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The major works of one of the nineteenth century's most influential philosophers In the early days of the American experiment, as the states spread across the continent and the young nation was reshaped by the Industrial Revolution, no intellectual held more power than Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Step-by-step approaches for all types of writing, from essays to academic assignments to workplace emails. Includes chapters covering: fundamental grammar rules and terms; how to construct sentences and choose the right words; the best ways to approach exam essays, research papers, and professional emails; processes for editing and revising your own work to achieve the best possible result.

American Samoa is the only U.S. jurisdiction that does not recognize gender-neutral marriage despite the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision invalidating laws that limit marriage to male–female couples. Among U.S. territories, American Samoa has five unique features: It is the only territory that the United States acquired through negotiation with ruling sovereigns, whose land is largely communally owned, whose residents lack birthright citizenship, that remains under control of the Secretary of the Interior, and that lacks a federal court. This Essay explains how these characteristics have combined to thwart marriage equality in American Samoa. American Samoa’s denial of marriage equality is surprising because for centuries Samoan culture has respected third-gender individuals, called fa‘afafine. Despite this heritage and the Obergefell opinion recognizing the constitutional right to gender-neutral marriage, American Samoa does not allow fa‘afafine to marry their male partners. After documenting the centuries-old Polynesian tradition of respecting third-gender individuals, this Essay shows how current leaders in American Samoa are using suspect precedent to prohibit marriage equality for the fa‘afafine. In a series of racist opinions from 1901, known as the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court held that the U.S. Constitution does not apply to U.S. territories because their residents cannot be entrusted with rights and self-governance. Although all other U.S. territories acceded to Obergefell, American Samoa’s politicians have relied on Insular logic to block marriage equality from reaching America’s most distant territory. This Essay explains the inherent unfairness of allowing the anachronistic Insular Cases to prevent fa‘afafine from having marriage rights today.

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\"Intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around [the author]. With the inside perspective of a native New Englander combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from harnessing wild rivers or legalizing same-sex marriage.\"--Jacket flap.

Much progress has been made toward assessing and improving animal welfare in conservation. However, several glaring knowledge gaps remain where animal-welfare concerns exist but animal-welfare studies have not been performed in politically sensitive contexts. Based on contemporary issues in Australia, we identified 4 topics that require more research: animal-welfare oversight for operations designated as management (as opposed to research); animal-welfare impacts of biological agents used to control invasive animals; welfare of animals hunted recreationally; and animal-welfare impacts associated with indigenous wildlife use. Animal-welfare science may be applied to these sensitive topics through simple quantitative studies (e. g., quantifying the frequency of adverse animal-welfare events). Several such studies have effectively addressed animal-welfare concerns in similarly contentious contexts, including feral camel (Camelus dromedarius) culling in Australia, recreational hunting in Scandinavia, and indigenous whale hunting in the United States. For discussions of animal welfare in conservation to be evidence-based, courageous research is required in the 4 key areas we identified. En la conservación se ha progresado mucho en la evaluacióny el mejoramientodel bienestaranimal. Sin embargo, todavía permanecen varios vacíos evidentes en donde existe preocupación por el bienestar animal, pero los estudios sobre este bienestar no se han realizado en contextos políticamente sensibles. Con base en temas contemporáneos en Australia, identificamos cuatro temas que requieren de más investigación: omisión del bienestar animal por operaciones designadas como manejo (en lugar de investigación); impactos de los agentes biológicos usados para controlar a animales invasores sobre el bienestar animal; bienestar de los animales cazados por recreación; e impactos sobre el bienestar animalasociados con el uso de la faunanativa. La ciencia del bienestar animal puede aplicarse a estos temas sensibles por medio de estudios cuantitativos (p. ej.: cuantificación de la frecuencia de eventos adversos para el bienestar animal). Varios de estos estudios han tratado efectivamente las preocupaciones por el bienestar animal en contextos similarmente polémicos, incluyendo el sacrificio de camellos ferales (Camelus dromedarius) en Australia, la cacería recreativa en Escandinavia, y la caza de ballenas por aborígenes en los Estados Unidos. Para que las discusiones sobre el bienestar animal en la conservación estén basadas en evidencias, se requiere de investigaciones atrevidas en las cuatro áreas clave que identificamos. 在保护中，对动物福利的评估和改善已经取得了很大进展。然而，在动物福利问题尚未解决，却因敏感的 政治环境而难以进行动物福利研究的地方，仍存在几个明显的知识空缺。基于目前澳大利亚面临的问题，我们确 定了四个需要进ー步研究的主题: 为管理(而非研究) 进行特定操作时的动物福利监管;用于控制入侵动物的生 物防治天敌对动物福利的影响; 娱乐性狩猎中的动物福利问题，以及与原生野生动物利用有关的动物福利问题。 我们认为，可以通过简单的定量研究（如量化危害动物福利的事件发生的频率) 将动物福利科学应用于这些敏 感话题。一些这样的研究已经有效地解决了在类似的有争议的情况下的动物福利问题，包括澳大利亚的野骆骑 CCamelus dromedariusj) 选择性捕杀、斯堪的纳维亚的娱乐性狩猎7以及美国原生鲸类的捕杀。为保证对保护中 动物福利向题的讨论建立在证据之上，我们要勇于在这四个关键领域发起研究.

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In this essay, a Black scholar of the cultural histories of Black women's reproductive lives launches a discussion of generations of racism, health inequities, and violence against Black bodies by looking at Black poet and essayist Dionne Brand's critique of the notion of returning to “the normal” after the Covid-19 pandemic. To what, the essay asks, is everyone so eager to return? The intergenerational wait for Black people's moment of racial reckoning is its own unique biomedical warfare, which cannot end with the end of a pandemic. This warfare undercuts Black people's daily health with anxiety and depression, altering the very chromosomes passed down to their children. To health care providers, bioethicists, and those who practice antiracist health work the author poses these questions: How will you confront anti-Black racism within every formulation of “treatment”—diagnosis, care, medication distribution, physical therapy? How long will the violence against Black lives be dissolved into talking points about our bodies? How can one listen, ethically, to Black people? These, she asserts, are questions of practice, of politics, and of care.