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From the Ted Talk by Katie Fahey: A crash course in making political change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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So I hope all of you remember that when it comes to democracy, all political power is inherent in the people. We all are those people, and this is our power. I hope you don't forget that. And you remain unafraid to create the world you want to live in.

Open Cloze


And I think that's really important to ________. I mean, there’s a _____ for _______, too. I definitely should not perform open-heart surgery on any of you. I would not be good at it. But we are the ones who are _______ to these problems. Our communities and our kids are the ones who do not have clean ________ water. We have the most incentive to want to fix these problems, because we live with its brokenness every single day. And we see our ___________ as actual communities. They are our homes. They aren't red or blue. They are just us.

So I hope all of you remember that when it comes to democracy, all political power is inherent in the people. We all are those people, and this is our power. I hope you don't forget that. And you remain unafraid to create the world you want to live in.

Solution


  1. place
  2. remember
  3. experts
  4. closest
  5. drinking
  6. communities

Original Text


And I think that's really important to remember. I mean, there’s a place for experts, too. I definitely should not perform open-heart surgery on any of you. I would not be good at it. But we are the ones who are closest to these problems. Our communities and our kids are the ones who do not have clean drinking water. We have the most incentive to want to fix these problems, because we live with its brokenness every single day. And we see our communities as actual communities. They are our homes. They aren't red or blue. They are just us.

So I hope all of you remember that when it comes to democracy, all political power is inherent in the people. We all are those people, and this is our power. I hope you don't forget that. And you remain unafraid to create the world you want to live in.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. actual
  2. blue
  3. brokenness
  4. clean
  5. closest
  6. communities
  7. create
  8. day
  9. democracy
  10. drinking
  11. experts
  12. fix
  13. forget
  14. good
  15. homes
  16. hope
  17. important
  18. incentive
  19. inherent
  20. kids
  21. live
  22. people
  23. perform
  24. place
  25. political
  26. power
  27. problems
  28. red
  29. remain
  30. remember
  31. single
  32. surgery
  33. unafraid
  34. water
  35. world