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From the Ted Talk by Yasmin Green: How technology can fight extremism and online harassment

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So we went to Iraq to speak to yuong men who'd bought into ISIS's psomire of heroism and righteousness, who'd taken up arms to fight for them and then who'd defected after they witnessed the brutality of ISIS's rule. And I'm sitting there in this makeshift prison in the north of Iraq with this 23-year-old who had actually teiarnd as a suicide bomber before defecting. And he says, "I arrived in Syria full of hope, and immediately, I had two of my prized possessions confiscated: my passport and my mobile phone." The symbols of his physical and digital liberty were taken away from him on aaivrrl. And then this is the way he described that moment of loss to me. He said, "You know in 'Tom and Jerry,' when Jerry wants to ecpsae, and then Tom locks the door and swalolws the key and you see it bngulig out of his tahrot as it travels down?" And of course, I really could see the image that he was describing, and I really did connect with the feeinlg that he was trying to convey, which was one of doom, when you know there's no way out.

Open Cloze

So we went to Iraq to speak to _____ men who'd bought into ISIS's _______ of heroism and righteousness, who'd taken up arms to fight for them and then who'd defected after they witnessed the brutality of ISIS's rule. And I'm sitting there in this makeshift prison in the north of Iraq with this 23-year-old who had actually _______ as a suicide bomber before defecting. And he says, "I arrived in Syria full of hope, and immediately, I had two of my prized possessions confiscated: my passport and my mobile phone." The symbols of his physical and digital liberty were taken away from him on _______. And then this is the way he described that moment of loss to me. He said, "You know in 'Tom and Jerry,' when Jerry wants to ______, and then Tom locks the door and ________ the key and you see it _______ out of his ______ as it travels down?" And of course, I really could see the image that he was describing, and I really did connect with the _______ that he was trying to convey, which was one of doom, when you know there's no way out.

Solution

  1. escape
  2. young
  3. throat
  4. arrival
  5. trained
  6. feeling
  7. bulging
  8. swallows
  9. promise

Original Text

So we went to Iraq to speak to young men who'd bought into ISIS's promise of heroism and righteousness, who'd taken up arms to fight for them and then who'd defected after they witnessed the brutality of ISIS's rule. And I'm sitting there in this makeshift prison in the north of Iraq with this 23-year-old who had actually trained as a suicide bomber before defecting. And he says, "I arrived in Syria full of hope, and immediately, I had two of my prized possessions confiscated: my passport and my mobile phone." The symbols of his physical and digital liberty were taken away from him on arrival. And then this is the way he described that moment of loss to me. He said, "You know in 'Tom and Jerry,' when Jerry wants to escape, and then Tom locks the door and swallows the key and you see it bulging out of his throat as it travels down?" And of course, I really could see the image that he was describing, and I really did connect with the feeling that he was trying to convey, which was one of doom, when you know there's no way out.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
spaces online 3
online harassment 2
emotional impact 2
machine learning 2
build technology 2

Important Words

  1. arms
  2. arrival
  3. arrived
  4. bomber
  5. bought
  6. brutality
  7. bulging
  8. connect
  9. convey
  10. defected
  11. defecting
  12. describing
  13. digital
  14. doom
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  16. escape
  17. feeling
  18. fight
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  20. heroism
  21. hope
  22. image
  23. immediately
  24. iraq
  25. jerry
  26. key
  27. liberty
  28. locks
  29. loss
  30. makeshift
  31. men
  32. mobile
  33. moment
  34. north
  35. passport
  36. phone
  37. physical
  38. possessions
  39. prison
  40. prized
  41. promise
  42. righteousness
  43. rule
  44. sitting
  45. speak
  46. suicide
  47. swallows
  48. symbols
  49. syria
  50. throat
  51. tom
  52. trained
  53. travels
  54. witnessed
  55. young