by Alexander Sharp | Feb 20, 2023
Rating What does it mean to be civilized? Beyond the observable systems and customs of civilization, what does civilization tell us about the human condition? Does civilization allow humans to transcend our animalistic nature or does it merely insulate some of us from...
by Alexander Sharp | Sep 24, 2022
The following is a comparison of an adaptation of Halmet to one of Twelfth Night. I wrote this at Wittenberg for Dr. Buckman’s Shakespeare class. He loved to take tradition genres and subvert them in ways that challenged the writer. Here the assignment was to,...
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...
