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From the Ted Talk by Meera Vijayann: Find your voice against gender violence

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, the reactions coufsned me. While supportive comments poured in from across the world, as did vicious ones. So some called me a hypocrite. Some called me a victim, a rape apologist. Some even said I had a picltaoil motive. But this one comment kind of dbscieres what we are discussing here today.

But I was soon to learn that this was not all. As ermpeoewd as I felt with the new liberty that this cteiizn journalism channel gave me, I found myself in an unfamiliar situation. So sometime last August, I logged onto Facebook and I was looking through my news feed, and I noticed there was a link that was being shared by my friends. I clicked on the link; it led me back to a report uploaded by an American girl cealld Michaela Cross. The report was tetild, "India: The story you never wanted to hear." And in this rroept, she recounted her firsthand account of facing sexual hassarment in India. She wrote, "There is no way to prepare for the eyes, the eyes that every day stared with such eletnimentt at my body, with no change of expression whether I met their gaze or not. Walking to the fruit seller's or the tailor's, I got stares so sharp that they sliced away bits of me piece by picee." She called India a traveler's heaven and a woman's hell. She said she was slktaed, groped, and masturbated at.

Open Cloze


Now, the reactions ________ me. While supportive comments poured in from across the world, as did vicious ones. So some called me a hypocrite. Some called me a victim, a rape apologist. Some even said I had a _________ motive. But this one comment kind of _________ what we are discussing here today.

But I was soon to learn that this was not all. As _________ as I felt with the new liberty that this _______ journalism channel gave me, I found myself in an unfamiliar situation. So sometime last August, I logged onto Facebook and I was looking through my news feed, and I noticed there was a link that was being shared by my friends. I clicked on the link; it led me back to a report uploaded by an American girl ______ Michaela Cross. The report was ______, "India: The story you never wanted to hear." And in this ______, she recounted her firsthand account of facing sexual __________ in India. She wrote, "There is no way to prepare for the eyes, the eyes that every day stared with such ___________ at my body, with no change of expression whether I met their gaze or not. Walking to the fruit seller's or the tailor's, I got stares so sharp that they sliced away bits of me piece by _____." She called India a traveler's heaven and a woman's hell. She said she was _______, groped, and masturbated at.

Solution


  1. empowered
  2. called
  3. stalked
  4. titled
  5. piece
  6. citizen
  7. report
  8. describes
  9. harassment
  10. political
  11. entitlement
  12. confused

Original Text


Now, the reactions confused me. While supportive comments poured in from across the world, as did vicious ones. So some called me a hypocrite. Some called me a victim, a rape apologist. Some even said I had a political motive. But this one comment kind of describes what we are discussing here today.

But I was soon to learn that this was not all. As empowered as I felt with the new liberty that this citizen journalism channel gave me, I found myself in an unfamiliar situation. So sometime last August, I logged onto Facebook and I was looking through my news feed, and I noticed there was a link that was being shared by my friends. I clicked on the link; it led me back to a report uploaded by an American girl called Michaela Cross. The report was titled, "India: The story you never wanted to hear." And in this report, she recounted her firsthand account of facing sexual harassment in India. She wrote, "There is no way to prepare for the eyes, the eyes that every day stared with such entitlement at my body, with no change of expression whether I met their gaze or not. Walking to the fruit seller's or the tailor's, I got stares so sharp that they sliced away bits of me piece by piece." She called India a traveler's heaven and a woman's hell. She said she was stalked, groped, and masturbated at.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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sexual violence 2
citizen journalism 2
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Important Words


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