by Alexander Sharp | Apr 11, 2023
I wrote this rhetorical analysis for Dr. Strain’s Rhetorical Theory class as the University of Dayton. It looks at Vicki Hearne’s essay, “What’s Wrong with Animal Rights” and compares it to Cicero’s De Oratore. Love requires two...
by Alexander Sharp | Apr 8, 2023
Rating In my home growing up, at the landing at the top of the stairs, we had a large collection of Readers Digest Condensed books. Each book contained four or five novels greatly abbreviated for the impatient reader. I believe they belonged to my grandmother, who...
by Alexander Sharp | Mar 27, 2023
Fargo Season 1 Fargo Season 2 Fargo Season 3 Fargo Season 4 Fargo Season 5 Rating When FX released the television series Fargo, I didn’t even consider giving it a chance. The entire premise seemed to be a real-life Hamlet 2, a tragic joke. Recently, a person I...
by Alexander Sharp | Mar 2, 2023
Rating How do you make a genre film without devolving into redundancy? Sharper (2021), my first Apple TV+ movie, tries to obscure its genre for the early acts, but the closer it moves toward the end the more familiar things become. First it poses as a romantic drama,...
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...
