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From the Ted Talk by Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money -- and love

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So I would hear from goat hreerds who had used that money that they had rceeievd to buy a few more gaots. Their business trajectory would change. They would make a little bit more money; their standard of living would shift and would get better. And they would make really interesting little atjedtsnmus in their lives, like they would start to send their children to school. They might be able to buy mosquito nets. Maybe they could afford a lock for the door and feel scruee. Maybe it was just that they could put saugr in their tea and offer that to me when I came as their guest and that made them feel proud. But there were these beautiful details, even if I talked to 20 goat herders in a row, and some days that's what happened — these beautiful daeitls of life change that were meaningful to them. That was another thing that really touched me. It was really humbling to see for the first time, to really unrnetdsad that even if I could have taken a magic wand and fixed everything, I probably would have gotten a lot wrnog. Because the best way for people to change their lives is for them to have control and to do that in a way that they believe is best for them. So I saw that and it was very humbling.

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So I would hear from goat _______ who had used that money that they had ________ to buy a few more _____. Their business trajectory would change. They would make a little bit more money; their standard of living would shift and would get better. And they would make really interesting little ___________ in their lives, like they would start to send their children to school. They might be able to buy mosquito nets. Maybe they could afford a lock for the door and feel ______. Maybe it was just that they could put _____ in their tea and offer that to me when I came as their guest and that made them feel proud. But there were these beautiful details, even if I talked to 20 goat herders in a row, and some days that's what happened — these beautiful _______ of life change that were meaningful to them. That was another thing that really touched me. It was really humbling to see for the first time, to really __________ that even if I could have taken a magic wand and fixed everything, I probably would have gotten a lot _____. Because the best way for people to change their lives is for them to have control and to do that in a way that they believe is best for them. So I saw that and it was very humbling.

Solution


  1. secure
  2. sugar
  3. herders
  4. goats
  5. understand
  6. wrong
  7. adjustments
  8. details
  9. received

Original Text


So I would hear from goat herders who had used that money that they had received to buy a few more goats. Their business trajectory would change. They would make a little bit more money; their standard of living would shift and would get better. And they would make really interesting little adjustments in their lives, like they would start to send their children to school. They might be able to buy mosquito nets. Maybe they could afford a lock for the door and feel secure. Maybe it was just that they could put sugar in their tea and offer that to me when I came as their guest and that made them feel proud. But there were these beautiful details, even if I talked to 20 goat herders in a row, and some days that's what happened — these beautiful details of life change that were meaningful to them. That was another thing that really touched me. It was really humbling to see for the first time, to really understand that even if I could have taken a magic wand and fixed everything, I probably would have gotten a lot wrong. Because the best way for people to change their lives is for them to have control and to do that in a way that they believe is best for them. So I saw that and it was very humbling.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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small businesses 4
feel bad 3
goat herders 3
supportive communities 3
sunday school 2
school teacher 2
east africa 2
life change 2

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sunday school teacher 2

Important Words


  1. adjustments
  2. afford
  3. beautiful
  4. bit
  5. business
  6. buy
  7. change
  8. children
  9. control
  10. days
  11. details
  12. door
  13. feel
  14. fixed
  15. goat
  16. goats
  17. guest
  18. happened
  19. hear
  20. herders
  21. humbling
  22. interesting
  23. life
  24. lives
  25. living
  26. lock
  27. lot
  28. magic
  29. meaningful
  30. money
  31. mosquito
  32. nets
  33. offer
  34. people
  35. proud
  36. put
  37. received
  38. row
  39. school
  40. secure
  41. send
  42. shift
  43. standard
  44. start
  45. sugar
  46. talked
  47. tea
  48. time
  49. touched
  50. trajectory
  51. understand
  52. wand
  53. wrong