Urban Legends

I was reading some urban legends and i think they are just stories, strange and scary, some very scary stories, that were told to warn people. Because while i was reading,  something came to my mind.
when
 i was a kid my family and i used to go to the countryside. I remember there was, or i imagine it´s still there, a big lemongrass tree. My family and neighbors used to tell us  that  at nights on the tree there was a  "man with no head", just because they didn´t want us to get away from the house in those nights without electricity cause it was so dark.
And this is funny cause we didn´t pay attention to that and we took it as a game: we used to go there together, very close to each other, and  almost getting to the tree somebody screamed and then all of us ran screaming too. That was scary but funny at the same time.

So, i think that if some of  urban legends were true, people changed or added something to created warnings, so that we are careful.

Baseball

Last week in the class we were talking about baseball, and to be honest i do not like and know anything about baseball. I just know the names of the dominican teams: like  Licey, Aguilas, Escogidos, ect.

So, to talk about baseball i decided to looked for some  information on the internet.
I found that this game is played between two teams of nine players. In the field there are four bases: first, second, third and home plate. So, to score a point the batting, or the player who is batting, hits the ball, which is thrown by the pitcher, and by running advances around the bases and returns to home plate. If the batting has three strikes he is out or struck out.

The beginning of American Baseball and Japanese Baseball

                                                Unit three: J-Ball

The beginning of American Baseball and Japanese Baseball

Even though football is the most popular sport in the world, baseball has become the sport most watched and played in the world. The original name of baseball was townball, which developed in the early nineteenth century in the northeastern United States. The field dimensions that are used today were standardized by Alexander Cartwright in 1840.Henry Chadwick, a sportwriter, wrote the first rule book for baseball in 1858. The Cincinnati Red Stockings was the first professional baseball team organized in 1869. In 1876, the National League was established, and the rival American League in 1901.

On the other hand, the Japanese professional baseball or J-Ball, as is known since 1958, was introduced in Japan by Horace Wilson, an American teacher, in 1873. In the beginning, J-Ball was played in schools as a way to create stronger minds and bodies. In 1920, the first professional team was formed in Tokyo, called Shibaura Club. In 1935, Dainippon Tokyo Baseball Club was founded, which later became the famous Yomirui Giants. The most famous Japanese players are Tetsuharu kawakami, who was nicknamed the God of Batting; Shigeno Nagashima, who was the most revered player; and Eiji Sawamura, who was the great pitcher of Japan. 

  

American Baseball and Japanese Baseball have been intertwined. Many American players have come to Japan, such as, Dave Nilsson and Leon Lees. In  addition to this, Japanese players also have gone to the United States, such as, Mikami Goro, Nomo Hido, and Suzuki Ichiro.

       

 
                                                                 Alexander Cartwright
 


  

                                                  Cincinnati Red Stockings

Henry Chadwick                                   

 

Manuel Arístides "Manny" Ramírez Onelcida (born May 30, 1972) is a Dominican-American professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who is a free agent. Previously he played in Major League Baseball with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, and Tampa Bay Rays. Ramirez is recognized for great batting skill and power, a nine-time Silver Slugger and one of 25 players to hit 500 career home runs. His 21 grand slams are third all-time, 29 post-season home runs the most in big league history. He appeared in 12 All-Star Games, a streak of eleven consecutive beginning in 1998 including every season that he played with the Boston Red Sox.
Ramirez was allegedly among a group of 104 major league players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during 2003.^[1] In 2009 he was suspended 50 games for violating baseball's drug policy by taking human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a women's fertility drug.^[2] According to steroid dealer Victor Conte, hCG is often used to restart natural testosterone production after a steroid cycle.^[3]
In the spring of 2011, Ramirez was informed by MLB of another violation to its drug policy. He chose to retire on April 8 rather than face a 100-game suspension.[


 FROM: wikipedia

Hello.

good  afternoon.


I'm  gonna  start  saying  that  i'm  a  storyteller. 

my  grand mother  used  to  tell  me  all kinds of weird and incoherent stories,and all these horror stories, where there was never
a happy ending,where ghosts appear, men without heads, etc.. and I now do the same with my small nephews.And I must say that storytelling is fun ,and more  when  there  are  horror stories, it has a point of staying with the mind of a person for a few minutes , and   the faces are changing and that expression motivates a little  bit, and  more  when they are  child.  jeje.

HELLO  GUYS.   here  i  let  you  a  place where  you  can  found  more  urban  legends.  i hope  you like  it.


The Legend:
A couple checks into a hotel and have to put up with a foul odor in their room all night. They call the staff to complain and somebody figures out the stench is coming from the bed.
Now, there's no way that scenario is going to have a good ending. You're almost hoping at that point that it'll turn out the last guest just got drunk and pooped behind the headboard. But, no, the staff take off the matress and discover the couple has been sleeping over the rotting body of a dead girl who had been stuffed in the box spring.


Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_15628_the-5-creepiest-urban-legends-that-happen-to-be-true.html#ixzz2dZQzOsPv

Can we lernd about urban legends?

Urban legends are scaries stories about rare thinks that anybody knew if it realy happened or not, but anyway people tell them to others as if they were truth,

Here, in Dominican Republic we have a lot of urban legends, for example, "Maria la O".

It tells us that Maria Was a girl who lived near the river, she was a mocking liar and she didn't care what her moder said. Everybody said that she was a bad girl, she didn't belive in God.

It tells us that one holly fryday she went to the river and started swiming and then she became in a half fish, and everybody said that it was a punishment for disobey her mother and for making fun of Gad, then she started to cry so much until to converted the river in the occean.

Fathers tell taht story to teach kids obedience, they say that if they disobey they will run into problems and recieve a big punishment from Gad.

And then, I think that we can use some urban legends to teach good things and learn about life.