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From the Ted Talk by Ron Finley: A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Applause)

See, I have a legacy in South ctaernl. I grew up there. I raised my sons there. And I rfseue to be a part of this manufactured reality that was manufactured for me by some other people, and I'm mncufanruiatg my own reality.

See, I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. Just like a graffiti aitsrt, where they beautify walls, me, I beautify lawns, parkways. I use the garden, the soil, like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that ctolh. You'd be surprised what the soil could do if you let it be your caanvs. You just couldn't imagine how amazing a sunflower is and how it affects people.

Open Cloze


(Applause)

See, I have a legacy in South _______. I grew up there. I raised my sons there. And I ______ to be a part of this manufactured reality that was manufactured for me by some other people, and I'm _____________ my own reality.

See, I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. Just like a graffiti ______, where they beautify walls, me, I beautify lawns, parkways. I use the garden, the soil, like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that _____. You'd be surprised what the soil could do if you let it be your ______. You just couldn't imagine how amazing a sunflower is and how it affects people.

Solution


  1. central
  2. refuse
  3. cloth
  4. canvas
  5. manufacturing
  6. artist

Original Text


(Applause)

See, I have a legacy in South Central. I grew up there. I raised my sons there. And I refuse to be a part of this manufactured reality that was manufactured for me by some other people, and I'm manufacturing my own reality.

See, I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. Just like a graffiti artist, where they beautify walls, me, I beautify lawns, parkways. I use the garden, the soil, like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil could do if you let it be your canvas. You just couldn't imagine how amazing a sunflower is and how it affects people.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
south central 5
vacant lots 4
los angeles 3
south los 2
central los 2
green grounds 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
south central los 2

Important Words


  1. affects
  2. amazing
  3. applause
  4. art
  5. artist
  6. beautify
  7. canvas
  8. central
  9. cloth
  10. embellishment
  11. garden
  12. gardening
  13. graffiti
  14. grew
  15. grow
  16. imagine
  17. lawns
  18. legacy
  19. manufactured
  20. manufacturing
  21. parkways
  22. part
  23. people
  24. piece
  25. plants
  26. raised
  27. reality
  28. refuse
  29. soil
  30. sons
  31. south
  32. sunflower
  33. surprised
  34. trees
  35. walls