Regarding america's 2009 economic crisis, new york times op-ed columnist frank rich writes in a january 9, 2010 editorial that ultimately "wall street gamed and inflated the housing bubble, made out like bandits, and then left millions of households in ruin" and goes on to say that "bailed-out banks are [now] reporting record profits and bonuses. the contrary voices of americans who have lost pay, jobs, homes and savings are either patronized or drowned out entirely by a political system where the banking lobby rules in both parties and the revolving door between finance and government never stops spinning." write a carefully reasoned essay in which you defend, challenge, or qualify rich's claim regarding politics, economics, and the american citizen . support your argument with specific references to your reading, observation, or experience.

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.