The Mandela Effect

1) the above quote is commonly considered to have been written by Frank Outlaw, the late president of Bi-Lo stores. But, some people think it was authored by someone else such as Gandi or even Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Basically the Mandela Effect is a misremembering of a fact or event. It's not called the Mandela Effect because just one person remembers something differently because that could just be a mistake that that one person had made. The Mandela Effect is something much greater than that. It’s when many people recall something that had happened and it turns out to be false. It had got its name because a large amount of people recall Nelson Mandela, a South American political leader, dying in prison during the 1980’s, but he actually died on December 5, 2013. This could have been just a mistake and people thought they had heard the wrong person when they originally heard the news but that wasn't the case. When people heard he had died in 2013

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events." This is a quote by Adrienne Rich, and American poet, which sums up the Mandela Effect extremely well.

Mandela Effects are described as collective false memories, usually of common brand names and logos. Some common Mandela Effects are Looney Tunes, Oscar Mayer, and Froot Loops. These false memories affect us very strongly because we spend months, even years thinking something is one way and when it turns out our memory is wrong, it can rock us.

A fascinating and popular false memory that many people share is from a famous Star Wars scene. “Luke, I am your father” is a well-known phrase from the film but people are starting to realize that’s not what Darth Vader says. Darth Vader says “No, I am your father” which brings up the question why do so many people remember the wrong line? People got angry over this misremembering because it’s such a simple example and there is absolutely no explanation for this besides relating it to the Mandela Effect.The most known representation of the Mandela Effect relates to children’s book series and animated television show The Berenstain/Berenstein Bears. A lot of people distinctly remembering growing up with the series with the title bring called The Berenstein Bears, not The Berenstain Bears. With books and tapes produced with different spellings, it is proof that something happened. It’s not just a bunch of people with false memories, something interesting is going on here, but nobody knows what the cause of all of this is. Those who experience the Mandela Effect may have moved between parallel

Reason To Listen/Credibility- (Then I will Say) Can you imagine yourself at a store, and looking through the candy, food, whichever section you are at, and all of a sudden you see that the popular brand “Febreze” was never spelled “Febreeze”, or “Kit Kat” was never spelled with a dash, “Kit-Kat”. It blows your mind, and you can only help, but wonder how can this be. It test your memory quite a bit and makes you think about how it could’ve changed from the last time you saw that brand to the time it was seen differently in the store that day. The explanation to this phenomena would be “The Mandela Effect.” My interest in this topic came to me when I was walking into an H.E.B, and I saw a Febreze bottle that caught my eye. The Febreze bottle was spelled “Febreze”, and I have always remembered “Febreeze”. When I Got home I went straight to my computer and searched up “Febreze or Febreeze.” The first thing that popped up was the Mandela Effect, and ever since then I have been hooked on this “effect” and its logic. As of right now, I have been looking and searching for more and more theories of this “effect” for a good amount of time, and I believe with my research and study I can show what The Mandela Effect is all about.

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Loftus argues that people can be shaped to remember their past in different ways. She used a study about getting lost in a Mall to show that individuals can be prompted to recollect the whole events that occurred to them (Loftus 74).

What is a possible solution? Signaling to the reader that the quote is coming. This includes stating who the quote came from and how the reader should interpret it.

"Lieutenant Cross kept to himself. He pictured Martha's smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her" (O'Brien 6).

Nelson Mandela’s influence is most evident on Americans politicians than anything else. “Late in the afternoon of Sunday, Feb 11, 1990, the gates of Victor Verster Prison opened and a historic moment millions of people around the planet had awaited for years was at hand: Nelson Mandela, the world’s most noted prisoner of Conscience, walked into the sunlight of freedom” (Fenton). Students who participated in the Divestment Protests in the late 1970’s felt as if they were a part of Mandela’s release from jail. During his first few months of freedom, Mandela became a global ambassador for the African National Congress. In March 1990, only weeks after release, he met with world leaders. In June he set out on a forty–five day, 15 nation tours. He met with several leaders on three continents. When the news leaked that Mandela would visit the US, hundreds of requests for appearances were submitted. “Mandela’s arrival in America on June 20th, 1990 created a sensation. More than 750,000 people lined up on the streets of Manhattan” to catch a sight of the former prisoner (Fenton). Nelson visited the

During the reign of the Apartheid regime Nelson Mandela was born and raised. Nelson Mandela was a South African lawyer and prominent activist. He was also the leader of the African National Congress party and the first black President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He is known for his devotion and struggle against the Apartheid regime.

Memory does not work like a video camera, smoothly recording every detail. Instead, memory is more of a constructive process. We remember the details that we find most important and relevant. Due to the reconstructive nature of memory, the assimilation of old and new information has the ability to cause vulnerable memories to become distorted. This is also known as the misinformation effect (Loftus, 1997). It is not uncommon for individuals to fill in memory gaps with what they assume they must have experienced. We not only distort memories for events that we have observed, but, we may also have false memories for events that never occurred at all. False memories are “often created by combing actual memories with suggestions received from

Imagine being systematically oppressed from the moment you exited the womb. All your civil rights, based on the amount of melanin in your skin. Drinking from the wrong water fountain, could even get you thrown into jail. Coincidently; this was the life, of black South Africans from the moment of Dutch colonization in 1652, to the first true democratic election in 1994. Apartheid, meaning “separateness” in Afrikaans; was legal segregation enforced by The National Party (NP) from 1948 to 1994. It legally imposed preexisting policies of racial discrimination on the Majority of the South African population. The entire basis of the racist policies, was the darker your complexion the less legal rights you had. Presumably this injustice, could have continued much longer if it weren’t for all involved in the fight against the NP, however the man who arguably contributed the most, was Nelson Mandela. He ended an apartheid, with both his philanthropy and political prowess. He united a nation that used to be segregated; which seemed a daunting task at the time, but through the sweat and bloodshed he achieved the impossible. This alone exhibited his heroic characteristics, but to be more precise: both his actions and inactions lead to his success. Furthermore, Mandela was both a strong leader and forgiving at the same-time. Being in the forefront of the abolishment movement, was an extremely risky move during the apartheid. He risked his life for what he believed in, and this personal

The origins of the "Kit Kat" brand go back to 1935, when Rowntree's, a confectionery company based in York in the United Kingdom, trademarked the terms "Kit Cat" and "Kit Kat". Although the terms were not immediately utilised, the first conception of the Kit Kat appeared in the 1920s, when Rowntree launched a brand of boxed chocolates entitled "Kit Cat". This continued into the 1930s, when Rowntree's shifted focus and production onto its "Black Magic" and "Dairy Box" brands. With the promotion of alternative products the "Kit Cat" brand decreased and was eventually discontinued.[2] The original four-finger bar was developed after a worker at Rowntree's York Factory put a suggestion in a recommendation box for a snack that "a man could take