Draw parallels between David McCullough Jr's address to the students of Wellesley HIgh School and the message of Miley Cyrus' song "The Climb" AND Five for Fighting's "100 Years" . Use text evidence from all three works in your answer using DIRECT CITATIONS.

Answer and Explanation:

When David McCullough Jr states in his speech "you are not special" he is showing his audience how adulthood will not treat them with affection, as the audience's family does to each of them. David McCullough Jr meant that although the public has been pampered, protected and treated as if they were different and special, by their families, they are just ordinary people and adulthood will not treat them special but will treat them with difficulties and challenges that will often not be conquered.

The way David McCullough Jr describes the difficulties of adult life can be associated with the lines of the song "The Climb" sung by Miley Cyrus that say "There's always gonna be another mountain/I'm always gonna wanna make it move/Always gonna make it move be an uphill battle/Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose." While this sounds demotivating, David McCullough Jr shows that this is what will, in fact, teach the public how to live, create experiences and allow them to recognize who they truly are, understand their limits and realize that they are not special, must fight to survive .

The way in which David McCullough Jr reinforces that adolescence is a phase of extreme protection can be associated with the following lines of the song "100 Years" sung by "Five for Fighting:" Fifteen, there's still time for you/Time to buy and time to lose yourself." Through these lines, we can see that David McCullough Jr reinforces the idea that adulthood is different from adolescence, as a matter of time. In adulthood, time is scarce and everything has to be resolved quickly, there is no more time to play or lose yourself, as time is essential for more serious difficulties to be resolved.

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.

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