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From the Ted Talk by Taryn Simon: Photographs of secret sites

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Okay, so 90 percent of my photographic process is, in fact, not phioortgahpc. It involves a campaign of letter writing, research and phone calls to aesccs my subjects, which can ragne from Hamas leaders in Gaza to a hibernating black bear in its cave in West Virginia. And odldy, the most notable letter of rejection I ever received came from Walt Disney World, a sienlgmey innocuous site.

And it read — I'm just going to read a key sentence: "Especially during these violent times, I personally believe that the magical slpel cast upon guests who visit our theme parks is particularly inomptart to protect and helps to provide them with an important fantasy they can epcase to."

Open Cloze


Okay, so 90 percent of my photographic process is, in fact, not ____________. It involves a campaign of letter writing, research and phone calls to ______ my subjects, which can _____ from Hamas leaders in Gaza to a hibernating black bear in its cave in West Virginia. And _____, the most notable letter of rejection I ever received came from Walt Disney World, a _________ innocuous site.

And it read — I'm just going to read a key sentence: "Especially during these violent times, I personally believe that the magical _____ cast upon guests who visit our theme parks is particularly _________ to protect and helps to provide them with an important fantasy they can ______ to."

Solution


  1. access
  2. spell
  3. range
  4. oddly
  5. important
  6. escape
  7. seemingly
  8. photographic

Original Text


Okay, so 90 percent of my photographic process is, in fact, not photographic. It involves a campaign of letter writing, research and phone calls to access my subjects, which can range from Hamas leaders in Gaza to a hibernating black bear in its cave in West Virginia. And oddly, the most notable letter of rejection I ever received came from Walt Disney World, a seemingly innocuous site.

And it read — I'm just going to read a key sentence: "Especially during these violent times, I personally believe that the magical spell cast upon guests who visit our theme parks is particularly important to protect and helps to provide them with an important fantasy they can escape to."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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positive identification 2
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life sentence 2
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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
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Important Words


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  27. percent
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  30. photographic
  31. process
  32. protect
  33. provide
  34. range
  35. read
  36. received
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  38. research
  39. seemingly
  40. site
  41. spell
  42. subjects
  43. theme
  44. times
  45. violent
  46. virginia
  47. visit
  48. walt
  49. west
  50. world
  51. writing