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From the Ted Talk by Sharon Brous: It's time to reclaim religion
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The fourth and final is interconnectedness. A few yares ago, there was a man walking on the beach in Alaska, when he came across a soccer ball that had some Japanese letters written on it. He took a ptuirce of it and posted it up on social media, and a Japanese teenager contacted him. He had lost everything in the tsunami that dvtaeseatd his country, but he was able to retrieve that scoecr ball after it had floated all the way across the pifcaic. How small our world has become. It's so hard for us to remember how icectnonreetnd we all are as human beings. And yet, we know that it is systems of oppression that benefit the most from the lie of radical individualism.
Open Cloze
The fourth and final is interconnectedness. A few _____ ago, there was a man walking on the beach in Alaska, when he came across a soccer ball that had some Japanese letters written on it. He took a _______ of it and posted it up on social media, and a Japanese teenager contacted him. He had lost everything in the tsunami that __________ his country, but he was able to retrieve that ______ ball after it had floated all the way across the _______. How small our world has become. It's so hard for us to remember how ______________ we all are as human beings. And yet, we know that it is systems of oppression that benefit the most from the lie of radical individualism.
Solution
- years
- interconnected
- pacific
- picture
- soccer
- devastated
Original Text
The fourth and final is interconnectedness. A few years ago, there was a man walking on the beach in Alaska, when he came across a soccer ball that had some Japanese letters written on it. He took a picture of it and posted it up on social media, and a Japanese teenager contacted him. He had lost everything in the tsunami that devastated his country, but he was able to retrieve that soccer ball after it had floated all the way across the Pacific. How small our world has become. It's so hard for us to remember how interconnected we all are as human beings. And yet, we know that it is systems of oppression that benefit the most from the lie of radical individualism.
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