At a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best explains how nye’s word choice establish her voice in the excerpt? a.) nye uses short, forceful words to support her opinion that an american heritage is limited and mechanical. b.)nye describes a neighborhood fair to support her opinion that the idea of an american heritage does not exist. c.) nye creates a powerful image of trees to support her opinion that living among a variety of cultures is an american heritage. d.) nye directly quotes something she heard in order to express her distress over a lack of american heritage.

C) Nye creates a powerful image of trees to support her opinion that living among a variety of cultures is an American heritage

C.) Nye creates a powerful image of trees to support her opinion that living among a variety of cultures is an American heritage.

Explanation:

In this passage, the author presents a person who is jealous of other people's heritage. He believes that people from places like Germany and Mexico are lucky, as they are able to enjoy a rich culture. The author contrasts the statements of the man with the image of the "American" trees dangling above him. The author suggests that the man is surrounded by a rich American culture and heritage, but is unable to see it.

answer: this is not a good thesis statement because a thesis statement is not supposed to have questions in it. a thesis states your position on your topic. a question cannot state anything because it is not a statement. a question is a great lead in to a thesis, but it can't be the thesis.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.