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From the Ted Talk by James Nachtwey: Moving photos of extreme drug-resistant TB
Unscramble the Blue Letters
It puts a human face on iusess which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their goball ipmact. What happens at ground level, far from the halls of power, happens to ordinary citizens one by one. And I understood that documentary photography has the ailtiby to ineetprrt events from their ponit of view. It gives a voice to those who otherwise would not have a voice.
My TED wish. There’s a vital story that needs to be told and I wish for TED to help me gain access to it and then to help me come up with innovative and exciting ways to use news photography in the digital era. Thank you very much.
Open Cloze
It puts a human face on ______ which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their ______ ______. What happens at ground level, far from the halls of power, happens to ordinary citizens one by one. And I understood that documentary photography has the _______ to _________ events from their _____ of view. It gives a voice to those who otherwise would not have a voice.
My TED wish. There’s a vital story that needs to be told and I wish for TED to help me gain access to it and then to help me come up with innovative and exciting ways to use news photography in the digital era. Thank you very much.
Solution
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- impact
- ability
Original Text
It puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. What happens at ground level, far from the halls of power, happens to ordinary citizens one by one. And I understood that documentary photography has the ability to interpret events from their point of view. It gives a voice to those who otherwise would not have a voice.
My TED wish. There’s a vital story that needs to be told and I wish for TED to help me gain access to it and then to help me come up with innovative and exciting ways to use news photography in the digital era. Thank you very much.
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