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From the Ted Talk by John Hockenberry: We are all designers

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Here's my favorite design moment: In the city of kisshana in Zaire in the 1990s, I was working for ABC News, and I was reporting on the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator, the brutal dictator in zarie, who raped and pillaged that country. There was rioting in the middle of Kinshasa. The place was fllaing apart; it was a horrible, horrible place, and I neeedd to go and explore the cneetr of Kinshasa to rroept on the rionitg and the looting. People were carrying off vehicles, carrying off pieces of buildings. Soldiers were in the streets shooting at leotros and herding some in mass arrests. In the middle of this chaos, I'm rolling around in a whiahlecer, and I was completely invisible. Completely. I was in a wheelchair; I didn't look like a looter. I was in a wheelchair; I didn't look like a jruisnolat, particularly, at least from their perspective. And I didn't look like a soldier, that's for sure. I was part of this sort of background nisoe of the misery of Zaire, completely invisible. And all of a sudden, from around a corner, comes this yonug man, paralyzed, just like me, in this metal and wood and leather pedal, three-wheel tricycle-wheelchair device, and he pedals up to me as fast as he can.

Open Cloze


Here's my favorite design moment: In the city of ________ in Zaire in the 1990s, I was working for ABC News, and I was reporting on the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator, the brutal dictator in _____, who raped and pillaged that country. There was rioting in the middle of Kinshasa. The place was _______ apart; it was a horrible, horrible place, and I ______ to go and explore the ______ of Kinshasa to ______ on the _______ and the looting. People were carrying off vehicles, carrying off pieces of buildings. Soldiers were in the streets shooting at _______ and herding some in mass arrests. In the middle of this chaos, I'm rolling around in a __________, and I was completely invisible. Completely. I was in a wheelchair; I didn't look like a looter. I was in a wheelchair; I didn't look like a __________, particularly, at least from their perspective. And I didn't look like a soldier, that's for sure. I was part of this sort of background _____ of the misery of Zaire, completely invisible. And all of a sudden, from around a corner, comes this _____ man, paralyzed, just like me, in this metal and wood and leather pedal, three-wheel tricycle-wheelchair device, and he pedals up to me as fast as he can.

Solution


  1. rioting
  2. zaire
  3. journalist
  4. young
  5. report
  6. center
  7. looters
  8. needed
  9. wheelchair
  10. kinshasa
  11. noise
  12. falling

Original Text


Here's my favorite design moment: In the city of Kinshasa in Zaire in the 1990s, I was working for ABC News, and I was reporting on the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator, the brutal dictator in Zaire, who raped and pillaged that country. There was rioting in the middle of Kinshasa. The place was falling apart; it was a horrible, horrible place, and I needed to go and explore the center of Kinshasa to report on the rioting and the looting. People were carrying off vehicles, carrying off pieces of buildings. Soldiers were in the streets shooting at looters and herding some in mass arrests. In the middle of this chaos, I'm rolling around in a wheelchair, and I was completely invisible. Completely. I was in a wheelchair; I didn't look like a looter. I was in a wheelchair; I didn't look like a journalist, particularly, at least from their perspective. And I didn't look like a soldier, that's for sure. I was part of this sort of background noise of the misery of Zaire, completely invisible. And all of a sudden, from around a corner, comes this young man, paralyzed, just like me, in this metal and wood and leather pedal, three-wheel tricycle-wheelchair device, and he pedals up to me as fast as he can.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
poorly designed 3
bad design 2
eye contact 2
flashy wheels 2
anders breivik 2
completely invisible 2


Important Words


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  25. kinshasa
  26. leather
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  28. looters
  29. looting
  30. man
  31. mass
  32. metal
  33. middle
  34. misery
  35. mobutu
  36. needed
  37. news
  38. noise
  39. paralyzed
  40. part
  41. pedal
  42. pedals
  43. people
  44. perspective
  45. pieces
  46. pillaged
  47. place
  48. raped
  49. report
  50. reporting
  51. rioting
  52. rolling
  53. seko
  54. sese
  55. shooting
  56. soldier
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  58. sort
  59. streets
  60. sudden
  61. vehicles
  62. wheelchair
  63. wood
  64. working
  65. young
  66. zaire