Project 2: Research Paper Compendium                                Choose what you consider to be a monster or monstrosity –  literal                 figurative (ideology, practice)   historical  cryptozoology  Examples: mythology          invention Vlad Tepes         Joseph Stalin  Pablo Escobar  Nazis                 Biological Weapons Assault Rifles Adolf Hitler       the Ku Klux Klan Dylan Roof Griselda Blanco Aileen Wuornos  Fred & Rosemary West Mark Twitchell Jeffrey Dahmer Long Island Serial Killer Jack the Ripper Jim Jones/Jonestown Bigfoot                          Loch Ness Monster the Hydra           Slender Man Michael Myers  Ed Gein              Freddy Krueger Slavery              Human Trafficking  the Drug Trade  Drug Addiction Rwandan Genocide Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge Aurora shooting Sandy Hook       Lizzie Borden  Saddam Hussein  Heaven’s Gate Cult Baba Yaga the Holocaust   Balkan Genocide  the list goes on… Write an 8 to 9 page research paper in which you are the expert on this monster/monstrosity. Both your paper and your expert presentation will reflect the biography/origin; timeline of actions/atrocities; cultural/societal impact; how this subject is depicted/sensationalized through various writings/the media (stories, biographies, scholarly articles, comics, graphic novels, poems, movies, interviews, folklore/fairy tails, television shows, et cetera); and why this monster/monstrosity has meaning to you. The paper must also include 7-8 annotated bibliography entries (I have attatched a document to show what it is).  Jamal Sampson's paper has to focus on the two monsters listed: Saddam Hussein Osama Bin Laden .

1. Project 2: Research Paper Compendium
Choose what you consider to be a monster or monstrosity –
literal
figurative (ideology, practice)
historical
cryptozoology
Examples:
mythology
invention
Vlad Tepes
Joseph Stalin
Pablo Escobar
Nazis
Biological Weapons
Assault Rifles
Adolf Hitler

2. the Ku Klux Klan
Dylan Roof
Griselda Blanco
Aileen Wuornos
Fred & Rosemary West
Mark Twitchell
Jeffrey Dahmer
Long Island Serial Killer
Jack the Ripper
Jim Jones/Jonestown
Bigfoot
Loch Ness Monster
the Hydra
Slender Man
Michael Myers
Ed Gein
Freddy Krueger

3. Slavery
Human Trafficking
the Drug Trade
Drug Addiction
Rwandan Genocide
Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge
Aurora shooting
Sandy Hook
Lizzie Borden
Saddam Hussein
Heaven’s Gate Cult
Baba Yaga
the Holocaust
Balkan Genocide
the list goes on…
Write an 8 to 9 page research paper in which you are the expert
on this monster/monstrosity. Both your paper and your expert
presentation will reflect the biography/origin; timeline of
actions/atrocities; cultural/societal impact; how this subject is

4. depicted/sensationalized through various writings/the media
(stories, biographies, scholarly articles, comics, graphic novels,
poems, movies, interviews, folklore/fairy tails, television
shows, et cetera); and why this monster/monstrosity has
meaning to you. The paper must also include
7-8 annotated bibliography entries (I have attatched a document
to show what it is).
Jamal Sampson's paper has to focus on the two monsters listed:
Saddam Hussein
Osama Bin Laden