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From the Ted Talk by Mia Birdsong: The story we tell about poverty isn't true

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Desmond Tutu talks about the concept of utbnuu, in the context of South Africa's trtuh and Reconciliation process that they embarked on after apartheid. He says it means, "My humanity is caught up, is ilntcearxiby bound up, in yours; we belong to a bundle of life." A bundle of life. The Truth and rncoeliioaticn process started by elevating the voices of the unheard. If this country is going to live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all, then we need to elevate the voices of our unheard, of people like Jobana, siinta and Bertha, thesrea and Baakir. We must leverage their solutions and their ideas. We must listen to their true stories, their more beautifully complex sirteos.

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Desmond Tutu talks about the concept of ______, in the context of South Africa's _____ and Reconciliation process that they embarked on after apartheid. He says it means, "My humanity is caught up, is ____________ bound up, in yours; we belong to a bundle of life." A bundle of life. The Truth and ______________ process started by elevating the voices of the unheard. If this country is going to live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all, then we need to elevate the voices of our unheard, of people like Jobana, ______ and Bertha, _______ and Baakir. We must leverage their solutions and their ideas. We must listen to their true stories, their more beautifully complex _______.

Solution

  1. stories
  2. inextricably
  3. theresa
  4. reconciliation
  5. sintia
  6. truth
  7. ubuntu

Original Text

Desmond Tutu talks about the concept of ubuntu, in the context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation process that they embarked on after apartheid. He says it means, "My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours; we belong to a bundle of life." A bundle of life. The Truth and Reconciliation process started by elevating the voices of the unheard. If this country is going to live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all, then we need to elevate the voices of our unheard, of people like Jobana, Sintia and Bertha, Theresa and Baakir. We must leverage their solutions and their ideas. We must listen to their true stories, their more beautifully complex stories.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
hard work 3
poor people 3
marginalized communities 2
extra money 2
beautifully complex 2
reconciliation process 2

Important Words

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