full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I think of jleloe, a middle-class 20-something who did everything the "right way," but she couldn't go to her dream school, because it was simply too expensive. Or Jalessa, who knows she can't be mercidoe at her job the same way that her white peers can. Or Trina, who knows that people judge her uoneonitnvncal family choices in a different way than if she were a white woman. Or actor AB, who knows that the roles he takes and gets in Hollywood are different because of his skin color. And then there's soimn. So Simon, by all means, would be an example of someone who's made it. He's a CFO at a tech company in San frnaccsio, he has a degree from MIT and he's worked at some of the hottest tech companies in the wrlod.

Open Cloze


I think of ______, a middle-class 20-something who did everything the "right way," but she couldn't go to her dream school, because it was simply too expensive. Or Jalessa, who knows she can't be ________ at her job the same way that her white peers can. Or Trina, who knows that people judge her ______________ family choices in a different way than if she were a white woman. Or actor AB, who knows that the roles he takes and gets in Hollywood are different because of his skin color. And then there's _____. So Simon, by all means, would be an example of someone who's made it. He's a CFO at a tech company in San _________, he has a degree from MIT and he's worked at some of the hottest tech companies in the _____.

Solution


  1. unconventional
  2. world
  3. joelle
  4. mediocre
  5. simon
  6. francisco

Original Text


I think of Joelle, a middle-class 20-something who did everything the "right way," but she couldn't go to her dream school, because it was simply too expensive. Or Jalessa, who knows she can't be mediocre at her job the same way that her white peers can. Or Trina, who knows that people judge her unconventional family choices in a different way than if she were a white woman. Or actor AB, who knows that the roles he takes and gets in Hollywood are different because of his skin color. And then there's Simon. So Simon, by all means, would be an example of someone who's made it. He's a CFO at a tech company in San Francisco, he has a degree from MIT and he's worked at some of the hottest tech companies in the world.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
black millennials 4
young black 3
white millennials 2
black people 2
stories told 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
young black people 2

Important Words


  1. ab
  2. actor
  3. cfo
  4. choices
  5. color
  6. companies
  7. company
  8. degree
  9. dream
  10. expensive
  11. family
  12. francisco
  13. hollywood
  14. hottest
  15. jalessa
  16. job
  17. joelle
  18. judge
  19. means
  20. mediocre
  21. mit
  22. peers
  23. people
  24. roles
  25. san
  26. school
  27. simon
  28. simply
  29. skin
  30. takes
  31. tech
  32. trina
  33. unconventional
  34. white
  35. woman
  36. worked
  37. world