...In Paul Bogard’s “Let There Be Dark,” Bogard attempts to persuade his audience to preserve the remaining darkness that they have. In his writing, Bogard uses elements such as evidence, reasoning, and style to persuade that darkness is extremely important. By using these techniques, Bogard is successful in making his audience support the preservation of darkness. Throughout his work, Bogard chooses to appeal to his audience’s emotions to make them feel the importance of darkness. He chooses to use small, but valuable things in people’s lives, saying “In today’s crowded, louder, more fast-paced world, night’s darkness can provide solitude, quiet and stillness, qualities increasingly short in supply.” By using phrases such as “short in supply,” he makes the reader realize that they are losing something that may seem menial. He draws the reader’s attention to how...
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...Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis For Billy Fitzgerald I can still hear him shouting at me Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking-had he the gold? or the gold him? —John Ruskin, Unto This Last Preface I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? For more than a decade the people who run professional baseball have argued that the game was ceasing to be an athletic competition and becoming a financial one. The gap between rich and poor in baseball was far greater than in any other professional sport, and widening rapidly. At the opening of the 2002 season, the richest team, the New York Yankees, had a payroll of $126 million while the two poorest teams, the Oakland A's and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, had payrolls of less than a third of that, about $40 million. A decade before, the highest payroll...
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