Respond to the following prompt. Your response should be in paragraph form, use proper grammar and mechanics, be your own, personal opinion, and be at least three paragraphs long. The federal minimum wage is a hot-button issue with every election. What is your opinion on raising the dollar amount? How would businesses deal with having to pay employees more per hour? In what ways could this affect local economies, and would this motivate more people to seek employment?

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.