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From the Ted Talk by Ryan Gravel: How an old loop of railroads is changing the face of a city

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


So even though it _______ as my graduate thesis and I'm working hard for 16 _____ with thousands of people to help make this thing come to life, I know and believe that who the ________ is being built for is just as important as whether it's _____ at all. Not just in Atlanta, but locally and globally, we have to understand this accountability to the people whose lives we are changing, because this is us. We are the lives we're talking about. These places aren't inevitable. The places we live aren't inevitable, and if we want something different, we just need to _____ up. We have to ensure that change comes on our terms. And to do that, we have to ___________ actively in the process of shaping change.

Solution


  1. speak
  2. participate
  3. years
  4. started
  5. built
  6. beltline

Original Text


So even though it started as my graduate thesis and I'm working hard for 16 years with thousands of people to help make this thing come to life, I know and believe that who the BeltLine is being built for is just as important as whether it's built at all. Not just in Atlanta, but locally and globally, we have to understand this accountability to the people whose lives we are changing, because this is us. We are the lives we're talking about. These places aren't inevitable. The places we live aren't inevitable, and if we want something different, we just need to speak up. We have to ensure that change comes on our terms. And to do that, we have to participate actively in the process of shaping change.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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cultural momentum 4
fundamentally changed 3
atlanta beltline 2
early stages 2
los angeles 2


Important Words


  1. accountability
  2. actively
  3. atlanta
  4. beltline
  5. built
  6. change
  7. changing
  8. ensure
  9. globally
  10. graduate
  11. hard
  12. important
  13. inevitable
  14. life
  15. live
  16. lives
  17. locally
  18. participate
  19. people
  20. places
  21. process
  22. shaping
  23. speak
  24. started
  25. talking
  26. terms
  27. thesis
  28. thousands
  29. understand
  30. working
  31. years