PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?

A
“I send my thoughts and prayers, as well as Michelle's, to the family of Trayvon Martin... I can only imagine what they're going through” ( Paragraph 3)
B
“The juries were properly instructed that in a case such as this reasonable doubt was relevant, and they rendered a verdict.” ( Paragraph 4)
C
“it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away.” ( Paragraph 5)
D
“where do we take this? How do we learn some lessons from this and move in a positive direction?” ( Paragraph 11)

C . “it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away.” ( Paragraph 5)

Explanation:

Part A's question is all about the purpose of President Obama's speech regarding the "Trayvon Martin Case." He was a 17-year-old African-American who was shot by Zimmerman, a man of mixed-race. His death stirred the public's interest and so Obama needed to make a remark on the situation.

Choice C best supports the answer to Part A because it talks about how Obama tries to reconcile the people's thoughts regarding the ruling of the case. He wanted people to know and recognize why the African-American behave in such a way and why they are prone to such situations. History plays an important role in such event. He wanted people to know about the division that is still existing in the society, especially among the African-Americans.

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.

answer; (d) i believe the best answer is ; ///people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier- than-air machine;