I was born the eldest of five children and raised in the Bible Belt. My mother was Jewish and my father was a gentile. During my adolescent years, I became aware that Jews were not well received in the Deep South. I learned that if you were Jewish, it was best not to draw attention to the fact.
My mother could trace her roots back to a Northern province of Prussia called Bromberg. Her family later immigrated to Germany, where tragically she lost most of them in the death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Those who escaped the Holocaust would later sail to America and make landfall in Galveston, Texas. They chose the Gulf Coast of Texas hoping to draw as little attention as possible as they became full-fledged Americans. They achieved their goal of assimilation to the point that, by the time my mother was born, little of her Jewish tradition remained intact. That lack of connection to her Jewish roots pre-empted any doubts she might have about marrying a gentile. But things took a curious turn when she decided to marry a Catholic.
In order for her to marry my father, my mother had to sign a contract with the Roman Catholic Church stating that any children born of their union would be raised Catholic. Nothing Jewish was to be allowed or spoken of in the family. She signed the agreement.
Our own familial brand of antiSemitism was always prevalent. By the age of four, I began associating my maternal grandfather's visits with breakfasts of bacon, ham and sausage. It was the only time my father would cook all three for breakfast. My grandfather would come in, kiss us all and excuse himself to go for a walk. Sometimes, I was lucky enough to join him. Those walks were full of conversations about Judaism. At the time, I could not fathom what he was sharing with me. I just thought he was getting old and confused.
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It shows people moving westward bringing everything with them. This shows that they started expanding the country westward. Then the fact that the bulls are running away from the horses shows that in order to take control, we tried to push out all the animal and people that lived in the land we wanted in the process. The huge angel trampling things shows that we didn't really care what we destroyed as long as we got what we wanted, and because we thought we were right
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America's support of Cuba's struggle against the Spanish rule
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The mysterious explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor.
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The thick jungle and vegetation hinder american forces from using their material advantage of tanks and other sorts of ground combat vechiles. That's why the US used agent orange to try and clear vegetation and jungle so the vietcong couldn't use it as places to hide and retreat to when ambushing American troops
The main cause of the rise of caudillos in Mexico was wide-spread political disorder and a lack of a sufficient power structure following revolutions, since these military leaders used this lack of order to seize power.
