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From the Ted Talk by Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison

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I want to end with a call to young people, the young people attending cogelle and the young people struggling to stay out of prison or to make it through posirn and rreutn home. It may seem like these paths to adulthood are worlds apart, but the ynuog people participating in these two ioinintutsts conveying us to adulthood, they have one thing in common: Both can be lerdeas in the work of reforming our ciamnril justice system. Young people have always been leaders in the fight for equal rights, the fight for more people to be granted dignity and a fighting cchane at freedom. The mission for the generation of young people coming of age in this, a sea-change moment, potentially, is to end mass incarceration and build a new criminal justice system, ehsmipas on the word justice.

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I want to end with a call to young people, the young people attending _______ and the young people struggling to stay out of prison or to make it through ______ and ______ home. It may seem like these paths to adulthood are worlds apart, but the _____ people participating in these two ____________ conveying us to adulthood, they have one thing in common: Both can be _______ in the work of reforming our ________ justice system. Young people have always been leaders in the fight for equal rights, the fight for more people to be granted dignity and a fighting ______ at freedom. The mission for the generation of young people coming of age in this, a sea-change moment, potentially, is to end mass incarceration and build a new criminal justice system, ________ on the word justice.

Solution

  1. young
  2. prison
  3. chance
  4. emphasis
  5. institutions
  6. criminal
  7. leaders
  8. college
  9. return

Original Text

I want to end with a call to young people, the young people attending college and the young people struggling to stay out of prison or to make it through prison and return home. It may seem like these paths to adulthood are worlds apart, but the young people participating in these two institutions conveying us to adulthood, they have one thing in common: Both can be leaders in the work of reforming our criminal justice system. Young people have always been leaders in the fight for equal rights, the fight for more people to be granted dignity and a fighting chance at freedom. The mission for the generation of young people coming of age in this, a sea-change moment, potentially, is to end mass incarceration and build a new criminal justice system, emphasis on the word justice.

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Important Words

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