Las Invasiones Inglesas en el Río de la Plata

Las Invasiones Inglesas fueron una serie de expediciones militares de la corona británica que atacaron el Virreinato del Río de la Plata a principios del Siglo XIX. Dejó claramente que las tropas metropolitanas eran incapaces de defender colonias. Creció un espíritu guerrero de los criollos que habían colaborado en la defensa de Buenos Aires y también ideas de unión y fraternidad entre los ciudadanos de esta ciudad. Se plantearon nuevas ideas revolucionarias que proponían la independencia de España.

Ya que el Virrey Sobremonte, quién en 1806 (primera invasión inglesa) se retiró de Córdoba en busca de ayuda militar y en 1807 (segunda invasión inglesa) no interpuso resistencia alguna. Liniers convocó a una junta de guerra para destituírlo. Se dió a conocer el Cabildo y a Martín Álzaga, quién organizó la resistencia de los habitantes de Buenos Aires.

La necesidad de defender a Buenos Aires de los ataques ingleses produjo una militarización de la ciudad, con formación de milicias. A partir del servicio militar, Liniers estableció milicias de españoles, milicias de criollos, milicias de indios, pardos y morenos. 

Movie Review: The Parent Trap

"The Parent Trap"

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The Parent Trap. This amazing movie directed by Nancy Meyers was released in 1998, and it is a story about these two girls, who discovered in the Walden Camp that they were twins, separated by their parents the year they divorced, in 1997. The story goes on and on when the girls, called Anne and Hallie, agreed on carrying on this kind of plan, which consists in that Hallie finally meets her mother and Anne, her father, but changing their personalities to become one in another

 Everything seems perfect when each girl gathers either with their mother or father until Anne finds out- in Hallie’s shoes- that Nicholas Parker, her father, was going to marry a twenty-six year-old woman called Meredith Blake. This allows the girls’ plan to start to fall, as one of the objectives of it was to reunite their parents. Nevertheless, they found a back-up plan, where they arrange to join Elizabeth James, their mother, with Nicholas in a hotel in San Francisco, where the wedding was going to be held. Finally, Elizabeth and Nicholas get together again, renewing their wedding vows and living together in London as a family.  

 The main characters, Anne and Hallie, were taken to life by Lindsay Lohan, who performed both the twins. According to this information given, the special effects were fundamental for the people involved in the play, as they have to make that these two girls, who in reality are only one actress, playing both roles, to meet and speak each other.

 As a conclusion, is very well organized, either by the actors, the places they used- because it takes place in two different countries, United States and Great Britain. Also, it involves the spectator into the girls’ lives, trying to communicate what the girls felt growing up either with their father or their mother. This is shown in the girls’ desire of meeting them. In addition, the rest of the actors taking part of the movie are very well skilled, trying to express the situation of their dialogue.

By: Valentina Abreu Salomón and Marina Lecour