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PROTEST MOVEMENTS PROVIDE A WEALTH OF MATERIAL FOR SPECULATION FROM MANY THEORETICAL VIEWPOINTS. THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SOME OF THESE MOVEMENTS & THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO IN AN ATTEMPT TO CARRY FORWARD AN INQUIRY DEMANDED BY KALMAN SILVERT.

In his excellent target article, Key (2016) develops a mechanistic argument in an attempt to show why it is unlikely that fish can "feel" pain or for that matter, "feel" anything. The topic is controversial and likely to achieve the goal of getting many hits for the inaugural issue of the new journal, Animal Sentience. In my view, the question is unlikely to be answered, for two reasons. First, because the proponents of the "fish feel pain" controversy are untrained and unskilled in the details and jargon of neurophysiology and/or neuroanatomy, and the opponents of the controversy, like Key, are untrained and unskilled in the details and jargon regarding the philosophy of consciousness. Second, the neural substrate of consciousness in any animal, including humans, has not been clearly delineated with absolute certainty.

This problem originated from the laws enacted by the legislature of Texas to consolidate the schools of Texas. This consolidation move has brought about improvements along with some disadvantages. The writer has collected a great deal of information through personal interviews from authoritative sources which he has recognized in his acknowledgements. Because of the increased importance of consolidation in Matagorda County, he has attempted to analyze the system and discuss an efficient plan whereby consolidation has affected educational instruction, offering more advantages than disadvantages on behalf of the youth residents of the rural areas. This study is limited to the consolidation of the following nine schools: (1) Boldin, (2) VanVleck, (3) Allenhurst, (4) Hudgin, (5) Cedar Lane, (6) Live Oak, (7) Cedar Lake, (8) Sargent, and (9) Ashwood. The data was collected from the writer's memoirs of his twenty-five years of service in the county as a pioneer in the consolidation movement, by means of personal interviews with other administrators and officials, and by use of the samples of students from the Ashwood School.

The compound term fan-historian may be used to describe fans who engage in a wide range of memory, archival, and other past-focused fan work, which helps make sense of the past and makes it usable for their communities. Fan-historians may thus be described in an inclusive way that recognizes the common practices that exist between the work of fans and historians; both take curatorial and transformative approaches to knowledge. This formulation also emphasizes the fact that fans are participants in historical work, not merely its subjects. Fan-historians thus work as both fans and historians to produce fan-historical work. This labor is centrally important to fan communities and vital in light of the established links between history and power.

Historical activity around persistent online game environments such as EVE Online and EverQuest is significant and ongoing, particularly as these games age. A wide range of attempts have been made to capture and concentrate tales of those experiences which players have considered significant. Yet as with all historical work, attempts to curate and represent the history of a community are political and often contested. Projects can be compromised by competing interests and by differing perceptions of what does or does not 'count' as history. The distinctions made in this online historical work evoke the debates of contemporary public history: issues of ownership, power and acceptability are central, and the outputs of this historical activity are varied, constituting a short forum thread collecting player reminiscences in one instance, for example, compared with a book-length piece of self-consciously historical writing in another. Yet they also parallel debates within the space of fan studies. This chapter discusses the tension between fandom and history that exists in player communities by examining fanworks as forms of historical work.

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