Question

11. Discuss as a group the different aspects of being American. Then write a definition of the term

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povertyProcured:gainedMotives:reasonsMetamorphosis:change1In this great American asylum, the poor of Europe have by some meansmet together, and in consequence of various causes; to what purpose, should they ask oneanother, what countrymen they are? Alas, two thirds of them had no country. Can awretch who wanders about, who works and starves, whose life is a continual scene ofsore affliction or pinchingpenury; can that man call England or any other kingdom hiscountry? A country that had no bread for him, whose fieldsprocuredhim no harvest,who met with nothing but the frowns of the rich, the severity of the laws, with jails andpunishments; who owned not a single foot of the extensive surface of this planet? No!Urged by a variety ofmotives, here they came. Everything has tended to regeneratethem; new laws, a new mode of living, a new social system; here they are becomemen: in Europe they were as so many useless plants, wanting vegetative mould, andrefreshing showers; they withered, and were mowed down by want, hunger, ❤