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From the Ted Talk by Keith Nolan: Deaf in the military

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And that was the siprit of lrienang about and sptnrupiog one another that carried over. And since then, I’ve been involved in everything they do, without any serotaaipn. This is where my passion lies. I love them. I’ll show you some pictures here.

Bruin Battalion, Bravo Company — that’s the name of the group I belong to. The cadre are the officers and sgetrnaes who oversee the ROTC program. In the beginning, you can see, it was a bit of an awkward psahe. But once they laneerd more about me and what I’m caablpe of doing, there's been tremendous support and unity. The cadets, my fellow peers — well, when you tarin and sweat together, you feel the bond of camaraderie right away. A brother- or sisterly cohesiveness makes them like family. In training and military seincce classes, we learn theories of warfare, how to lead soldiers, how to do reconnaissance, strategies, how to knock out a bkeunr and land navigation, where you’re finding your way out in the mountains. As far as accommodations, I’ve been provided with interpreters through the National Center on Deafness, NCOD, here at CSUN. And I really have to thank them, because it's hard to find interpreters who are willing to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, or sometimes even 3:30 in the morning.

Open Cloze


And that was the ______ of ________ about and __________ one another that carried over. And since then, I’ve been involved in everything they do, without any __________. This is where my passion lies. I love them. I’ll show you some pictures here.

Bruin Battalion, Bravo Company — that’s the name of the group I belong to. The cadre are the officers and _________ who oversee the ROTC program. In the beginning, you can see, it was a bit of an awkward _____. But once they _______ more about me and what I’m _______ of doing, there's been tremendous support and unity. The cadets, my fellow peers — well, when you _____ and sweat together, you feel the bond of camaraderie right away. A brother- or sisterly cohesiveness makes them like family. In training and military _______ classes, we learn theories of warfare, how to lead soldiers, how to do reconnaissance, strategies, how to knock out a ______ and land navigation, where you’re finding your way out in the mountains. As far as accommodations, I’ve been provided with interpreters through the National Center on Deafness, NCOD, here at CSUN. And I really have to thank them, because it's hard to find interpreters who are willing to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, or sometimes even 3:30 in the morning.

Solution


  1. separation
  2. science
  3. spirit
  4. phase
  5. bunker
  6. supporting
  7. learning
  8. train
  9. sergeants
  10. capable
  11. learned

Original Text


And that was the spirit of learning about and supporting one another that carried over. And since then, I’ve been involved in everything they do, without any separation. This is where my passion lies. I love them. I’ll show you some pictures here.

Bruin Battalion, Bravo Company — that’s the name of the group I belong to. The cadre are the officers and sergeants who oversee the ROTC program. In the beginning, you can see, it was a bit of an awkward phase. But once they learned more about me and what I’m capable of doing, there's been tremendous support and unity. The cadets, my fellow peers — well, when you train and sweat together, you feel the bond of camaraderie right away. A brother- or sisterly cohesiveness makes them like family. In training and military science classes, we learn theories of warfare, how to lead soldiers, how to do reconnaissance, strategies, how to knock out a bunker and land navigation, where you’re finding your way out in the mountains. As far as accommodations, I’ve been provided with interpreters through the National Center on Deafness, NCOD, here at CSUN. And I really have to thank them, because it's hard to find interpreters who are willing to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, or sometimes even 3:30 in the morning.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
deaf soldiers 6
rotc program 5
deaf people 4
deaf israeli 3
world war 2
israeli soldiers 2
top picture 2
disabled soldiers 2
deaf cadet 2
deaf person 2
field training 2
chinook helicopter 2
fellow cadets 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
deaf israeli soldiers 2

Important Words


  1. accommodations
  2. awkward
  3. battalion
  4. beginning
  5. belong
  6. bit
  7. bond
  8. bravo
  9. bruin
  10. bunker
  11. cadets
  12. cadre
  13. camaraderie
  14. capable
  15. carried
  16. center
  17. classes
  18. cohesiveness
  19. company
  20. csun
  21. deafness
  22. family
  23. feel
  24. fellow
  25. find
  26. finding
  27. group
  28. hard
  29. interpreters
  30. involved
  31. knock
  32. land
  33. lead
  34. learn
  35. learned
  36. learning
  37. lies
  38. love
  39. military
  40. morning
  41. mountains
  42. national
  43. navigation
  44. ncod
  45. officers
  46. oversee
  47. passion
  48. peers
  49. phase
  50. pictures
  51. program
  52. reconnaissance
  53. rotc
  54. science
  55. separation
  56. sergeants
  57. show
  58. sisterly
  59. soldiers
  60. spirit
  61. strategies
  62. support
  63. supporting
  64. sweat
  65. theories
  66. train
  67. training
  68. tremendous
  69. unity
  70. wake
  71. warfare