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From the Ted Talk by R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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So I came back to the States and I _____ about all those issues that I mentioned before: the ______ brutality, the sexism, the racism. Honestly, I didn't know how the world was going to receive it from me. I just knew that I was tired of ______ my life to things that I didn't care about. So I hired a comic book artist, I ran a Kickstarter campaign and my graphic novel became "The Burning Metronome." It's a supernatural murder _______ about otherworldly creatures who absorb magical _____ from human cruelty. They _____ human beings and they give us the chance to choose between compassion and cruelty. In one of the stories a police officer has an ___________ to go back and undo a time when he was unnecessarily _______ to someone.

Solution


  1. power
  2. police
  3. opportunity
  4. mystery
  5. watch
  6. violent
  7. wrote
  8. giving

Original Text


So I came back to the States and I wrote about all those issues that I mentioned before: the police brutality, the sexism, the racism. Honestly, I didn't know how the world was going to receive it from me. I just knew that I was tired of giving my life to things that I didn't care about. So I hired a comic book artist, I ran a Kickstarter campaign and my graphic novel became "The Burning Metronome." It's a supernatural murder mystery about otherworldly creatures who absorb magical power from human cruelty. They watch human beings and they give us the chance to choose between compassion and cruelty. In one of the stories a police officer has an opportunity to go back and undo a time when he was unnecessarily violent to someone.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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comic books 6
black people 3
police officer 3
grown white 2
white woman 2
brutally murdered 2
insurance agency 2
graphic novels 2
book store 2
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change hearts 2
civil rights 2

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collocation frequency
comic book store 2

Important Words


  1. absorb
  2. artist
  3. beings
  4. book
  5. brutality
  6. burning
  7. campaign
  8. care
  9. chance
  10. choose
  11. comic
  12. compassion
  13. creatures
  14. cruelty
  15. give
  16. giving
  17. graphic
  18. hired
  19. honestly
  20. human
  21. issues
  22. kickstarter
  23. knew
  24. life
  25. magical
  26. mentioned
  27. metronome
  28. murder
  29. mystery
  30. officer
  31. opportunity
  32. otherworldly
  33. police
  34. power
  35. racism
  36. ran
  37. receive
  38. sexism
  39. states
  40. stories
  41. supernatural
  42. time
  43. tired
  44. undo
  45. unnecessarily
  46. violent
  47. watch
  48. world
  49. wrote