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From the Ted Talk by Samantha Power: A complicated hero in the war on dictatorship

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One note on his death, which is so devastating, is that despite predicating the war on Iraq on a link between Saddam Hussein and trsoirrem in 9/11, believe it or not, the Bush administration or the invaders did no planning, no pre-war planning, to respond to terrorism. So seigro — this receptacle of all of this learning on how to deal with evil and how to deal with brokenness, lay under the rlbbue for three and a half hours without rescue. Stateless. The guy who tried to help the stateless people his whole career. Like a reufgee. Because he represents the U.N.

If you rrnespeet everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned. And what the armacein — the most powerful military in the hotsriy of mankind was able to muster for his rescue, believe it or not, was literally these heroic two American soderlis went into the shaft. bdlniiug was sihknag. One of them had been at 9/11 and lost his buddies on seeptmebr 11th, and yet went in and risked his life in order to save Sergio. But all they had was a woman's handbag — literally one of those basket handbags — and they tied it to a curtain rope from one of the offices at U.N. headquarters, and created a pulley system into this shaft in this quivering building in the irsentets of ruinsceg this person, the person we most need to turn to now, this shepherd, at a time when so many of us feel like we're lacking guidance.

Open Cloze


One note on his death, which is so devastating, is that despite predicating the war on Iraq on a link between Saddam Hussein and _________ in 9/11, believe it or not, the Bush administration or the invaders did no planning, no pre-war planning, to respond to terrorism. So ______ — this receptacle of all of this learning on how to deal with evil and how to deal with brokenness, lay under the ______ for three and a half hours without rescue. Stateless. The guy who tried to help the stateless people his whole career. Like a _______. Because he represents the U.N.

If you _________ everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned. And what the ________ — the most powerful military in the _______ of mankind was able to muster for his rescue, believe it or not, was literally these heroic two American ________ went into the shaft. ________ was _______. One of them had been at 9/11 and lost his buddies on _________ 11th, and yet went in and risked his life in order to save Sergio. But all they had was a woman's handbag — literally one of those basket handbags — and they tied it to a curtain rope from one of the offices at U.N. headquarters, and created a pulley system into this shaft in this quivering building in the _________ of ________ this person, the person we most need to turn to now, this shepherd, at a time when so many of us feel like we're lacking guidance.

Solution


  1. soldiers
  2. shaking
  3. refugee
  4. september
  5. rescuing
  6. sergio
  7. building
  8. represent
  9. american
  10. rubble
  11. terrorism
  12. history
  13. interests

Original Text


One note on his death, which is so devastating, is that despite predicating the war on Iraq on a link between Saddam Hussein and terrorism in 9/11, believe it or not, the Bush administration or the invaders did no planning, no pre-war planning, to respond to terrorism. So Sergio — this receptacle of all of this learning on how to deal with evil and how to deal with brokenness, lay under the rubble for three and a half hours without rescue. Stateless. The guy who tried to help the stateless people his whole career. Like a refugee. Because he represents the U.N.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned. And what the American — the most powerful military in the history of mankind was able to muster for his rescue, believe it or not, was literally these heroic two American soldiers went into the shaft. Building was shaking. One of them had been at 9/11 and lost his buddies on September 11th, and yet went in and risked his life in order to save Sergio. But all they had was a woman's handbag — literally one of those basket handbags — and they tied it to a curtain rope from one of the offices at U.N. headquarters, and created a pulley system into this shaft in this quivering building in the interests of rescuing this person, the person we most need to turn to now, this shepherd, at a time when so many of us feel like we're lacking guidance.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
bush administration 5
humanitarian aid 3
worst places 3
mass atrocity 2
patricia schroeder 2
genocide grades 2
sergio vieira 2
vieira de 2
de mello 2
bobby kennedy 2
broken places 2
du jour 2
khmer rouge 2
pulley system 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
sergio vieira de 2
vieira de mello 2

Important Words


  1. administration
  2. american
  3. basket
  4. brokenness
  5. buddies
  6. building
  7. bush
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  20. headquarters
  21. heroic
  22. history
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  24. hussein
  25. interests
  26. invaders
  27. iraq
  28. lacking
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  30. learning
  31. life
  32. link
  33. literally
  34. lost
  35. mankind
  36. military
  37. muster
  38. note
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  40. order
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  42. person
  43. planning
  44. powerful
  45. predicating
  46. pulley
  47. quivering
  48. receptacle
  49. refugee
  50. represent
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  52. rescue
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  54. respond
  55. risked
  56. rope
  57. rubble
  58. saddam
  59. save
  60. september
  61. sergio
  62. shaft
  63. shaking
  64. shepherd
  65. soldiers
  66. stateless
  67. system
  68. terrorism
  69. tied
  70. time
  71. turn
  72. war
  73. ways