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From the Ted Talk by Jad Abumrad: How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany

Unscramble the Blue Letters


JA: "Tennessee Mountain Home," "Tennessee moianutn Memories." Now I grew up in Tennessee, and I felt no nostalgia for that place. I was the scrawny Arab kid who came from the place that inteevnd suicide bombing. I spent a lot of time in my room. When I left Nashville, I left.

I rbmeemer being at Dollywood, sdatinng in fornt of a replica, replica of her Tennessee Mountain Home. People all around me were crying. This is a set. Why are you crying? I couldn't understand why they were so emotional, especially given my relationship to the South. And I started to hsetolny have panic attacks about this. "Am I not the right psoren for this project?"

Open Cloze


JA: "Tennessee Mountain Home," "Tennessee ________ Memories." Now I grew up in Tennessee, and I felt no nostalgia for that place. I was the scrawny Arab kid who came from the place that ________ suicide bombing. I spent a lot of time in my room. When I left Nashville, I left.

I ________ being at Dollywood, ________ in _____ of a replica, replica of her Tennessee Mountain Home. People all around me were crying. This is a set. Why are you crying? I couldn't understand why they were so emotional, especially given my relationship to the South. And I started to ________ have panic attacks about this. "Am I not the right ______ for this project?"

Solution


  1. remember
  2. standing
  3. mountain
  4. person
  5. honestly
  6. front
  7. invented

Original Text


JA: "Tennessee Mountain Home," "Tennessee Mountain Memories." Now I grew up in Tennessee, and I felt no nostalgia for that place. I was the scrawny Arab kid who came from the place that invented suicide bombing. I spent a lot of time in my room. When I left Nashville, I left.

I remember being at Dollywood, standing in front of a replica, replica of her Tennessee Mountain Home. People all around me were crying. This is a set. Why are you crying? I couldn't understand why they were so emotional, especially given my relationship to the South. And I started to honestly have panic attacks about this. "Am I not the right person for this project?"

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
tennessee mountain 5
mountain home 5
lead people 2
tennessee homesick 2
porter wagoner 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
tennessee mountain home 5

Important Words


  1. arab
  2. attacks
  3. bombing
  4. crying
  5. dollywood
  6. emotional
  7. felt
  8. front
  9. grew
  10. home
  11. honestly
  12. invented
  13. kid
  14. left
  15. lot
  16. memories
  17. mountain
  18. nashville
  19. nostalgia
  20. panic
  21. people
  22. person
  23. place
  24. project
  25. relationship
  26. remember
  27. replica
  28. room
  29. scrawny
  30. set
  31. south
  32. spent
  33. standing
  34. started
  35. suicide
  36. tennessee
  37. time
  38. understand