Comparison & Contrast Transitions and Sentence Structures

"The producers don't see the waste as their problems. It's the same with education."

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"If we think of students as products or data points, we misunderstand how education should be."

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"Products, from screws to airplanes, have no opinions or feelings about how they are produced or what happens to them. People do."

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"As with industrial farming, students and teachers alike are housed in conditions that inhibit their growth."

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"Those who went to the right universities and came from the right families might take their place in government and colonial administration. I didn't do that."

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"Whereas the Mexican-Americans from the Chavez Ravine were given financial aid to relocate in the San Gabriel Valley, this type of aid is not provided nor proposed for the Native Americans in South Dakota."

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"Just as the US Government used civic enhancements, such as the Dodger Stadium, as a pretext to relocate Mexican Americans in the Chavez Ravine, so too are politicians using civic enhancements (in terms of the pipeline) as a pretext to displace Native Americans."

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This one is tricky!

"Despite how far we think we've come in eliminating environmental racism, we in fact are perpetuating it in the case of the DAPL."

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"Unlike the elimination of the Chavez Ravine, social rights advocates are able to read between the lines and tell that the DAPL, whether intentionally or not, is a pretext for moving Native Americans out of their land."

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