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As ____ as a camera captures a scene, an image can grab hold of our emotions.

Through speech or written text, it can be difficult to convey a complex ____ quickly.

Yet photographs can change ____ hearts and minds in an instant.

And when the magic of photography sparks an ____ reaction in a great number of people, it can change history.

In the 1880s, ____ began to grow rapidly along the Cuyahoga River in the city of Cleveland.

This industrial ____ provided steady jobs to people in the area.

Meanwhile, steel mills and factories started dumping large amounts of waste into the ____.

Although the river became polluted, ____ people simply regarded this as a sign of the area’s economic success.

In ____ 1969, the polluted river caught fire.

The likely cause was a burning flare falling from a train, which set fire to oil-soaked waste ____ a bridge.

At that time, few people in ____ cared.

This was because fires had been recorded on the Cuyahoga more than ten ____ before, and some of them had been much worse.

However, it wasn’t long before the 1969 fire ____ famous.

This was thanks to an article published in Time magazine that ____.

The article featured a ____ photograph of flames and smoke rising from the river.

But this was not a photograph of the 1969 fire, which was ____ out so quickly that nobody took a picture of it.

In fact, it was a picture of a much worse fire that had occurred on the river ____ years earlier.

Still, the image had a great ____ on people.

____ that time, the attitudes of Americans toward environmental problems were starting to change.

More and more ____ were becoming aware of the need to protect the environment, and the shocking image of the burning river sparked public anger about water pollution.

As a result, the Cuyahoga ____ fire of 1969 became a symbol of pollution.

A national environmental awareness event was held on April 22, ____, which later became known as the first Earth Day.

And in 1972, national water quality standards were established with the passage of the Clean Water ____.

In the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution ____ to a dramatic increase in factory production in the United States.

The demand for workers ____, and many new positions were filled by children.

By 1900, about twenty percent of all children in the United States were ____, and some of those working in factories were only four years old.

The work was difficult and dangerous, leaving many child laborers with health ____.

Factory ____ turned to child labor for several reasons.

For ____, children could be paid less than adult workers.

They were ____ less likely to go on strike.

Lewis Hine, a teacher and photographer, wanted to reveal ____ cruel this system was.

So he quit his teaching job and started to work for the National Child Labor Committee as an ____ photographer.

He gained access to factories by pretending to have different jobs like insurance agent or fire ____.

____ inside, he would photograph the children working there.

He ____ also ask their names and ages and record information about their living and working conditions.

From 1908 to 1912, he ____ gathered information and took photographs to expose factory owners who were taking advantage of helpless children.

Hine’s photographs captured young children doing all ____ of jobs.

These included picking vegetables, weaving baskets, and even handling dangerous ____.

What is more, the children’s faces showed the tragic impact of hard ____.

When ____ saw the children’s joyless expressions, they could not help but feel heartbroken.

The pictures were later ____ in exhibitions, lectures, magazine articles, and so on.

As a result, the public realized ____ how serious the situation was.

Soon, many states passed stronger laws to ban the ____ of children.

In 1938, the United States Congress passed an act that made it ____ for children under sixteen to work in factories during school hours.

These ____ show that photographs can bring meaningful change to society.

They prove that, sometimes, a picture truly is ____ a thousand words.