Chase Ohm - “Chinook Salmon of the Pacific Northwest” (session 8) In Northern California, Chinook Salmon are a symbol of the Chinook tribe’s culture, who once inhabited much of that area. The spring Chinook Salmon runs that were once a big event have become something of the past in recent years. A once heavily populated fish species is now struggling and their numbers are rapidly dwindling. As a result, the Chinook Salmon was recently placed on the endangered species list. There are many different human impacts that have caused these fish to lose the majority of their population. With new management processes being implemented to help these salmon, there is a long road in front of them before they reach a healthy population again. Marcelo Goichi Okuda Filho - “Overcoming Loneliness” (session 14) In this essay, I am going to focus on international students who come to the United States to study and live at Missouri Valley College and I am going to talk about the impacts and solutions for loneliness, so we can improve our quality of life. My argument is that the support offered is not enough, so that lack ends moving into another problem that ruins the quality of life and experience of these people on campus. The main solution is to be in contact with each student, give them attention, and offer extremely good and strong emotional support and help during every year they are living on campus. Debbie Olson - “‘And a Child Shall Lead Them’: [Dis]Ability, Childhood, and Survival in The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)” (session 22) Children, and childhood, seem to be an odd pairing with the post- apocalyptic condition and yet, in many post-apocalyptic films, children play a central role in the survival of and hope for humanity. The notion of a dystopian childhood filled with zombies or mutant abominations is disconcerting and functions as a direct challenge to all that adults believe about childhood, innocence, and the resourcefulness and capabilities of children in traumatic situations. And the idea of disabled children surviving in such situations is particularly daunting. This paper argues that the film“The Girl with all the Gifts” challenges notions of both childhood and disability within the post-apocalypse landscape. For while most would see disability as antithetical to survival in a post- apocalyptic world, in this film, it is those children who are viewed as “disabled” that become the “new humanity.”
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