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From the Ted Talk by Emily Levine: How I made friends with reality

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

(Applause)

So ... and now, I'm going to take a mental leap, which is easy for me because I'm the Evel kveeinl of mental leaps; my lnsicee plate says, "Cogito, ergo zoom." I hope you're willing to come with me on this, but my real problem with the mindset that is so out to deeaft death is if you're anti-death, which to me tstnrealas as anti-life, which to me translates as anti-nature, it also translates to me as anti-woman, because wemon have long been identified with nature. And my source on this is Hannah arednt, the German philosopher who wrote a book called "The Human Condition." And in it, she says that classically, work is associated with men. Work is what comes out of the head; it's what we invent, it's what we create, it's how we leave our mark upon the world. Whereas labor is associated with the body. It's associated with the people who perform labor or ugndero lboar. So to me, the mindset that denies that, that dienes that we're in sync with the biorhythms, the cyclical rhythms of the universe, does not create a hospitable environment for women or for pepole associated with labor, which is to say, people that we associate as descendants of svlaes, or people who perform manual labor.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

(Applause)

So ... and now, I'm going to take a mental leap, which is easy for me because I'm the Evel _______ of mental leaps; my _______ plate says, "Cogito, ergo zoom." I hope you're willing to come with me on this, but my real problem with the mindset that is so out to ______ death is if you're anti-death, which to me __________ as anti-life, which to me translates as anti-nature, it also translates to me as anti-woman, because _____ have long been identified with nature. And my source on this is Hannah ______, the German philosopher who wrote a book called "The Human Condition." And in it, she says that classically, work is associated with men. Work is what comes out of the head; it's what we invent, it's what we create, it's how we leave our mark upon the world. Whereas labor is associated with the body. It's associated with the people who perform labor or _______ _____. So to me, the mindset that denies that, that ______ that we're in sync with the biorhythms, the cyclical rhythms of the universe, does not create a hospitable environment for women or for ______ associated with labor, which is to say, people that we associate as descendants of ______, or people who perform manual labor.

Solution


  1. defeat
  2. knievel
  3. undergo
  4. translates
  5. people
  6. license
  7. labor
  8. slaves
  9. arendt
  10. denies
  11. women

Original Text


(Laughter)

(Applause)

So ... and now, I'm going to take a mental leap, which is easy for me because I'm the Evel Knievel of mental leaps; my license plate says, "Cogito, ergo zoom." I hope you're willing to come with me on this, but my real problem with the mindset that is so out to defeat death is if you're anti-death, which to me translates as anti-life, which to me translates as anti-nature, it also translates to me as anti-woman, because women have long been identified with nature. And my source on this is Hannah Arendt, the German philosopher who wrote a book called "The Human Condition." And in it, she says that classically, work is associated with men. Work is what comes out of the head; it's what we invent, it's what we create, it's how we leave our mark upon the world. Whereas labor is associated with the body. It's associated with the people who perform labor or undergo labor. So to me, the mindset that denies that, that denies that we're in sync with the biorhythms, the cyclical rhythms of the universe, does not create a hospitable environment for women or for people associated with labor, which is to say, people that we associate as descendants of slaves, or people who perform manual labor.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. applause
  2. arendt
  3. associate
  4. biorhythms
  5. body
  6. book
  7. called
  8. classically
  9. condition
  10. create
  11. cyclical
  12. death
  13. defeat
  14. denies
  15. descendants
  16. easy
  17. environment
  18. ergo
  19. evel
  20. german
  21. hannah
  22. hope
  23. hospitable
  24. human
  25. identified
  26. invent
  27. knievel
  28. labor
  29. laughter
  30. leap
  31. leave
  32. license
  33. long
  34. manual
  35. mark
  36. men
  37. mental
  38. mindset
  39. nature
  40. people
  41. perform
  42. philosopher
  43. plate
  44. problem
  45. real
  46. rhythms
  47. slaves
  48. source
  49. sync
  50. translates
  51. undergo
  52. universe
  53. women
  54. work
  55. world
  56. wrote
  57. zoom