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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

  1. nightmares
  2. clothes
  3. grandfather
  4. crushed
  5. 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

collocation frequency
human rights 3
domestic violence 2
people care 2
creative actions 2

Important Words

  1. acid
  2. aunt
  3. biggest
  4. blood
  5. bodies
  6. clothes
  7. communist
  8. corroded
  9. crumble
  10. crushed
  11. day
  12. dictatorship
  13. dreams
  14. dripping
  15. father
  16. forbidden
  17. forgotten
  18. grandfather
  19. grew
  20. hate
  21. held
  22. humanity
  23. lighthouses
  24. lives
  25. mistakes
  26. nightmare
  27. nightmares
  28. play
  29. time
  30. waves
  31. years