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A 4 page discussion of how each of these
men viewed wealth and possessions. The author discusses how each envisioned wealth and possessions should be obtained, what wealth revealed about its possessor, and what responsibilities and obligations the wealthy must recognize toward individuals and communities. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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The manner in which Americans view wealth has varied considerably throughout history. The Frenchman Michel Guillaume Jean de Cr?vecoeur (author of the "American Farmer"), for
example, only lived in the Americas for a relatively short period of time. To him wealth was tied with the vast resources that he saw in the Americas.
He ventured out into the American "wilderness" seeking a means of bringing that wilderness into hand, instilling some semblance of order and productivity. Cr?vecoeurs true desire was to identify
a means of effecting change; change that in essence would be effected for the purpose of amassing wealth. Wealth and personal possessions were viewed as important and Crevecoeur saw
land as a way to acquire them. To him wealth and personal possessions revealed an individual who was at a greater societal level than those without such possessions.
Cr?vecoeur reflected that the primary distinction between being an American and a citizen of England was the fact that in America the land belonged to the commoner and wealthy alike.
In the continent of his birth, on the other hand, land was owned and controlled by the great lords. The commoner was forced into a position of submission
by this fact in Europe. Cr?vecoeur realized immediately that in America land ownership translated into a better societal footing. He wrote: "We are all animated with the
spirit of industry, which is unfettered and unrestrained, because each person works for himself". Crevecoeur declared that even those of the most menial rank in European society could become
powerful in American society: "From nothing to start into being; from a servant to the rank of master; from being the slave of some despotic prince to become a
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