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Research Paper On Mandela Effect

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As a young girl Nelson Mandela was an inspiration to me. My grandparents raised me, my grandmother is Caucasian and my grandfather an African American. I was always interested in learning about my culture and what it was like before when my grandparents were little. So a man who was in prison because he fought for what he believed in truly fascinated me. My grandpa, who I spent most of my time with, was interested by conspiracy theories. One of our favorites was The Mandela Effect, changing the way we see it, read it and remember it. Taking that he was my best friend we would talk about the mandela effect all the time. We talked about a few, did 9/11 occur on 9/11 or on 9/12? As I got older we asked “How do you spell Febreeze? F-e-b-r-e-e-z-e? …show more content…

“...despite the fact that if you type 'Mandela Effect' into Wikipedia you're whisked straight to a page entitled 'Confabulation' ("a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive)!" (Theresa) On the Wikipedia page for the Mandela effect, there is a page that talks about your memory being “fabricated” or “distorted.” Not many people take it seriously and just dismiss it, despite all the evidence for it. “Nine of the ten people I've told about this have suggested (in soothing tones, while subtly scanning for sharp objects) that The Work May Be Getting To Me.” (Theresa) Theresa asked 10 of her colleagues about the Mandela Effect and proceeded to ask them questions, to which 9 out of the 10 responded with answers different from her own. She also realizes that not many people believe in it and doesn't get upset or angry about it, she just hopes that one day it will all be explained somehow. As it's shown in Theresa's article, the Mandela Effect has a high chance of being real and not just a …show more content…

The riddle making book lovers mad,” the journalist focuses more on the children's book, ‘The Berenstain Bears,’ which most people remember it to be spelled with an E and not an A. The NZ Herald, also has a slightly different view on the Mandela Effect. Instead of there being multiple alternate universes, there is one, and there are people who traveled back in time and “tampered” with the past and somehow it changed minor things, like the spelling of a children's book. “No one really knows. But I've quizzed friends, family and acquaintances and they all came back with Berenstein. With an E. It seems everyone I know is wrong. Or are we? And this is where the whole Berenstain business gets eerie. How can so many people all be wrong about the exact same thing? How can something I'm so certain of, that I vividly remember, be hopelessly incorrect?” (The New Zealand) This journalist talks about more people supporting the Mandela Effect and having the same memories about the past as the author

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