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1) Watch the attached video, and reflect on the theme(s) expressed in Emily Dickinson's poem.

2) Reflect on the following question and answer it thoughtfully: What does it mean to live deliberately, where do you see this lifestyle in the world around you, and how can you choose to respond to change so that you are living deliberately?

3) How does Dickinson's poem relate to the question above?

4) Share about a person in your life that captures Dickinson's illustration of hope and your vision of living deliberately.

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Emily Dickinson's poem, “Hope” is a thing with feathers, conveys themes of joy, which are associated with hope, and themes of despair, which elevate the importance of hope by describing a troublesome scene where hope could have been absent.

I believe that living deliberately implies living with extreme purpose. Every action and word said is intentional, having a desired result. In the world, individuals who live deliberately are extremely cautious, often weighing the outcomes of their actions. In addition, individuals often choose to live deliberately when faced with change. All individuals have the opportunity to react positively or negatively to change. However, being proactive and readily facing the trials associated with change ensure that you are living deliberately.

Dickinson's poem, “Hope” is a thing with feathers, relates to living deliberately because hope drives one’s incentive to live deliberately. Individuals who live deliberately set goals for themselves, always striving to complete them. Individuals can only accomplish their goals if they continue to have hope by believing in themselves. Therefore, living deliberately is unattainable without hope.

My grandfather captures Dickinson's illustration of hope and living deliberately. Through his intense hope and desire to learn, my grandfather was the first person in his family to attend college at the University of Illinois. Later, he taught muscular and anatomy classes at the University of Illinois. However, he deliberately decided to help others by becoming a teacher. My grandfather taught math for over 40 years. When he retired, he did not stop, but continued to work as a substitute teacher.

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To live deliberately means to live with a reason and a purpose, which some people struggle with. The struggle is mostly found in people who have had a lot of chalenges. I see this lifestyle in a lot of my friends, who all have passion for different things. My friends who follow their passions this way don't struggle as much, but also haven't done it for long. However, I don't really know of any one person who I see as going through their life deliberately and has stuck with their passion to make it their lifelong job or goal. The people I see with it are younger and only have made their passion and hopes true for a few years.

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I think that to live deliberately is to do things with reason in order to get an outcome that it wanted and if something isn't wanted, you could find a way to see what you want and making the best out of every situation. One person that I think I could interview is my father because he has told me multiple stories and a recurring thing that I noticed was that he always finds a way to get to where to what he wants.

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I think to live deliberately means that you’re always making the most out of your life. You’re not just sitting around and wallowing but you out in the world doing whatever you want to do. In the world, you see people living deliberately by chasing their dreams and wanting to achieve them. That can either be what you want to do with your future or you want to travel the world. It’s not the same for everyone. I believe that people can choose to live deliberately and can make changes to do so. It’s up to them and no one else.  Emily Dickinson poem is about hope  and how it liberates us from despair and gives us strength to move on. I believe that my mom captures the illustration of Emily Dickinson's poem. My mom became a single mom with 3 kids and had no job because she was a stay at home mom. She didn't just wallow in pity because she didn't have a stable job to support her 3 girls. She had hope that things would get better and that gave her strength to do the things she needed to do to help her family.

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I believe that Living deliberately means trying to improve the world around ourselves. That purpose, in my opinion, is what living deliberately is about. We can see this in the world around us through entrepreneurs, artists, and writers who are innovating and creating something new, and whether a business, piece of artwork, or book, it embodies trying to create something new and amazing. I see this most through my grandma. She was a single mother who put my mom through college, then became an author and artist. Every day she creates new wonderful things and by doing this she improves the world around her and lives deliberately.

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living life how you want and not giving up on a good dream from some Youtubers how they started with no one knowing them to having thousands. The bird kept singing no matter what it faced including a storm. And by keeping up with what this world need or close people want.
I think my mom would be a good example starting out working in pizza hut to an essential employ at Wal-Mart by sending trucks where they need to go well mostly.

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I think that living deliberately means to be living as an active part of your life. To live as the main character in your story rather than a bystander that is experiencing events. Living deliberately means having a purpose and striving towards goals you have rather than just dreaming about said goals. Hope is always present and can be seen in the darkest of times. Living deliberately means to acknowledge that hope even when it is hard to see. My mom shows Dickinson's illustration of hope and she lives deliberately.

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To live deliberately means that you want something in life. It means you have a goal for yourself and that you're genuinely living for 'something.' In the world we live in, you can find at least one person who chooses to live life with a purpose. In life, you can make the choice to choose to chase your goals and make achievements everyday. There are long-term and short-term goals in life that we, as people that live within a society lead ourselves to make. We can choose a path to go along in order to complete or reach said goals. Nothing is given to us for free, so it's important to make every moment matter in our own way. Emily Dickinson enlightens the idea of hope and how is encourages and challenges us to keep going even when things in life become unstable. It takes strength for a person to keep going even after all that they've endured. The person in my life I would best relate this topic to, would be my father. he served in the Marine Corps for 23 years of his life, and chose to lead this life when he was only 18. He went into the military and learned extremely difficult lessons that no other person should have to go through and learn. He lost people on the battlefield that he loved and cared for in a deep way. His best friends, his comrades, but all the same, he kept going for the purpose of holding onto the freedom of his country. This man, who sacrificed everything, didn't give up even after he had lost his best friends and seen horrid things that changed his life forever. To me, that's the power of living deliberately. Living and keeping towards an important purpose, even when you are faced to endure and give up things that you care for dearly.

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Living deliberately means to live with meaning. I believe it means to work on reaching your goals and to also make an impact on other peoples lives. I see people who live deliberate by helping others and following their dreams. In Dicksons poem she is talking about how hope gives us strength and motivation.  My grandparents are both passionate about helping others and taking care of people. They volunteer at their churches soup kitchen and are very involved in it. They care for everyone and always volunteer to help.

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Living deliberately is living with a purpose. It means not giving up when things don't go as we planned. In other words its hope. A feeling so powerful, it can gives us the will to go on when nothing else does.  In the world today, hope is in all the people waving their tenets fee for the month due to Corona. By making those dissension, that better someone eases life in response to some change shows living deliberately. Dickinson's poem is all about hope and therefore living deliberately. As explained earlier, hope gives purpose, and purpose gives meaning to life. My Grandma is someone who inspires hope and strength to everyone she meets. She has battled breast cancer, and for a time beaten it. Sadly though the cancer came back in a different form and spread to her bones. In all this time she has constantly been a light for so many people. She could've given up hope, and just said you know what i'm going to die. She didn't though and she continues to fight. She is someone who inspires me to keep on trying, when all I want to do is to give up. She has inspired my vision of living deliberately, which is to make a impact to my friends, family, and even animals.

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When you are living deliberately, you are not only hoping that other people will do good, you are hoping that you will do good. You will make the most of every opportunity and take advantage of every chance you get. You look to help others and find success within your self and do what you can to make as many people happy as you can. Dickinson's poem talks about having hope and relates to the living deliberately question. There are many people in my life that show this but the group I would focus on are professional athletes who have had their seasons cancelled due to the Corona virus. Rather than being sad and doing nothing, they are taking advantage of the time they have with their families and finding happiness and success within their at home lives. A specific person that captures the idea of living deliberately would be my brother. He made a lot bad mistakes in his last years of high school and beginning of college and that put him in a hard place, but he worked with what he had and now he is doing great and learned a lot from those experiences.

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Emily Dickinson's poem is pretty stereotypically positive, describing hope as a bird and contrasting it with various environments to help characterize her vision of it. The theme is pretty positive, with the poem stating that hope is a positive, singing emotion that rises in the face of opposition and  seems to be felt despite itself -- hope "Never asked a crumb of me," according to Dickinson, highlighting its almost involuntary nature; it takes no effort to feel hope in a bad situation, and you may even be feeling it despite yourself.
I think that living deliberately is undefinable, and differs with every person. To give it a step-by step definition or to moralize it is to force your own ideas of a proper lifestyle on someone else, because everyone's ideal life is shaped by their own experience and upbringing. As such, one of the best ways to put living deliberately is to say that it's an individual's way of living the way they want to, and striving for that ideal.
Dickinson's idea of living deliberately involves having hope in tough times, and working through them through hope and its promise of better times. This relate's to the question above in that it is Dickinson's version of living deliberately.
If we're talking about people in my life that I think illustrate Dickinson's idea of hope, as well as the concept of living deliberately, I think my dad fits that the most. He was raised by a single mother in various homes around the country, living in states like Tennessee, North Carolina, Michigan, and New York throughout his childhood and young adulthood. Despite a difficult upbringing, he put a lot of effort into his studies in college, and went on to marry my mom and live here.

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Emily Dickinson´s poem has the theme, hope endures the human heart and hope is what helps us get through the harder parts in life. To live deliberately means to live life with a purpose that you have planned for yourself. I see this lifestyle in the world around me through my friends and family. When they are faced with tough challenges, they stay positive and try to mainly look on the brighter side of things instead of giving up hope and walking away. A way I can respond to change so that I am living deliberately is to accept and adjust to the changes happening around me and then make new goals to help make a positive impact. Dickinson's poem relates to the question by talking about how hope helps us get through the hard times in our lives and it allows us to not lose faith in ourselves or our chosen purposes. I think my mom captures the illustration of Emily Dickinson's poem. A few years ago my mom really wanted to contribute more to the medical field so she quit her job to go back to medical school and get a higher degree. She faced several challenges along the way but she never gave up because she really wanted to help make a positive impact on more people. After years of studying all night and taking tests almost every week, she graduated and got her new degree. Now she gets to work with and help a lot of different people.

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By living deliberately, you face the challenges that are ahead of you and make positive choices that are beneficial to you and to others. This is present in everything around us. It can be as huge as voting in an election, leaders making choices for their nation/people, marriage and family, and fighting for equal rights. It can also be as small as improving on character, befriending a lonely individual, or studying for school, even if it can be difficult. When a change occurs, good or bad, it's okay! Believe that you will either accept it or overcome it.

Dickinson's poem is one of the many definitions of living deliberately. It's about hope; something one should not give up on. You power through big obstacles with hope, but that can only happen if you believe in it.

I have a friend who was doing things that was not good for her for weeks when she felt hopeless and nothing mattered to her anymore. It was when her boyfriend first called her from boot-camp that she thought if she kept up with what she was doing, she was going to lose her loved ones, including him. She started to slowly drift away from it and got more motivated with school. She thought that life was worth living for. Even though those negative feelings will come back to her, she still continues to live out her best.

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When you live deliberately you live and do things with a purpose. I see this lifestyle in the world around us like entrepreneurs; they create their own path for the business. When living deliberately i would think you would respond to changed by keeping your eyes on the end goal and keep going I believe my grandmother illustrates the theme of the poem because she loves to help her community and that is her passion is to help people everything she dose she puts people first shes started making mask for our hospital because where running out.

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I think that to live deliberately is to do things with reason in order to get an outcome that it wanted and if something isn't wanted, you could find a way to see what you want and making the best out of every situation. In the poem, Dickinson says that hope is the things with feathers which is a bird and then later says that it is there in both time of light and darkness. Going off of this it tells us that no matter if things are going amazing or very well, there is always going to be hope. Another way that living deliberately could be described as seeing hope no matter if you're in a time of crisis or not. One person that I think I could interview is my father because he has told me multiple stories and a recurring thing that I noticed was that he always finds a way to get to where to what he wants.

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I think living deliberately means to make a goal and always have hope and follow through on that until the end. I can see this in life in all kinds of people. People have all different goals and passions and continue to strive to meet those goals. Whether its my friends, developing their passions or people like adults and family members pushing for their goals despite challenges. The poem written by Emily Dickinson relates to hope and how hope pushes people to continue on, and even live deliberately how they see fit. One person that I think fits Dickinson's would be my dad. He served in the Army for a period of time after high school. He served in Operation Desert Storm and lived in the desert of Kuwait for awhile. Throughout this time, he always remained hopeful and pushed on.

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To live deliberately is to live with a purpose and a reason you want to keep so you are living carefully and making sure you stick to that purpose or reason. the real struggle is making sure to stay on that path and i can see where they slip up i have a few people in my life i would consider living Deliberately where friends and family are very passionate about something and because of their passion certain things they don't struggle with someone like this is one of my freshman friends "Amy Facio" (If anyone knows her) she is really passionate about her friends and her family because she tries so hard to keep everything in check of course shes not perfect and messes up but because shes passionate about it she makes sure that she tries her hardest

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I would like to believe that to live deliberately means to go down a path in life you designed for yourself. Don't settle for what is handed to you because part of being human is discovering yourself and the world around you. We are not all cookie cutters. My mold will not fit into another's. Likewise, I would not make a great lawyer, but I would be a good author and playwright. Dickinson's poem relates because hope is a weak thing at first glance, a lot like a baby bird. But baby birds eventually shed their down and learn to fly. Hope, with nourishment and strength, is a beautiful thing. Just the sight of it can lift spirits. I have a very close friend to me who pursues art as a career. She's heard all of the starving artist comments and it amazes me how she manages to push through, despite all the obstacles of mental health and home life. She could have listened to everyone else who said, "You won't amount to anything if you do this, try this." She simply said, "But I like this. I'm going to keep doing this."

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1. The theme of Emily Dickinson's poem ""Hope" is the thing with feathers" is that hope is an ever present feeling that helps carry one through the toughest, most despair-inducing times of their life.

2. I believe that to live deliberately is to experience as many facets of life as possible within one’s lifespan. This can be achieved by branching out on the food one eats, as well as the hobbies they partake in. I see this lifestyle in the world around me when I see people performing stunts they've never done like skydiving and diving, as well as my father who has practiced countless hobbies over the years, with mountain biking being his current one. I can live deliberately by seeing change as a new way of going about life, and a break from the mundane habits I have. This will allow me to experience more of the veritable cornucopia of feelings and activities that is life.

3. Emily Dickinson's poem ""Hope" is the thing with feathers" relates to the question of what it means to live deliberately as it presents the idea that no matter how hard the times get in one's life, if they are hopeful, their hope will get them through it. Enjoying life after and even through harsh adversity is definately an example of living deliberately.

4. A person in my life that captures Dickinson's illustration of hope and my vision of living deliberately is my mother, Amanda Williams. She overcame adversity in the past when her home burnt down and most of her family's possessions were lost, and her parents fought very often during her upbringing. Despite these bad experiences she has become a kind and successful woman, as she was an acclaimed 3rd Grade teacher for a decade before becoming a counselor last year. She is also a mere month away from getting a second Masters Degree. The fact that my mother helps countless families and their children on a daily basis after having a somewhat rocky childhood shows how she is living deliberately.

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Living Deliberately means to live happily. Living happily doesn't mean you'll always be happy but it means that you are in control of your life. When you are in control of your life, you can control your emotions and outlook no matter what circumstances you go through. You never let moments of hardship completely take over your life or lose yourself. Living happily leads people to the things they love, whether it be a job, a certain person or group, an experience, or a goal. You become able to love and show all of yourself. Emily Dickinson's poem shows a very important part needed to living deliberately. In order to face hardship and not be absorbed you need hope to guide you. Hope for better days will lead you to better day and inspire you to keep fighting. Someone who has shown me through her life to live deliberately is my mom. Growing up in a poor town in Mexico, she dropped out of school at age 12 and started learning how to make wedding and other types of formal dresses. When she left her job as a 14 year old with immense back pain she knew that she wasn't passionate about what she was doing. So she started training to be a nurse, this also ended up not working out for her so she dropped out. My mom had to make many more sacrifices but she eventually found her passion and her definition of living deliberately.

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Living deliberately is having a purpose, getting up every morning and wanting to do something. Dickinson's poem describes what some people's motivation is to continue with a deliberate life. These people can stand up from whatever life tries to punch them in the gut with and keep walking toward whatever goal they want to reach. A close friend of mine is one of those people; her life at home is unstable and there have been several days that she's spent entirely in bed. I've seen her use art as a coping mechanism and an expressive device. She's put her thoughts and emotions into color, and through that people can see both what her life is like now and what she wants to make it in the future. I can see she's still up and running smoothly.

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I think that living deliberately means to be living as an active part of your life. To live as the main character in your story rather than a bystander that is experiencing events. Living deliberately means having a purpose and striving towards goals you have rather than just dreaming about said goals. Hope is always present and can be seen in the darkest of times. Living deliberately means to acknowledge that hope even when it is hard to see. My mom shows Dickinson's illustration of hope and she lives deliberately.

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The theme that is expressed is the idea of predator in prey and in this case the prey would be hope and the predator is the world around us and how it impacts us. To live deliberately means to live with intention; to live with a purpose. We see this a lot in America because a lot of people go around and live a life just to have fun and not really care what I choose to do and ignore it and focus my time and energy to a goal that will make me very successful. What Dickinson is doing is illustrating the idea of hope which ties into the idea of being able to feel motivated so you can make a change for the better and this relates to the idea of living deliberately because you are going out of your way to make sure what succeeds. My aunt, who is a nurse,  is the person who makes me want to live deliberately for the better of the people around me. Always ensuring that my more important actions are for my own benefit and do not have a negative impact on my chance of success, and yet helps others around me not only succeed but to thrive.