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From the Ted Talk by McKenna Pope: Want to be an activist? Start with your toys

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So it was cnmetmos like these that really discouraged me from wanting to make cnhage in the future because I thought, people don't care, people think it's a waste of time, and people are going to be disrespectful to me and my family. It hurt me, and it made me think, what's the point of making change in the future?

But then I started to realize something. htreas gonna hate. Come on, say it with me. One, two, three: Haters gnona hate. So let your haters hate, you know what, and make your change, because I know you can. I look out into this crowd, and I see 400 ploepe who came out because they wanted to know how they could make a change, and I know that you can, and all of you watching at home can too because you have so much that you can do and that you believe in, and you can trade it across all these social media, through Facebook, through Twitter, through YouTube, through Reddit, through Tumblr, through whatever else you can think of. And you can make that change. You can take what you believe in and turn it into a cause and change it. And that spark that you've been haienrg about all day toady, you can use that spark that you have within you and turn it into a fire.

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So it was ________ like these that really discouraged me from wanting to make ______ in the future because I thought, people don't care, people think it's a waste of time, and people are going to be disrespectful to me and my family. It hurt me, and it made me think, what's the point of making change in the future?

But then I started to realize something. ______ gonna hate. Come on, say it with me. One, two, three: Haters _____ hate. So let your haters hate, you know what, and make your change, because I know you can. I look out into this crowd, and I see 400 ______ who came out because they wanted to know how they could make a change, and I know that you can, and all of you watching at home can too because you have so much that you can do and that you believe in, and you can trade it across all these social media, through Facebook, through Twitter, through YouTube, through Reddit, through Tumblr, through whatever else you can think of. And you can make that change. You can take what you believe in and turn it into a cause and change it. And that spark that you've been _______ about all day _____, you can use that spark that you have within you and turn it into a fire.

Solution


  1. change
  2. people
  3. gonna
  4. today
  5. hearing
  6. haters
  7. comments

Original Text


So it was comments like these that really discouraged me from wanting to make change in the future because I thought, people don't care, people think it's a waste of time, and people are going to be disrespectful to me and my family. It hurt me, and it made me think, what's the point of making change in the future?

But then I started to realize something. Haters gonna hate. Come on, say it with me. One, two, three: Haters gonna hate. So let your haters hate, you know what, and make your change, because I know you can. I look out into this crowd, and I see 400 people who came out because they wanted to know how they could make a change, and I know that you can, and all of you watching at home can too because you have so much that you can do and that you believe in, and you can trade it across all these social media, through Facebook, through Twitter, through YouTube, through Reddit, through Tumblr, through whatever else you can think of. And you can make that change. You can take what you believe in and turn it into a cause and change it. And that spark that you've been hearing about all day today, you can use that spark that you have within you and turn it into a fire.

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Important Words


  1. care
  2. change
  3. comments
  4. crowd
  5. day
  6. discouraged
  7. disrespectful
  8. facebook
  9. family
  10. fire
  11. future
  12. gonna
  13. hate
  14. haters
  15. hearing
  16. home
  17. hurt
  18. making
  19. media
  20. people
  21. point
  22. realize
  23. reddit
  24. social
  25. spark
  26. started
  27. thought
  28. time
  29. today
  30. trade
  31. tumblr
  32. turn
  33. twitter
  34. wanted
  35. wanting
  36. waste
  37. watching
  38. youtube