by Alexander Sharp | Aug 15, 2022
I wrote the original script for this video. It went through some revisions to appease the campaign but for the most part everything remained intact. I love political rhetoric and it’s was exciting to do work for a campaign I really believed in. Best of all—she...
by Alexander Sharp | Aug 7, 2022
I’ve always been a big fan of Jonathan Swift despite frequently disagreeing with him. I wrote this piece for Dr. Incorvati’s English 280 class at Wittenberg. I think it was called “Survey of British English” or something like that. It’s...
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 21, 2022
I wrote this rhetorical analysis for Dr. Strain’s Rhetorical Theory class at the University of Dayton. At the time I taught a class where I assigned a rhetorical analysis of this Stephen Jay Gould essay. It seemed only right to give myself the same assignment. While...
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 6, 2022
This is a paper I wrote as an undergrad about Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (affiliate link). Looking back, it’s a thoroughly ridiculous paper. Although accepted in the academic genre, it’s impossible to follow unless you’re...
by Alexander Sharp | Jun 15, 2022
Almost no one gets political rhetoric right. Candidates spend millions on polling, focus testing, A/B testing, and engaging in every other conceivable way to narrow rhetoric into quantifiable pieces, and yet very rarely does a politician have the ability to...
