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When was Backgammon invented? The ancestors of Backgammon were according to Wikipedia invented about 5,000 to 4,400 years ago and Backgammon itself 1,500.
Where was Backgammon invented? Its ancestors were according to Wikipedia invented in Egypt around 3,500 B.C., Persia 3,000, then Iraq in 2,600 and finally Backgammon was invented in around 450 to 500 A.D
How did Backgammon spread? According to Wikipedia, it started in the Byzantine Empire, then the Ottoman empire, so what would become Turkey and modern day Greece, Then east Asia and western Europe and finally America.
Why is Backgammon popular? There exist multiple reasons but one is that it is so old that it has had more time to spread and familiarize itself with culture.
What is Backgammon? Backgammon is a board game with 36 total parts, two players, two die, two groups of 15 distinguishable checkers, a doubling die and a board with a center strip and 12 evenly spaced lines on the top and bottom. Who invented Backgammon? According to legends in Wikipedia, it was invented by Wuzurgmihr the minister of king Khosrow the first, after rationalizing chess, to give to the Indian king as a challenge. …show more content…
There is a rhetorical opportunity from the fact that even though Backgammon is widespread and popular it is still rare enough that a lot of people don’t know about it and it is still not too large of a topic since Backgammon is simple to understand and it has not been modified much since its creation.
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“Space Savers Are Banned in the South End” from Boston magazine caught my eye with its introduction which began by relating with the targeted audience with the first sentence “Let’s face it: in a city where parking space is precious, every snowstorm can turn our streets into a battlefield.” and then gives the reason for the fact “The familiar culprit? Space savers—which include anything from bright-orange road cones to ironing boards to life-size cardboard cutouts of the Rock—plopped into cleared-out public parking spots to mark the shoveler’s territory.” and then gives the specific details about the consequences “Over the years, Bostonians have notoriously taken the law into their own hands to defend their painstakingly excavated parking spaces, slashing neighbors’ tires, keying car doors, punching one another in the face, and even shooting off rounds of live ammo.” and then finally gives the thesis statement “it’s A-okay to call dibs on a spot in the first 48 hours after a snow emergency. Except, that is, in one of the city’s toniest neighborhoods: the South End.”. Another effective introduction comes from the article “Boston Is a Shooters’ Paradise” from Boston magazine This one starts differently since it begins with a story that gives the reader context on where, when, how and what happens after a nonlethal shooting. “It’s a Thursday afternoon in Roxbury, and as always the Grove Hall intersection on Blue Hill Avenue is bustling with action. Behind the street-front window of a salon, a young woman gets her hair dyed a bright shade of blue while customers flip through magazines and gossip. Several teenage girls giggle while crossing the street. In front of the wide windows of the Rainbow clothing store, a woman carries a small Minnie Mouse backpack for the toddler walking beside her. Up the road, a trio of rappers—dubbed Real, P-Nice, and Tone Tekk—freestyle back and forth. There is not a single visible sign that in this very spot earlier today, someone yanked out a gun and shot a man in the back.” The last sentence of the story gives a surprising detail that this was not the scene where a shooting will happen but after it happened. Then some details of the shooting itself are given and then finally the thesis statement is given “It seems obvious that people who commit such a crime—who point a loaded gun at someone and pull the trigger ... Few things should be higher on a police department’s priority list. Yet that’s not something the BPD or the district attorney’s office typically do.”. On the same article, the conclusion is also effective by restating the thesis statement “However we got to this point, where 94 percent of shootings remain
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When was Backgammon invented? The ancestors of Backgammon were according to Wikipedia invented about 5,000 to 4,400 years ago and Backgammon itself 1,500.
Where was Backgammon invented? Its ancestors were according to Wikipedia invented in Egypt around 3,500 B.C., Persia 3,000, then Iraq in 2,600 and finally Backgammon was invented in around 450 to 500 A.D
How did Backgammon spread? According to Wikipedia, it started in the Byzantine Empire, then the Ottoman empire, so what would become Turkey and modern day Greece, Then east Asia and western Europe and finally America.
Why is Backgammon popular? There exist multiple reasons but one is that it is so old that it has had more time to spread and familiarize itself with culture.
What is Backgammon? Backgammon is a board game with 36 total parts, two players, two die, two groups of 15 distinguishable checkers, a doubling die and a board with a center strip and 12 evenly spaced lines on the top and bottom. Who invented Backgammon? According to legends in Wikipedia, it was invented by Wuzurgmihr the minister of king Khosrow the first, after rationalizing chess, to give to the Indian king as a challenge. …show more content…
There is a rhetorical opportunity from the fact that even though Backgammon is widespread and popular it is still rare enough that a lot of people don’t know about it and it is still not too large of a topic since Backgammon is simple to understand and it has not been modified much since its creation.
Ch 33
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“Space Savers Are Banned in the South End” from Boston magazine caught my eye with its introduction which began by relating with the targeted audience with the first sentence “Let’s face it: in a city where parking space is precious, every snowstorm can turn our streets into a battlefield.” and then gives the reason for the fact “The familiar culprit? Space savers—which include anything from bright-orange road cones to ironing boards to life-size cardboard cutouts of the Rock—plopped into cleared-out public parking spots to mark the shoveler’s territory.” and then gives the specific details about the consequences “Over the years, Bostonians have notoriously taken the law into their own hands to defend their painstakingly excavated parking spaces, slashing neighbors’ tires, keying car doors, punching one another in the face, and even shooting off rounds of live ammo.” and then finally gives the thesis statement “it’s A-okay to call dibs on a spot in the first 48 hours after a snow emergency. Except, that is, in one of the city’s toniest neighborhoods: the South End.”. Another effective introduction comes from the article “Boston Is a Shooters’ Paradise” from Boston magazine This one starts differently since it begins with a story that gives the reader context on where, when, how and what happens after a nonlethal shooting. “It’s a Thursday afternoon in Roxbury, and as always the Grove Hall intersection on Blue Hill Avenue is bustling with action. Behind the street-front window of a salon, a young woman gets her hair dyed a bright shade of blue while customers flip through magazines and gossip. Several teenage girls giggle while crossing the street. In front of the wide windows of the Rainbow clothing store, a woman carries a small Minnie Mouse backpack for the toddler walking beside her. Up the road, a trio of rappers—dubbed Real, P-Nice, and Tone Tekk—freestyle back and forth. There is not a single visible sign that in this very spot earlier today, someone yanked out a gun and shot a man in the back.” The last sentence of the story gives a surprising detail that this was not the scene where a shooting will happen but after it happened. Then some details of the shooting itself are given and then finally the thesis statement is given “It seems obvious that people who commit such a crime—who point a loaded gun at someone and pull the trigger ... Few things should be higher on a police department’s priority list. Yet that’s not something the BPD or the district attorney’s office typically do.”. On the same article, the conclusion is also effective by restating the thesis statement “However we got to this point, where 94 percent of shootings remain