El Chupacabra: Legend or Beast

El chupacabra is a legendary creature that has been running around Mexico, and various parts of Centralcentral America after its initial sitting in March 1995 in Puerto Rico when a farmer found his 150 livestock animals were dead bloodsuck. But the chupacabra also dates back in Mayan culture stories reveal a creature with a bat or lizard like face two arms and has the ability to turn into a statue. It even had a sharp snout that lends itself as a service that could suck blood from animals. And findings have been found identify terms like “goat sucker” in Mayan literature

I have decided to do my thrid quarter project on “El Chupacabra”. El Chupacabra is a myth or legend centered from Puerto Rico. I have grown much interest in this folktale. The mysterious and puzzling creature brings great interest to me. I’m eager to learn more about the Chupacabra. So with interest I believe this topic would be the correct choice for me.

Since the beginning of time vampires have been categorized into different "types” and are portrayed in different ways throughout several books. This paper will focus on three vampires from the following books: Dracula by Bram Stoker, and I am Legend by Richard Matheson. Dracula is considered to be the traditional vampire, where it all started, and the vampires in Matheson’s book, follow somewhat Stoker’s concept, but is more of a modern “type” of vampires. Certain vampire elements have been presented, but others have been completely removed or altered. In addition, elements along with appearances are used to infer if the vampire is a form of “the other”. There are two types of vampires; the traditional or modern vampire which can be distinguished based on the elements present in their storyline.

On Mr. Mendal’s website, he states that “anyone can kill a Chupacabra if they have

Spirituality and ethical behavior are related because they both require a sense of connection to something bigger than us. Spirituality involves the search for meaning in our lives and ethical behavior is sticking with those behaviors, being fair,

Ironically just two years later I owned a pair of my own pet rats in highschool, I know that they are not the monsters that I was made to believe but smart, clean and loving animals when raised properly. Unfortunately this kind of fallacy is not uncommon, we all hold beliefs that are wrong but have not been challenged or confronted before. Carl Sagan, a prominent astrophysicist and professor, touches on these topics in his essay “The dragon in my garage”, In this essay he confronts the idea that it’s possible to believe something that to others is obviously false by constructing an imaginary dragon as an illustration. Though it is well known that dragons are not real, he uses this as a thought experiment to describe the misplaced beliefs that people can hold. In his example Sagan’s dragon cannot be measured for all intents and purposes besides rare physical manifestations of it’s power, yet people choose to believe it’s existence based solely off these small and refutable pieces of evidence. Despite Sagan’s effort to disprove this dragon does all he can to disprove this dragon, by coming up with a myriad of ways to test its existence yet it is unsuccessful as the dragon is always one step ahead of

In the reading “Monsters” By Andrew J. Hoffman in the section by Mike Davis called “Monsters and Messiahs” talk about the Urban Legend The Chupacabra. In the section, Davis uses the word “Messiahs” in discussing The Chupacabra because the monster was considered a leader of a particular group. The particular group would have to be in Mexico The Chupacabra was first brought in Puerto Rico. But then travel to California in the city of San Fernando. The Chupacabra has a made a big impact on people's viewing. The chupacabra is an urban legend, it is combined with varieties of animals put together. The chupacabra was called a Messiah because it was a lightning rod for immigrant anxiety. Meaning whenever something tragic would happen in the community

The legend of the Chupacabra says many things about the human race. One prominent thing it says about humanity is the need to explain the supernatural. Humans have always fabricated explanations to make sense of abnormal happenings. A few examples besides the legend of the Chupacabra are Bigfoot, werewolves, the Loch Ness Monster, and vampires. People do not like not knowing something. They need explanations. Humans would rather make up a scary monster than believe wild animals could kill their cattle. They do not want to be scared of every living creature. A community will unknowingly create a monster so they only fear one creature, rather than every creature. Another thing the legend of the Chupacabra says about

Question 1 1 out of 1 points Since passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, all __________ of controlled substances have themselves become controlled substances. Selected Answer: Answers: b. analogs a. agonists b. analogs c. antagonists d. designer drugs

In 2014, ten thousands of unaccompanied men, women, and children primarily from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala traveled to the United States seeking asylum. This mass immigration was characterized by the United States government as a humanitarian crisis and gained widespread media and congressional attention around the United States. Large majority of this attention was speculation about the cause of increase in immigration and plausible U.S. responses. The United States government along with the Department of Homeland Security created specific strategies to control immigration along the “Northern Triangle” and throughout Mexico. Yet, the assumption that such strategies would effectively deter Central Americans from trying to cross the

A key element of the fantasy / horror / gothic genres is to fascinate and intrigue readers through stories that pose the “what if” questions, thereby teaching us something new about the society we live in. Sometimes these stories are helpful in explaining difficult concepts of good and evil, science and religion. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, the mythical horror creatures, the vampires, have many differences in their mythical abilities, functionality and origin; however, they both serve to underline themes that remind the reader of what makes us human and what defines us as ultimately good or evil. Stoker’s Count Dracula is the product of a religious strike against the antagonist whereas the vampires in I Am

The generalization for vampires has been displayed in films and literature for hundreds of years. The stereotypical versions of vampires are that they have long fangs, sleep in coffins during the day, and suck the blood out of humans. Both novels contradict those stereotypes in different ways. To understand the diversity of the vampires described in both novels, one must examine the characteristics that the vampires display and the meaning and purpose behind them. David D. Gilmore’s book “Monsters” analyzes monsters and other mythical creatures. Gilmore describes why humanity invented the idea of

At times when illegal immigration has been the subject of much debate in the United States, there have been many conspiracy theorist claiming that there have been many sightings of migrants from outside this planet. These sighting of alien and unidentified flying object (UFO) has been topic of discussion for relatively long time now. This video is 1991 interview with Amaury Rivera Toro, one of the alien witnesses, who claims to have been abducted by aliens in Puerto Rico on May 14, 1988. Throughout the interview, Rivera tells his tale of abduction, encounter with the aliens, who were human like, and presents the picture of the UFO. The video is then followed by an interview with a conspiracy theorist who has been working on the similar cases and supports the claims made by Rivera.

Charismatic. Charming. Sensual. Beautiful. Would you ever use these adjectives to describe a vampire? The common theme in portraying vampires in literature has always involved depictions of great violence, ugliness, and fear. Novels involving vampires never portrayed the vampire as a heroic character, but rather as the villain who was then destroyed in the end. Stereotypical vampires terrorized towns, lived in grim, dark, towering castles and turned into bats when in trouble. Authors were simply not inspired to build a tale around the life of a vampire, his shortcomings, his doubts, his fears. Rather, authors used the vampire as a metaphor for evil that resides in humanity.

Punter and Byron reinforce this claim by stating that, “Dracula is associated with disruption and transgression of accepted limits and boundaries” (231). It is relevant to consider the aggressive behavior of Dracula towards his victims while he is on the prowl to fulfill his thirst for blood, especially with Lucy and Reinfield and the image of female vampires feeding on young children (Lucy). This bolsters the notion that the depiction of vampires in early portrays was violent. Also, as a sexually powerful creature, he preyed on men and women to fulfill his desires. The sexual representation of vampires is also evident from Ernest Jones’ early analysis of folktales, including the vampire. He proceeded to conclude that vampire’s and their counterparts, namely the Churel (India) and the Drud (vampires that prey exclusively on other vampires), do not confine themselves to sucking blood; rather “in the unconscious mind, blood is commonly associated with semen” (106). It would be inaccurate to associate these references to anything but the erotic nature of older folktales. Even in Dracula, the Count is portrayed as a seductive aristocrat who sucks on the blood of men and women, alike. The homosexual aspect of vampire tales is also apparent in “Carmilla” (Joseph le- Fanu 1872). As pointed out by Punter and Byron, Laura experiences intense erotic advances from the female vampire, to the extent of being puzzled