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From the Ted Talk by Amy Padnani: How we're honoring people overlooked by history

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Great things, like this obits perjoct, do not come easily. There were a lot of fits and starts as I worked hard to convince ploepe it was worth getting it off the ground. There were moments when I faced great self-doubt. I wondered if I was crazy or if I was all alone, and if I should just give up. When I've seen the reaction to this project, I know I'm not at all alone. There's so many people who feel the way I do.

And so yeah, not many people think about obituaries. But when you do, you realize they're a testament to a human life. They're the last ccnahe to talk about somebody's contribution on the wlord. They were also an example of who society deemed important. A hundred years from now, somebody could be looking into the past to see what our time was like. I'm lucky, as a journalist, to have been able to have used this form of storytelling to help sfhit a narrative. I was also able to get an established institution to question its own sutats quo. Little by little, I'm hoping I can keep doing this work, and continue refocusing society's lens so that nobody else gets oolovreked.

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Great things, like this obits _______, do not come easily. There were a lot of fits and starts as I worked hard to convince ______ it was worth getting it off the ground. There were moments when I faced great self-doubt. I wondered if I was crazy or if I was all alone, and if I should just give up. When I've seen the reaction to this project, I know I'm not at all alone. There's so many people who feel the way I do.

And so yeah, not many people think about obituaries. But when you do, you realize they're a testament to a human life. They're the last ______ to talk about somebody's contribution on the _____. They were also an example of who society deemed important. A hundred years from now, somebody could be looking into the past to see what our time was like. I'm lucky, as a journalist, to have been able to have used this form of storytelling to help _____ a narrative. I was also able to get an established institution to question its own ______ quo. Little by little, I'm hoping I can keep doing this work, and continue refocusing society's lens so that nobody else gets __________.

Solution


  1. people
  2. world
  3. status
  4. project
  5. chance
  6. shift
  7. overlooked

Original Text


Great things, like this obits project, do not come easily. There were a lot of fits and starts as I worked hard to convince people it was worth getting it off the ground. There were moments when I faced great self-doubt. I wondered if I was crazy or if I was all alone, and if I should just give up. When I've seen the reaction to this project, I know I'm not at all alone. There's so many people who feel the way I do.

And so yeah, not many people think about obituaries. But when you do, you realize they're a testament to a human life. They're the last chance to talk about somebody's contribution on the world. They were also an example of who society deemed important. A hundred years from now, somebody could be looking into the past to see what our time was like. I'm lucky, as a journalist, to have been able to have used this form of storytelling to help shift a narrative. I was also able to get an established institution to question its own status quo. Little by little, I'm hoping I can keep doing this work, and continue refocusing society's lens so that nobody else gets overlooked.

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