Paul Bogard's Rhetorical Analysis

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Paul Bogard effectively builds his argument that darkness should be preserved for human and environmental health.
Bogard creates logos when he uses a personal anecdote, concrete evidence, and rhetorical questions to support his claim that darkness needs to be preserved.
Paul Bogard implements a personal anecdote at the start of his paper that expresses the beauty in darkness.
He says that while at a family cabin on the Minnesota lake the woods were so dark that his “hands disappeared before [his] eyes” (par. 1).
He starts of his paper by implementing a personal experience with darkness when he recalled the time he truly began to appreciate the “irreplaceable value of darkness” (par. 1).
This personal anecdote was able to portray the first

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