In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

Ex Input:
State officials in the South took advantage of the eclipsed role of Congress in the prohibition of racial discrimination and proceeded to embody individual practices of racial segregation into laws that legalized the treatment of blacks as second-class citizens for another seventy years .

Ex Output:
State officials in the South took advantage of the decision and began to enact laws that legalized the treatment of blacks as second-class citizens for another seventy years .


Ex Input:
As with the other Soviet republics , Turkmenistan had followed the Marxist – Leninist ideology governed by the republic 's sole party , Communist Party of Turkmenistan , a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .

Ex Output:
As with the other Soviet republics , Turkmenia followed the Marxist – Leninist ideology .


Ex Input:
, Julia Plevin argues that the " definition of ' hipster ' remains opaque to anyone outside this self-proclaiming , highly-selective circle " .

Ex Output:

, Julia Plevin says that it hard to define who is a hipster .