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From the Ted Talk by Victor Rios: Help for kids the education system ignores

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This young lady's tears and pain turned into joy and laughter knowing that her community had her back, and _______ had now learned that he did have a purpose in life: to help to heal the souls of people in his own community. He told us his story. We _______ his story to go from being the _____ of a victim to being the story of a survivor that has ________ _________. We placed high value on it. William went on to finish high school, get his security guard certificate to become a security _____, and is now working at a local school district.

Solution

  1. story
  2. overcome
  3. william
  4. adversity
  5. refined
  6. guard

Original Text

This young lady's tears and pain turned into joy and laughter knowing that her community had her back, and William had now learned that he did have a purpose in life: to help to heal the souls of people in his own community. He told us his story. We refined his story to go from being the story of a victim to being the story of a survivor that has overcome adversity. We placed high value on it. William went on to finish high school, get his security guard certificate to become a security guard, and is now working at a local school district.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
young people 15
education system 2
glass bottles 2

Important Words

  1. adversity
  2. certificate
  3. community
  4. district
  5. finish
  6. guard
  7. heal
  8. high
  9. joy
  10. knowing
  11. laughter
  12. learned
  13. local
  14. overcome
  15. pain
  16. people
  17. purpose
  18. refined
  19. school
  20. security
  21. souls
  22. story
  23. survivor
  24. tears
  25. told
  26. turned
  27. victim
  28. william
  29. working
  30. young