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From the Ted Talk by Dolores Huerta: How to overcome apathy and find your power

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You know, women, they have so many inhibitions. Many of them have suffered so much turama in their lives, so many aggressions in their lievs. And so it's very hard for them to realize that they have leadership capacities. That they can get out there, and they could cganhe the wlord. Another thing that many women — we think that we have to do everything. That we are the only ones responsible for our families, and it is so hard for us to delegate and just get others to help us do the duties that we are responsible for. We feel embarrassed or we feel guilty. But we know that we have to make this happen, because if not, we will never have time to be able to volunteer to help on these many causes that are now facing us. One of the aears that women can give up a little bit of time and that is in shopping, OK?

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You know, women, they have so many inhibitions. Many of them have suffered so much ______ in their lives, so many aggressions in their _____. And so it's very hard for them to realize that they have leadership capacities. That they can get out there, and they could ______ the _____. Another thing that many women — we think that we have to do everything. That we are the only ones responsible for our families, and it is so hard for us to delegate and just get others to help us do the duties that we are responsible for. We feel embarrassed or we feel guilty. But we know that we have to make this happen, because if not, we will never have time to be able to volunteer to help on these many causes that are now facing us. One of the _____ that women can give up a little bit of time and that is in shopping, OK?

Solution

  1. areas
  2. world
  3. change
  4. trauma
  5. lives

Original Text

You know, women, they have so many inhibitions. Many of them have suffered so much trauma in their lives, so many aggressions in their lives. And so it's very hard for them to realize that they have leadership capacities. That they can get out there, and they could change the world. Another thing that many women — we think that we have to do everything. That we are the only ones responsible for our families, and it is so hard for us to delegate and just get others to help us do the duties that we are responsible for. We feel embarrassed or we feel guilty. But we know that we have to make this happen, because if not, we will never have time to be able to volunteer to help on these many causes that are now facing us. One of the areas that women can give up a little bit of time and that is in shopping, OK?

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Important Words

  1. aggressions
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  5. change
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  24. trauma
  25. volunteer
  26. women
  27. world