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From the Ted Talk by Eric Liu: There's no such thing as not voting

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


"The Joy of Voting" _______ isn't just about joy. It's about this passion. It's about feeling and ______, and it isn't just our organization's work. All across this country right now, immigrants, young people, veterans, people of all different backgrounds are ______ together to create this kind of passionate, joyful activity around elections, in red and blue states, in urban and _____ communities, people of every political background. What they have in common is simply this: their work is rooted in place.

Because remember, all ___________ is local. When ________ becomes just a presidential election, we yell and we scream at our screens, and then we collapse, exhausted. But when politics is about us and our neighbors and other people in our community coming together to ______ experiences of collective _____ and ___________, then we begin to remember that this stuff matters. We begin to remember that this is the stuff of self-government.

Solution


  1. citizenship
  2. rural
  3. create
  4. imagination
  5. voice
  6. politics
  7. coming
  8. project
  9. belief

Original Text


"The Joy of Voting" project isn't just about joy. It's about this passion. It's about feeling and belief, and it isn't just our organization's work. All across this country right now, immigrants, young people, veterans, people of all different backgrounds are coming together to create this kind of passionate, joyful activity around elections, in red and blue states, in urban and rural communities, people of every political background. What they have in common is simply this: their work is rooted in place.

Because remember, all citizenship is local. When politics becomes just a presidential election, we yell and we scream at our screens, and then we collapse, exhausted. But when politics is about us and our neighbors and other people in our community coming together to create experiences of collective voice and imagination, then we begin to remember that this stuff matters. We begin to remember that this is the stuff of self-government.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
voting matters 2
civil rights 2
united states 2
election day 2
american politics 2
everyday democracy 2


Important Words


  1. activity
  2. background
  3. backgrounds
  4. belief
  5. blue
  6. citizenship
  7. collapse
  8. collective
  9. coming
  10. common
  11. communities
  12. community
  13. country
  14. create
  15. election
  16. elections
  17. exhausted
  18. experiences
  19. feeling
  20. imagination
  21. immigrants
  22. joy
  23. joyful
  24. kind
  25. local
  26. matters
  27. neighbors
  28. passion
  29. passionate
  30. people
  31. place
  32. political
  33. politics
  34. presidential
  35. project
  36. red
  37. remember
  38. rooted
  39. rural
  40. scream
  41. screens
  42. simply
  43. states
  44. stuff
  45. urban
  46. veterans
  47. voice
  48. work
  49. yell
  50. young