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From the Ted Talk by Tamana Ayazi and Kat Craig: The danger and devotion of fighting for women in Afghanistan
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TA: sxseim is everywhere and we need to come together to work on it. But the only thing I would say [is] that it’s tiring and exhausting, but we should not give up. We cannot stop.
KC: Absolutely.
TA: So we need to have sioildraty, to work on it together, to push for it.
KC: And hearing stories like yours, like Zarifa, there's an amazing line in the documentary where we fololw her in such extraordinarily difficult circumstances and she's constantly under threat. And she says, "Well, men have had 40-50 years to get this right and they haven't yet done it right. So I'm not going to give up." Is that representative of the stpiris of many weomn that you encountered in Afghanistan?
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TA: ______ is everywhere and we need to come together to work on it. But the only thing I would say [is] that it’s tiring and exhausting, but we should not give up. We cannot stop.
KC: Absolutely.
TA: So we need to have __________, to work on it together, to push for it.
KC: And hearing stories like yours, like Zarifa, there's an amazing line in the documentary where we ______ her in such extraordinarily difficult circumstances and she's constantly under threat. And she says, "Well, men have had 40-50 years to get this right and they haven't yet done it right. So I'm not going to give up." Is that representative of the _______ of many _____ that you encountered in Afghanistan?
Solution
- sexism
- follow
- solidarity
- spirits
- women
Original Text
TA: Sexism is everywhere and we need to come together to work on it. But the only thing I would say [is] that it’s tiring and exhausting, but we should not give up. We cannot stop.
KC: Absolutely.
TA: So we need to have solidarity, to work on it together, to push for it.
KC: And hearing stories like yours, like Zarifa, there's an amazing line in the documentary where we follow her in such extraordinarily difficult circumstances and she's constantly under threat. And she says, "Well, men have had 40-50 years to get this right and they haven't yet done it right. So I'm not going to give up." Is that representative of the spirits of many women that you encountered in Afghanistan?
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| started working |
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| strong taliban |
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| taliban presence |
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| shake hands |
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| put pressure |
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Important Words
- absolutely
- afghanistan
- amazing
- circumstances
- constantly
- difficult
- documentary
- encountered
- exhausting
- extraordinarily
- follow
- give
- hearing
- line
- men
- push
- representative
- sexism
- solidarity
- spirits
- stop
- stories
- threat
- tiring
- women
- work
- years
- zarifa