, straight up, plenty of earnings reports, more of the coming out after the bell . we will see about that later. let s get this, 256 points hi, the dow is at 16,700. here are the names fuelling the dow rallied. caterpillar made a lot of money last quarter, caterpillar s up $5. 3 m s sales were up almost 4%. that is not huge but its business will keep growing through the next year. is up $8. transportation sector of very big winner. two railroad stocks hitting all-time highs, union pacific and csx. check more transportation stocks, alaska air, jetblue, writer all with big gains, 19 of the 20 stocks in the index are up. big rally. look at the price of oil, dropped to $80 a barrel yesterday backing up to $81.79 today. the real story for energy is the price of gasoline, $3.07 a gallon. that is your national average. 15 states in the $2 club. the price of