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****TABLEY DE, JOHN BYRON LEICESTER WARREN, 3RD LORD (1835-1895).**** —Poet, eldest ////s.//// of the 2nd Lord, ////ed.//// at Eton and Oxf., was for a time attached to the British Embassy at Constantinople. He wrote poems of a very high order, some of them ////pub.////under the ////pseudonyms//// of "George F. Preston" and "William Lancaster." They include////Ballads and Metrical Sketches////, ////The Threshold of Atrides////, ////Glimpses of Antiquity////, etc. These were followed by two dramas, ////Philoctetes//// (1866) and ////Orestes//// (1868). Later works in his own name were ////Rehearsals//// (1870), ////Searching the Net//// (1873), ////The Soldier's Fortune////, a tragedy. ////Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical//// (1893) included selections from former works. After his death appeared ////Orpheus in Thrace//// (1901). He was a man of sensitive temperament, and was latterly much of a recluse. He was an accomplished botanist, and ////pub.//// a work on the ////Flora of Cheshire////.  ****TALFOURD, SIR THOMAS NOON (1795-1854).**** —Poet and biographer, ////s.//// of a brewer at Reading, where he was ////b.////, and which he represented in Parliament, 1835-41, was ////ed.//// at Mill Hill School. He studied law, was called to the Bar in 1821, and became a Judge in 1849. He ////d.//// suddenly of apoplexy while charging the Grand Jury at Stafford. He wrote much for reviews, and in 1835 produced ////Ion////, a tragedy, followed by ////The Athenian Captive//// (1838), and ////The Massacre of Glencoe////, all of which were acted with success. T. was the friend and literary executor of Charles Lamb (////q.v.)////, and ////pub.//// in two sections his ////Memoirs and Letters////. In 1837 he introduced the Copyright Bill, which was passed with modifications in 1842.    **Included below is an example of researching, cut and pasting important information, paraphrasing the information, citing the website, and posting on your wiki for your group presentation.
 * TANNAHILL, ROBERT (1774-1810).**** —Poet, ////b.//// in Paisley where he was a weaver. In 1807 he ////pub.//// a small vol. of poems and songs, which met with success, and carried his hitherto local fame over his native country. Always delicate and sensitive, a disappointment in regard to the publication of an enlarged ed. of his poems so wrought upon a lowness of spirits, to which he was subject, that he drowned himself in a canal. His longer pieces are now forgotten, but some of his songs have achieved a popularity only second to that of some of Burns's best. Among these are ////The Braes of Balquhidder////, ////Gloomy Winter's now awa'//// and ////The Bonnie Wood o' Craigielea.////

Mr. Martin-section 5: pp. 78-80, "Harsh Life for Native Americans." A key point that I found interesting is found on page 79 and how the priest Bartolome de Las Casas tried to intercede on behalf of the Native Americans for better conditions. I used the website:** ****http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/theconquest/a/09armsconquest.htm****


 *  In the search box at the top of the page, I typed in "Bartolome de Las Casas," and was given different options of researching this individual and I chose the first option.

I found something very interesting in that it showed that Las Casas did more than petition the government for better conditions for the Native Americans, he actually tried to do something about. It also showed me that throughout history, there were always people who were involved with social justice even with the chance of placing themselves in great harm.

(From the website) First Experiments: Las Casas convinced Spanish authorities to allow him to try and save the few remaining Caribbean natives by taking them out of slavery and placing them in free towns, but the death of King Ferdinand in 1516 and the resulting chaos over his successor caused these reforms to be delayed. Las Casas also asked for and received a section of the Venezuelan mainland for an experiment: he believed that he could pacify the natives with religion, not weapons. Unfortunately, the region that was selected had been heavily raided by slavers, and the natives’ hostility to the Europeans was too intense to overcome.

The Verapaz Experiment:  In 1537, Las Casas wanted to try again to show that natives could be controlled peacefully and that violence and conquest were unnecessary. He was able to convince the crown to let him send missionaries to a region in north-central Guatemala where the natives had proved particularly fierce. His experiment worked, and the natives were brought under Spanish control peacefully. The experiment was called Verapaz, or “true peace,” and the region still bears the name. Unfortunately, once the region was brought under control, greedy colonists took the lands and enslaved the natives, undoing almost all of Las Casas’ work.  This is an example of my paraphrasing the above section from the website, citing my source, and how it would look on your expert group wiki: 

 Mr. Martin-section 5: pp. 78-80, "Harsh Life for Native Americans." ** A key point that I found interesting is found on page 79 and how the priest Bartolome de Las Casas tried to intercede on behalf of the Native Americans for better conditions. I found something that I found very interesting section very interesting because it showed that Bartolome did more than petition the government for better conditions for the Native Americans, he actually tried to do something about. It also showed me that throughout history, there were always people who were involved with social justice even with the chance of placing themselves in great harm.

Las Casas found that even with his interventions on behalf of the Native Americans, he needed to show the government that more needed to be done. He was allowed to take the remaining Caribbean natives to Venezuela to start a free town, but his first attempt failed due to slave traders and hostility from the local natives. His second attempt found him using missionaries in Guatemala to subdue the natives using peaceful means and was successful. That area of Guatemala is still called "true peace." Unfortunately, the greed of the colonists undid Las Casas work as they took native's land and enslaved many of the residents. (Retrieved on November 1, 2009 from [] )