TÍTULO: Paulie, el loro bocazas,.Trini Alvarado,.INGLÉS,.
Paulie es un loro simpático y parlanchín que inicia un viaje para encontrarse con su dueña Marie, de la que ha sido separado.Trini Alvarado,.
Alvarado recently appeared on the Fox TV show Fringe.
Alvarado was born in New York City, the daughter of Sylvia, a Puerto Rican flamenco dancer, and Domingo Alvarado, a Spanish-born flamenco singer.[1][2][3] She attended the Professional Children's School and also studied at Fordham University. Alvarado admitted in a People magazine interview for the movie Stella, "I lead kind of a quiet life. I just grew up that way." [4] Alvarado more or less stays out of the limelight and is a self-described homebody; she revealed during the promotion for The Frighteners, "It's just difficult to go away. I was very nervous about having to go to New Zealand for nearly seven months [to make The Frighteners]. I was very tragically saying goodbye to everybody."[5]
Presently residing in New York City, Alvarado is married to actor Robert McNeill.[1] They now have a daughter and a son.[citation needed]
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Alvarado made her show business debut at the age of seven when she joined her family's dance troupe,[6] and that led to roles on stage, including the role of Melinda in Elizabeth Swados' Broadway musical Runaways in 1978. Alvarado was featured, along with Karen Evans, on the song "Lullaby From Baby to Baby", denoted by Swados as the "theme song" of the musical.[7] The next year, she starred in Rich Kids alongside John Lithgow and Jeremy Levy, and she lent her vocals to the ending song "Happy Ida and Broken-Hearted John".[8] The same year, she appeared in the ABC Afterschool Special "A Movie Star's Daughter" as Dena McKain, her first of two appearances in the series (her second was the 1981 special Starstruck).In 1980, Alvarado appeared in Times Square with Tim Curry and Robin Johnson, in which she and Johnson sang together "Your Daughter is One."
There followed roles in a string of TV shows and movies before she appeared on the big screen again, in Gillian Armstrong's 1984 drama Mrs. Soffel. In 1985, Alvarado took on the role of Anne Frank in the off-Broadway musical Yours, Anne. The following year, she starred as the title character in Maggie Magalita, another off-Broadway production.
Her next roles — the young Lisa Titus in the ill-fated 1987 film The Chair, the tough, smart-aleck May "Mooch" Stark in the frank, girl-dominant teen movie Satisfaction — led up to playing the daughter of Stella Claire (portrayed by Bette Midler), in another version of Stella. Midler and Alvarado bonded on set and even performed an impromptu duet of the chorus of the Beatles' "If I Fell" during Alvarado's screen test, which led to Alvarado being cast.[4]
After Stella, Alvarado played the role of Elinor Hartley in American Friends, which Michael Palin both wrote and starred in. Alvarado later worked alongside John Goodman again on the 1992 biopic The Babe, playing the role of Helen Woodford Ruth.
Alvarado would get the chance to work with director Gillian Armstrong again on the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women. When asked about the role, she said, "I am Hispanic and Meg... is not a Hispanic, but even so they gave me the part. But I understand the situation. I understand it because sometimes I see a film about Hispanics, where none of actors is Hispanic, and I feel bad about that. I'd feel particularly bad if they hadn't allowed me to audition, when they said that they'd already seen all the Hispanics in Hollywood, which isn't true." [9] She and her cast mates endured lessons in Victorian life, including proper etiquette, and restricting dresses. About the women's limiting garb, Alvarado said, "It's so obvious why women were thought of as the weaker sex. I don't know if it was a subconscious desire of designers to hold women back, but you can't even take a full breath [in these dresses]." [9] Generally well received by critics and audiences, Little Women showcased Alvarado in one of her most-known roles to date, alongside Pamela Pearl from Times Square.
Alvarado's next film was 1995's The Perez Family, co-starring Alfred Molina, Anjelica Huston and Marisa Tomei. The next year saw the release of The Frighteners, Peter Jackson's horror/comedy film about a con artist who sees ghosts, and The Christmas Tree, the directorial debut of actress Sally Field. Alvarado is better known for the first, even though The Frighteners wasn't hugely popular during its initial release. In the making-of documentary included with the revamped DVD, Alvarado admitted to enduring bruises because of the active, violent scenes in the movie and to being "cursed"; an ice cream truck from a local New Zealand vendor would go by playing "Greensleeves" every time Jackson did a close-up on her and make her break character.[10]
After making an appearance in the last minutes of Paulie (1998), as the grown-up Marie Altweather, Alvarado would not appear on the big screen again until 2006, in the critically acclaimed film Little Children.
She played various roles on the small screen, appearing alongside Eric Stoltz for the third time, in 2000's The Last Dance amid a string of TV guest appearances and movies. Most recently, she played the role of Samantha Loeb in the Fox TV sci-fi drama Fringe, appearing in two episodes in 2008 and 2009. Alvarado has parts in the upcoming film All Good Things, which also stars former co-star Kirsten Dunst, and The Good Guy, which had been screened at the Tribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2009.
Alvarado has provided the voice-over for the audio books Tricksters Choice, Tricksters Queen and the series Alanna: Song of the Lioness Quartet, written by Tamora Pierce. Alvarado has also voiced Debbie Macomber's Changing Habits.
TÍTULO: EL FERROCARRIL SUBTERRANEO,.
El ferrocarril subterráneo (en inglés, Underground Railroad) fue una red clandestina organizada en el siglo XIX en Estados Unidos y Canadá para ayudar a los esclavos afroamericanos que escaparan de las plantaciones del sur hacia estados libres o Canadá.1 2
El nombre de Ferrocarril Subterráneo viene por el hecho de que sus miembros utilizaban términos ferroviarios de modo metafórico para referirse a sus actividades.
Por ejemplo, los conductores o maquinistas eran quienes ayudaban a los negros fugitivos en los propios estados esclavistas de Sur. Les proporcionaban disfraces, mapas, instrucciones sobre sitios para hospedarse y en ocasiones los acompañaban guiándoles durante el trayecto.
Eran por lo tanto activistas muy audaces, pues en aquella época el ayudar a esclavos fugitivos estaba castigado incluso con la muerte.
Otros activistas establecían estaciones del ferrocarril, es decir, lugares (normalmente casas particulares) a donde los fugitivos llegaban y podían esconderse, comer, descansar, recibir asistencia médica, e información sobre la siguiente etapa del viaje. Por ejemplo el matrimonio de cuáqueros formado por Levi y Catherine Coffin, que vivían en Newport, Indiana, fueron jefes de estación por más de veinte años y en este tiempo pasaron por su casa (la estación) unos 2.000 esclavos fugitivos.
Los esclavos fugitivos eran los pasajeros. Las rutas de escape se llamaban carriles. La jefatura era la Estación Central, y los estados del norte o Canadá eran el destino.
Los miembros de Ferrocarril Subterráneo operaban en la clandestinidad y normalmente solo se conocían entre sí por sus seudónimos, para no comprometer su seguridad. También hacían jurar a los pasajeros que guardarían el secreto.
El Ferrocarril Subterráneo buscaba a sus colaboradores dentro del movimiento abolicionista, del que era parte, y así iba extendiendo sus actividades siempre al margen de la ley.
Quizá el personaje más famoso y popular en la historia del Ferrocarril Subterráneo fue Harriet Tubman, a quien llamaban la Moisés de los esclavos, y que fue una conductora que había nacido esclava en Maryland y que se escapó en 1848. Una vez llegada al Norte y alcanzada su libertad se incorporó al Ferrocarril Subterráneo y en los años siguientes regresó hasta 19 veces al Sur para ayudar a escapar a cientos de esclavos. Los esclavistas llegaron a ofrecer una recompensa por capturarla viva o muerta, pero ella siguió con su labor.
El Ferrocarril Subterráneo funcionó hasta que tras la Guerra de Secesión (1861–1865) se abolió definitivamente la esclavitud. Las personas que habían colaborado con el Ferrocarril Subterráneo jugaron un importante papel en la guerra por la instrucción recibida y el conocimiento del terreno.
A lo largo de su existencia, el Ferrocarril Subterráneo consiguió liberar a miles de esclavos y también influyó en la opinión publica para ganar partidarios a la causa abolicionista.
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