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From the Ted Talk by Kashfia Rahman: How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain

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And these obstacles were frustrating, but I was also a sotbrubn teenager. And as the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants and one of just a handful of Muslim stuendts in my high school in South dtkaoa, I often struggled to fit in. And I wanted to be someone with something to contribute to seitcoy, not just be deemed the scarf-wearing brown girl who was an anomaly in my hoooungmes hometown. I hoped that by doing this research, I could establish this and how valuable scientific exploration could be for kids like me who didn't necessarily find their niche elsewhere.

So with limited research opportunities, inventiveness allowed me to oocrveme seemingly impossible obstacles. I became more creative in working with a vieatry of methodologies, materials and sjtcubes. I transformed my unassuming school lriabry into a laboratory and my peers into lab rats.

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And these obstacles were frustrating, but I was also a ________ teenager. And as the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants and one of just a handful of Muslim ________ in my high school in South ______, I often struggled to fit in. And I wanted to be someone with something to contribute to _______, not just be deemed the scarf-wearing brown girl who was an anomaly in my __________ hometown. I hoped that by doing this research, I could establish this and how valuable scientific exploration could be for kids like me who didn't necessarily find their niche elsewhere.

So with limited research opportunities, inventiveness allowed me to ________ seemingly impossible obstacles. I became more creative in working with a _______ of methodologies, materials and ________. I transformed my unassuming school _______ into a laboratory and my peers into lab rats.

Solution


  1. overcome
  2. stubborn
  3. dakota
  4. homogenous
  5. students
  6. library
  7. society
  8. subjects
  9. variety

Original Text


And these obstacles were frustrating, but I was also a stubborn teenager. And as the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants and one of just a handful of Muslim students in my high school in South Dakota, I often struggled to fit in. And I wanted to be someone with something to contribute to society, not just be deemed the scarf-wearing brown girl who was an anomaly in my homogenous hometown. I hoped that by doing this research, I could establish this and how valuable scientific exploration could be for kids like me who didn't necessarily find their niche elsewhere.

So with limited research opportunities, inventiveness allowed me to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. I became more creative in working with a variety of methodologies, materials and subjects. I transformed my unassuming school library into a laboratory and my peers into lab rats.

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