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Rhetorical Analysis Of Pollution To Health By Richard Bogard

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Bogard persuades the audience by using examples. The examples range from multiple topics. Pollution to health, the examples all correlate. He starts off with how space works. The components of spaces, the meteorites, the universe, the sunset and sunrise, the winter and summer, the stars and more. He starts persuading how beautiful the planet is and how people should start seeing it. He later brings up how the planet is changing, over the time, health issues started coming up and creating new problems. Also, pollution has helped with the downfall of all the beauty of the world that we live in. Mental and physical diseases have also messed with natural beauty. Everyone is focused on themselves that it's kind of hard to appreciate the best things

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