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From the Ted Talk by Nick Turner and Whitney Pennington Rodgers: How to fix two of the most broken systems in the US

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Open Cloze


So what we need to do is ______ less in this massive apparatus and invest in the things that we know will actually provide the kind of safety and the thriving and far less harm than what we currently have. So it has to be a fundamental, sort of, reordering of how we think about things. We have to be ____________. And then we have to go out and we have to act and we have to vote on that and we have to participate in local elections for district attorneys and sheriffs and demand these kinds of changes. And demand from ______ and governors that they invest in ______ ______ and invest in communities rather than in the systems that end up harming them.

Solution


  1. health
  2. mayors
  3. deprogrammed
  4. public
  5. invest

Original Text


So what we need to do is invest less in this massive apparatus and invest in the things that we know will actually provide the kind of safety and the thriving and far less harm than what we currently have. So it has to be a fundamental, sort of, reordering of how we think about things. We have to be deprogrammed. And then we have to go out and we have to act and we have to vote on that and we have to participate in local elections for district attorneys and sheriffs and demand these kinds of changes. And demand from mayors and governors that they invest in public health and invest in communities rather than in the systems that end up harming them.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
criminal legal 5
legal system 4
justice reform 3
immigration system 3
mass incarceration 3
public health 3
mental illness 3
criminal justice 2
justice system 2
family member 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
criminal legal system 4

Important Words


  1. act
  2. apparatus
  3. attorneys
  4. communities
  5. demand
  6. deprogrammed
  7. district
  8. elections
  9. fundamental
  10. governors
  11. harm
  12. harming
  13. health
  14. invest
  15. kind
  16. kinds
  17. local
  18. massive
  19. mayors
  20. participate
  21. provide
  22. public
  23. reordering
  24. safety
  25. sheriffs
  26. sort
  27. systems
  28. thriving
  29. vote