Agency: I need to clarify because online dictionaries are lousy at this word and steering people in the wrong direction for their V posts this week.
Agency is related to action, power, movement, initiative. Here are a few quotes using it in the way that it relates to our class.
"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."
--Fred Thompson
"Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act."
--Rebecca Solnit
"If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character."
--Matthew Simpson
"I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that."
--Aleksandar Hemon
"As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift."
--David O. McKay
For your Vocab Blog this week, think about the way that you had/have agency or are prompted to take agency, especially in the readings/activities from this week.
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