Transportation planner sarah riedel believes that companies need to encourage employees to take alternate means of transportation and telecommuting opportunities as well as reward employees who take advantage of these offerings

Parallel structure is present in a text when the writer uses the same pattern of words, grammatical form, and tense to indicate two or more ideas have equal importance or are interrelated. It provides thoroughness and clarity to the idea being expressed.

In the text provided parallel structure is evident by indicating the action companies need to take toward its employees: they need to encourage and reward employees that make use of alternate means of transportation and telecommuting opportunities.  

the purpose of a nonfiction text is to give the text a rap up. for example, when i say : frogs are interesting animals is an ending. then when i say: frogs are unique in different ways. that is an intro.

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".