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From the Ted Talk by Christine Sun Kim: The enchanting music of sign language

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So I decided to reclaim ownership of sound and to put it into my art pcatrice. And everything that I had been taught regarding sound, I decided to do away with and uelrann. I started cnrietag a new body of work. And when I presented this to the art community, I was blown away with the amount of spoprut and attention I received. I realized: sound is like money, power, control — sicaol currency. In the back of my mind, I've always felt that sound was your thing, a hearing person's thing. And sound is so powerful that it could either dpemiowser me and my artwork, or it could empower me. I chose to be empowered.

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So I decided to reclaim ownership of sound and to put it into my art ________. And everything that I had been taught regarding sound, I decided to do away with and _______. I started ________ a new body of work. And when I presented this to the art community, I was blown away with the amount of _______ and attention I received. I realized: sound is like money, power, control — ______ currency. In the back of my mind, I've always felt that sound was your thing, a hearing person's thing. And sound is so powerful that it could either __________ me and my artwork, or it could empower me. I chose to be empowered.

Solution

  1. unlearn
  2. creating
  3. practice
  4. support
  5. disempower
  6. social

Original Text

So I decided to reclaim ownership of sound and to put it into my art practice. And everything that I had been taught regarding sound, I decided to do away with and unlearn. I started creating a new body of work. And when I presented this to the art community, I was blown away with the amount of support and attention I received. I realized: sound is like money, power, control — social currency. In the back of my mind, I've always felt that sound was your thing, a hearing person's thing. And sound is so powerful that it could either disempower me and my artwork, or it could empower me. I chose to be empowered.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
social currency 4
holds true 2
hand shape 2

Important Words

  1. amount
  2. art
  3. artwork
  4. attention
  5. blown
  6. body
  7. chose
  8. community
  9. control
  10. creating
  11. currency
  12. decided
  13. disempower
  14. empower
  15. empowered
  16. felt
  17. hearing
  18. mind
  19. money
  20. ownership
  21. power
  22. powerful
  23. practice
  24. presented
  25. put
  26. received
  27. reclaim
  28. social
  29. sound
  30. started
  31. support
  32. taught
  33. unlearn
  34. work