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From the Ted Talk by Yana Buhrer Tavanier: How to recover from activism burnout
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I grew up in a time when all play was forbidden. My family's lives were cehrusd by a communist dictatorship. For my aunt, my gtnfdeahrar, my father, we always held two funerals: one for their bodies, but, years before that, one for their dreams. Some of my biggest dreams are narhmeigts. I have a nightmare that one day all the past will be forgotten and new ctlohes will be dripping the blood of past mistakes. I have a nightmare that one day the lighthouses of our humanity will cmlubre, corroded by acid waves of hate.
Open Cloze
I grew up in a time when all play was forbidden. My family's lives were _______ by a communist dictatorship. For my aunt, my ___________, my father, we always held two funerals: one for their bodies, but, years before that, one for their dreams. Some of my biggest dreams are __________. I have a nightmare that one day all the past will be forgotten and new _______ will be dripping the blood of past mistakes. I have a nightmare that one day the lighthouses of our humanity will _______, corroded by acid waves of hate.
Solution
- nightmares
- clothes
- grandfather
- crushed
- crumble
Original Text
I grew up in a time when all play was forbidden. My family's lives were crushed by a communist dictatorship. For my aunt, my grandfather, my father, we always held two funerals: one for their bodies, but, years before that, one for their dreams. Some of my biggest dreams are nightmares. I have a nightmare that one day all the past will be forgotten and new clothes will be dripping the blood of past mistakes. I have a nightmare that one day the lighthouses of our humanity will crumble, corroded by acid waves of hate.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
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human rights |
3 |
domestic violence |
2 |
people care |
2 |
creative actions |
2 |
Important Words
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- father
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- forgotten
- grandfather
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- hate
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- humanity
- lighthouses
- lives
- mistakes
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