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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Youn: 3 reasons why we can win the fight against poverty
Unscramble the Blue Letters
You know, we see things like this, and we're upset by them, but they seem like such big poelrmbs. We don't know how to take effective aitocn. But remember our friend Archimedes. Global poverty has powerful levers. It's a preblom like any other. I live and work in the field, and as a practitioner, I believe these are very solvable problems. So for the next 10 minutes, let's not be sad about the state of the world. Let's engage our brains. Let's engage our collective passion for problem-solving and frgiue out what those lveers are.
Open Cloze
You know, we see things like this, and we're upset by them, but they seem like such big ________. We don't know how to take effective ______. But remember our friend Archimedes. Global poverty has powerful levers. It's a _______ like any other. I live and work in the field, and as a practitioner, I believe these are very solvable problems. So for the next 10 minutes, let's not be sad about the state of the world. Let's engage our brains. Let's engage our collective passion for problem-solving and ______ out what those ______ are.
Solution
- action
- figure
- problems
- problem
- levers
Original Text
You know, we see things like this, and we're upset by them, but they seem like such big problems. We don't know how to take effective action. But remember our friend Archimedes. Global poverty has powerful levers. It's a problem like any other. I live and work in the field, and as a practitioner, I believe these are very solvable problems. So for the next 10 minutes, let's not be sad about the state of the world. Let's engage our brains. Let's engage our collective passion for problem-solving and figure out what those levers are.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| farm inputs |
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| global poverty |
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| extreme poverty |
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| rural field |
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| united states |
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| small area |
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| rural east |
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| human race |
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| solvable problems |
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| powerful levers |
2 |
| lever number |
2 |
| reduce environmental |
2 |
| lack access |
2 |
| agricultural poverty |
2 |
| proven goods |
2 |
| delivery networks |
2 |
| delivering farm |
2 |
| field officers |
2 |
| delivery armies |
2 |
| farm services |
2 |
| effective tools |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
| collocation |
frequency |
| rural field officers |
2 |
Important Words
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- archimedes
- big
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- collective
- effective
- engage
- field
- figure
- friend
- global
- levers
- live
- minutes
- passion
- poverty
- powerful
- practitioner
- problem
- problems
- remember
- sad
- solvable
- state
- upset
- work
- world