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From the Ted Talk by Noy Thrupkaew: Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


As a journalist, I really care about how we relate to each other through language, and the way we tell that story, with all the gory, violent detail, the salacious aspects — I call that "look at her scars" __________. We use that story to ________ ourselves that _____ trafficking is a bad man doing a bad thing to an innocent girl. That story lets us off the hook. It takes away all the societal context that we might be indicted for, for the structural inequality, or the poverty, or the barriers to migration. We let ourselves think that human ___________ is only about forced prostitution, when in reality, human trafficking is embedded in our everyday _____.

Solution


  1. lives
  2. convince
  3. human
  4. trafficking
  5. journalism

Original Text


As a journalist, I really care about how we relate to each other through language, and the way we tell that story, with all the gory, violent detail, the salacious aspects — I call that "look at her scars" journalism. We use that story to convince ourselves that human trafficking is a bad man doing a bad thing to an innocent girl. That story lets us off the hook. It takes away all the societal context that we might be indicted for, for the structural inequality, or the poverty, or the barriers to migration. We let ourselves think that human trafficking is only about forced prostitution, when in reality, human trafficking is embedded in our everyday lives.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
human trafficking 14
global horizons 4
guest worker 4
million dollars 3
sex trade 3
law enforcement 3
worker program 3
young girl 2
fishing boats 2
criminal justice 2
justice system 2
labor trafficking 2
recruitment fees 2
horizons survivors 2
agricultural sector 2
supply chains 2
trafficking survivors 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
guest worker program 3
criminal justice system 2
global horizons survivors 2

Important Words


  1. aspects
  2. bad
  3. barriers
  4. call
  5. care
  6. context
  7. convince
  8. detail
  9. embedded
  10. everyday
  11. forced
  12. girl
  13. gory
  14. hook
  15. human
  16. indicted
  17. inequality
  18. innocent
  19. journalism
  20. journalist
  21. language
  22. lets
  23. lives
  24. man
  25. migration
  26. poverty
  27. prostitution
  28. reality
  29. relate
  30. salacious
  31. societal
  32. story
  33. structural
  34. takes
  35. trafficking
  36. violent