Sample answers to Essay 1:
“future scenarios”
(alphabetical order)
Oneydy Alonzo, The Self
and the Other vs. Community and Nature
Kimberly Berlin,
Eco-Aliens
Brandon Burrow,
Alien Contact, Ecotopias, and the “Other” Dimension
Sage Butler,
Human
Response to Harming our Planet: Fight or Flight?
Christopher Carlson,
Out with the Old and in with the New: A Comparison between High-Tech and
Low-Tech Societies
Zachariah Gandin,
The Humanistic Element of the
Future
Andrea Gerlach,
Connection: Artificial or Otherwise
Audrey Lange,
Ultra-Terrestrial or Extra-Terrestrial: Comparable Futures in Fiction
Beau Manshack,
Alien Punks: Comparing the Genres of Alien
Contact and High-Tech Narratives
Breanna Runnels, Comparative
Scenarios of the Future
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Sample answers to Essay 2:
Complete
Research Report on personal /
professional topic (alphabetical order)
Kimberly Berlin,
Humans are Space Orcs: A Subgenre of Science Fiction
Brandon Burrow, Whose Future is
it Anyway?
Sage Butler,
Blessed Be the Fruit
Christopher Carlson,
Humanity’s Extinction: The Loss of the Human form for the Artificial One
Amanda Cowart,
The Future of Medical Technology: Our Doom or Our Bloom
Tim Doherty, Wells and Butler:
Hope in Hopeless Times
Zachariah Gandin, The Future of
Empathy
Andrea Gerlach, Utopia
and Declinism in Future Narratives
Heidi Kreeger,
The Importance of Being Earnest: Using
Literature to Combat Climate Change NOW
Audrey Lange,
Philology of the Future: Linguistics and Language Formation in Future Fiction
D'Layne Lee, Symbolism in the
Garden
Breanna Runnels, Questionable
Roles of Women in Science Fiction
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