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    You Have to Be Carefully Taught: My Memoirs
    You Have to Be Carefully Taught: My Memoirs
    You Have to Be Carefully Taught: My Memoirs
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    You Have to Be Carefully Taught: My Memoirs

    By Rena Tieser

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    Throughout her lifetime, author Rena Tieser was subjected to prejudice and bias as a woman, an Italian, and a Roman Catholic. In You Have to Be Carefully Taught, she shares her experiences and discusses how these trials helped her develop an abundance of inner strength.

    In this memoir, Tieser narrates her story against the backdrop of the discrimination she bore firsthand. Beginning with her birth in 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to her childhood and school years; to high school and college; and to marriage and family, You Have to Be Carefully Taught describes what it was like to be judged based on her gender, religion, and heritage.

    Tieser tells how her life revolved around significant incidents of prejudice and how she overcame the obstacles. It shows how this shaped her life, attitude, dreams, and goals. You Have to Be Carefully Taught communicates the downfalls of judging one another and encourages a spirit of tolerance in all to be better people.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateApr 12, 2013
    ISBN9781475981124
    You Have to Be Carefully Taught: My Memoirs
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    Rena Tieser

    Rena Tieser lives in Springfield, Pennsylvania. This is her debut book.

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      You Have to Be Carefully Taught - Rena Tieser

      Copyright © 2013 Rena Tieser

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-8111-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-8112-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013904766

      iUniverse rev. date: 3/28/2013

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      CHAPTER 1   You Can’t Be Italian

      CHAPTER 2   Relocating to Poughkeepsie

      CHAPTER 3   Picking Apples

      CHAPTER 4   Hopes of Becoming a Lawyer

      CHAPTER 5   Life-Changing Surprises

      CHAPTER 6   Happiness and Then Great Sadness

      CHAPTER 7   Plans for Goals in Life

      CHAPTER 8    A Step in Planning a New Life

      CHAPTER 9   Living in Springfield

      CHAPTER 10   Facing My Own Prejudice

      CHAPTER 11   Cutting Down Trees

      CHAPTER 12   Looking in the Mirror

      I dedicate my book to my dear friend Patricia Baxter Petralia. Without her urging and belief in me, I would not have attempted to write this book. When I received this lovely Ode to Rena on my eighty-fifth birthday, I felt that time was fleeting and that if I didn’t write this book, I never would.

      Ode to Rena (From Pat)

      My friend Rena,

      An ethereal beauty,

      A movie star too,

      An Italian mama,

      And a great cook too,

      A devoted Catholic,

      Has a strong sense of right and wrong

      That is lasting her whole life long,

      A world traveler and master gardener too.

      An enthusiastic participant in life,

      She does more than I ever do,

      A writer with depth of feelings.

      She is true to herself

      And her family too.

      Everyone loves Rena, and you can see why;

      She is the real deal—the apple of our eye.

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