Urban legends

Urban Legends Essay

Have you ever heard of a rumor that might be true or just made up? Like, have you ever heard of an urban legend ever? Well I am going to tell you what it truly means which are popular stories that are alleged to be true which spreads like a rumor which is like person to person by written communication. So we have all heard urban legends stories. Like about coca-cola, about pop rocks or either Ciara being born a male and not a female. See I have three interesting urban legends that I have found as well that I think I should share with you. Like have you heard of the youngest girl that gave birth was a 5 year old. Another, one is that turkey makes people really sleepy, and last but not least a south American camper was eaten by a anaconda snake.

First thing that I am going to tell you about is the 5 year old girl. Her name was Lina Medina and she was a 5 year old girl that was Peruvian, and she lived In a Andean village. Now, here the weird thing. Her parents thought that their daughter had a tumor but when they took lina to the doctor, that’s when they told the parents that she was pregnant. When she was three years old she was starting periods. Nobody knows who the father of the baby is since lina wasn’t able to talk at that time but she delivered the baby on May 20, 1939. When the son was at least 10 years old he thought that lina was his sister. Then he found out that she was his mother. Gerardo was the sons name and he died in 1979 and lina had another son the same year by her husband. So by this urban legend on snopes.com they say that this a true story.


The second thing that I am going to tell you about is turkey makes people sleepy. Like have you ever heard of a slogan saying “someone must have slipped them some turkey”. Well the reason why they have created that slogan is because they say that if you went to the restaurant called KFC, well if you think about it after you eat there chicken or something you atomically want to fall asleep. In the early 1980’s they had put L-trytophan to the public. It helped people with insomnia, appetite control, depression, premenstrual syndrome, stress reduction and etc…. but by 1989 they had a problem with the product and told everyone to stop using it. The L-Trytophan it caused major effects and like serious symptoms, like it had caught over 1,500 people and killed at least 37. So by eating a turkey leg or a part of a turkey then you have the symptoms of getting sleepy. Now you think this story is true, well your wrong its false ha-ha.

Final urban legend I am going to tell you about is about a southern camper that has been eaten by a anaconda. Now they were in south America of course and they say that it was a young camper that was eaten. We have pictures and everything to prove it by going to snopes.com. But do you know what even with the pictures it’s actually false. See what they did was they took pictures of a python snake, and what the snake had eaten was a pig because it is impossible to eat something as big as a human. And the second picture is a old photo of a guy laying and died in a jungle. So it is actually a false story with made up facts.

Now the legends of a 5 year old having a baby, why turkey makes people sleepy and also a anaconda ate a human is urban legends but are really false tales. Except for one that is true. Now the only thing is that nobody knows why the create these legends. Like they can be doing this because they are enjoying peoples reaction to the story or whatever else but just know that you will never know what they can write about next. IT MAYBE YOU HAHAHAHAH. Just kidding but that can happen if you start telling people information on stuff that you make up because anything can happen.

Blog #7 Picture Images

Picture#6 - well the picture is about a Britain soldier who is telling the Bastian's to take cover after the us had came and invaded Iraq.
Picture#11-this picture is showing a article of Oprah and saying how she is the richest woman in on television by using Oprah face and putting it on top of a models body
Picture#21-this picture is showing antlered rabbit and it shows them standing on the field.
Picture#23-This picture is showing how diverse the university of Wisconsin is by putting a black man in a college hockey game.
Picture#1- This picture is showing Katie Couric and how they have change her size in different pictures.




The picture that stood out to me the most is picture number 6. The reason why I Chose this photo is because like they are basically showing that we are the bad guys in this situation. Like we have control of everthing that is going on in Iraq, but we don't. So like they should show the goods things that we do as well other then killing other citizens. LIke of course we have to do what we came down there for but does it mean that we are actualy the bad people like isn't it a equal accomplishment in this statement.

Violence of the Media

Example 1: Video Games is a example of how violence becomes more popular these days. Like, on the video games by like when you are beating your opponent then you encourage yourself to do better or to defeat them. Then, after you are done and you see how you feel afterwards by killing them, you feel good and confident.So when you come back to reality some people would take the video games into consideration and actually do violent things to people and expect the same things from the video games to happen.

Example 2: Movies is an example of how violence becomes very popular during these generations. Like, when you are watching a guy shooting a gun towards other people basically killing people then you think it's OK . Like little kids watch movies or shows that are showing that it is OK to fight people so they take that literally and actually use violence as an answer to everything .

Example 3: The Television channel news is also another way of how violence is occur in the world by telling people the violent incidents that are caused by violence. So when it is broadcast it makes people scared for there lives because they don't want to get shot or killed or anything else that's involve in those type of ideas. Some people are also encouraged by this and think it is cool so that how some of the same crimes are committed again .

Hip Hop #1

"When I hear a rap song, I pay more attention to the beat then to the lyrics." The reason why I chose this quote because it's true because i love to dance.Like i don't like hard rap so if i do listen to it, then it has to be because of the beat. Like, some of these songs don't have messages that i would consider a positive message. Some things are like more of a dance type music or theme where people would just listen to the music so they can dance off of or either to make a dance routine too. Like the rapper Jadakiss had said"It's only-at the end of the day,it's only entertainment."For all you know like a lot of these hip hop artist don't write these songs like the record labels or producers write them so a lot of times it the songs doesn't make since AT ALL, but then again some of them give powerful messages as well but like I said i mostly listen to rap only for the beat not really the lyrics. Although some songs i do have to admit like I have said before give powerful messages so like if i do listen to it then it's a good reason. So that is my opinion to what i think about the topic.

Movies

Well we had watch two movies on Tuesday and Wednesday. Which on Tuesday it was about how men discriminated women in there articles or advertisements by showing off there body's and if there were men then it would have been a different story. Now on Wednesday we had watch a movie about how men and boys act and why they are the way they are. Well now to make a comparis between the two movies in order for them to be the same. The movies were mostly talking about how they were talking about abuse between the males and females. Now the only difference between that is that in the movie on Tuesday is that they were talking about how they used abuse in a sexual manner and how it can cause a huge problem through the world, give them rong message. Now on Wednesday they were talking about how the males be to aggressive and like they are most likely raise to be tough, on the other hand sometimes it can become really abusive and like it turns to a battle. So, like the abuse they do with the fighting with each other and towards women becomes a Major problem and it's like it increase more and more every year.Let's see what is another comparison well like on both of the movies they talk about how people change when they become like a teenager or like hoe they try to increase they body's by having the bigger breasts or like for the guys for them to have the biggest muscles just to show off what they have. Now the differences is that like the guys do it to prove that they are strong and independent and like to also show out for the girls. For the girls sake they do it all for they guys or either there careers.

Super Bowl

Well i have learn a whole bunch of new things about the super bowl advertisement, that some of the stuff i wouldn't even imagine. Like, to do advertisement it is REALLY expensive to do any type of advertising,to do an commercial it takes at least 30 to 300,000 dollars. I know that's a lot of money!!!!! Let's see also like when you just look at a commercial it's not jus making a seen for the product that they are trying to sell. The advertisement that they are selling it also has it's purpose for why they made there commerical a certain way. Like, their is a message that they are trying to persuae to the audience that they are showing the commericals to. Now I know your probably wondering how the people that make or produce the commericals or products how do they get there money, which is a great question? The answer to that is buy you looking at the advertisement then they recieve the same amout of money from the viewers.

Key Concept

The key concept that I understand best is concept number four which says, " Media have embedded values and points of view." This concept says that for every article they have certain opinon or sterotypes of what the commerical is adveritising. Like for example, they will have a a old lady sitting in a chair, right. " What is the sterotype for this article? Well my answer is that every little old lady is very angry or either depressed. Now I will give you another example is that ok when thafrican americans to make their hair more healthy. Now "what is the sterotype for this advertisment? Well, my opinon is that mostly only black girls use this type of product for there hair.ere is a advertising saying that Dr.Miracle is the right treatment to use on your hair for if you have thick hair.