Urban Legend Essay

ATTETON!!!!!!! HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS!!!!! That’s how most urban legends get spread. So One Day we had to do research on what urban legends are and many examples of them. So what is an urban legend you ask? Well an urban legend is a story that it is passed from mouth to mouth, through e-mail and txt massages but is not sure if it’s true or not, but most believes that they are true. There are a lot of urban legends out their three examples of an urban examples are.

The First example of an urban legend is something I like to call coke-cane
It was a rumor going around that the coco-cola that we love today use to contain one of the most deadly drugs in the world. Cocaine most people didn’t believe that but according to snoops. Com and a lot of research I come to find out that coco cola use to have cocaine in it to use as a medicine. But how did thy have such a bad drug cure someone illness? When cocaine alone gets people sick and can kills them. It just doesn’t make sense to me. But Later on they took it out and made coca cola a popular drink that we love today.


The Second Example of an urban legend is that in the month of January is the perfect month to break up with your spouse. I personally believe that this is true. Because every year people break up rite after Christmas because they got their gift and it’s about to be spring and that’s when everyone become single and just enjoy there self for the good weather. But some people think the best time to break up with your Boy friend &Girl friend around the middle of February because of the season change. And you don’t have to have nobody breathing down your back in the summer time. And get them back around the fall time right when school start back up. Well that’s just how people around me do it.
My third and last urban legend is the old yellow five myths. About two years ago a little rumor came around that if you drink Mountain Dew or eat hot cheetos( or any thing with Yellow 5 in it) They penis would get smaller and they well produce less sperm cells. For A long time men were afraid to drink or eat anything with yellow 5 in it. They ended up taking this to the real scientist and did some research and this is not true THANK GOD!!! Because I like drinking Mountain Dew and Lemon heads.

These were three examples that I thought was right to describe what an urban legends was I heard most of these urban legends from school or forwarded text massages. And that’s how most of the urban legends get so much controversy in the media and the public. So nest time your best friend or your crazy aunt try to tell you something crazy like you can get cancer from microwaving plastics and food get cancer. Don’t just up and believe them or just don’t be like “man whatever”. Try to do some research on it and see rather if it was true or not.

Pictures that Lie

The five pictures that stood out to me were The time magazine with a split picture of OJ Simpson with one picture on the right make him looks scary. And the picture on the left is more brigh er and less scary . and the second one was the picture in black in white in one side it's a picture with all white people and one black person. But on the right it's the same picture itsept the black person is cut out of the picture. And the thrid picture is the picture of ophra when she is posing on a pile of money. They just pasted her body on somone eles body... The foruth picture is the picture when that lady when she has all white on with a white motorcycle. The fith and final out of my top five is the picture with the helcopter and on the bottom theres just a helacopter over the water. But in the top picture it's a shark trying to eat the man on the lader.. so they were trying to make the scen more actioney. The one that catch my eyes is the oj Simpson one because the media will aulture a picture to make somthing bad or good. there was no reason to darken the party but just to make a satement to say that he's a bad person and that what he did was bad. But in reality he was the victom. The media Dose Things like that to manepulate the poeple minds.

the impact of voilence in the media have on us

In the past week we talked about how violence in the media have a big effect on us in our daily life's. I can tell you that's true because everything we see or hear we have to immite the same thing. Like for example. Before Gangsta music came out there was not as many murders herd or talked about. But When N.W.A Came out in the late 80's earily 90's thats all you heard about is who killed who shot who. It's Like what they rapped about the inner city belived they had to lived that so they can be "hard". And The violent video games Like "Grand Theft Auto" And "Hit Men". Some People don't know the difference between fiction and realitly. and Take Fiction to the real life and try to do the things that they do in the video games in real life on there freinds and enimens. And Another Example is the movies that we watch. Like menace to socity, Boyz n da hood, amercian gangster, Godfather. And All Them videos Are all Gangster Movies With Durgs and violence and lots of it. That's infulenced by the music so all of the media is like a big circle because the movies inspier the the rappers and the rappers and the movies inspier the actors and director. and the video games is a mixture of the two. And what peopole hear in the music make some people scared to visti the urban areas where the music come from or where the movie is based on. All You have to rember is that its all jus fiction and that they do it to make money.