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I agree with what Sarah said in our class discussion that we have a lot of agency over how we respond. While we may feel that we have free will and choice as to many decisions in our lives, what we really have is the ability to respond to our surroundings and choose from choices made for us by other people and by nature. Deanna reflects that it didn't matter what she chose because it's true-- she could only respond to other choices around her. She couldn't choose for Eddie Bondo to stay or go and she couldn't choose whether those baby birds would live or not, she could only reflect and make decisions in her life around that because, as she says, creatures "came and went" and "they would go their own ways, of their own accord". In the case of the election today, we can respond to the choices made in our environment as to who we want to be President. We can't literally choose our president, but we can decide from the candidates who we like the best and go from there.