Paul Bogard's Let There Be Dark

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Paul Bogard in Let There Be Dark ,uses such a variety and wide range of ways to get the audience attention and different techniques and ways to try and persuade them . Paul's argument s is basically built on his appeal to broad spectrum of benefits issued or offered by natural darkness. Including them pertaining to the economy, environment and health . Promoting different types of outside to relate and connect back to his claim . Paul opens his argument with a personal anecdote , his personal experience with the beauty of darkness . Then he goes further along to give example of the benefits of darkness . The first evidence he presents is with is healthy benefits of natural darkness , particularly in way to prevent cancer .

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