America and Its Citizens Negatives Regarding America and Its Citizens What defines America? If you had to provide a description for the United States, what would it look like? What defines our country and the people that live in it? As we kick off our study of American literature, we need to think about how we would answer these two questions. View the following images and think about these two questions. As you study the images, keep a chart like the one below that notes both positives and negatives about our country. Positives Regarding America and Its Citizens Negatives Regarding America and Its Citizens

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