Brianna Romero

Megan Malcom-Morgan
English 220-003
12-5-2015
Annotated Bibliography
Biography.com. "Jeffrey Dahmer." n.d. biography.com. Biography.com Feature Story. 25 May
2013.
Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on may 21, 1960. Dahmer killed his
first victim just after he graduated high school. He picked up a hitchhiker named Steven
Hicks, took him home to his parents house, got him drunk, and hit him in the head with a
barbell. He dismembered the body parts of his victim and later buried him in his
backyard. Dahmer continued on his killing spree for more than 13 years. He would meet
his victims (mostly in gay bars), take them home, get them drunk/high on drugs, and
eventually he would kill them. As Dahmer was careful to select victims that were social
outcasts, many of his victims being criminals and on the lower end of the social ladder.
He was later killed with another inmate, a white supremacist by the name of Jesse
Anderson, by a black man with schizophrenia by the name of Christopher Scarver. In his
testimony, Scarver states that the prison guards allowed the murders to happen.

Clark, Josh. "How Cannibalism Works." HowStuffWorks. N.p., 24 Aug. 2008. Web. 21 Nov.
2015.
Cannibalism is a choice between life or death in many countries around the world.
Cannibalism is as old as this civilization and likely older. There are many cases of
cannibalism that are between life or death. Not all cases of cannibalism are pointless and

evil. Cannibalism was also very popular in Mesoamerica. Particularly in the Aztec
civilization. As many as a quarter of a million people (about 1% of the population) were
sacrificed each year.

Eveleth, Rose. "Cannibals of the Past Had Plenty of Reasons to Eat People." Smithsonian.
Smithsonian.com, 14 Mar. 2013. Web. 21 Nov. 2015.
Alfred Packer, a hiking guide in Colorado, eats his companions and then goes as far as
blaming them for eating each other. They were later found together in a bundle, bound by
their feet. Boone Helm, another man who is said to have eaten two companions during
two separate storms, showed absolutely no mercy towards his victims and acted as a
hyena. Another instance from Eveleths Smithsonian.com article, talks about cannibalism
in life Rose Eveleth discusses how in the 18th and 19th century, sailors and fisherman
would practice cannibalism if need be. They had even gone as far as to work out
guidelines, called the custom of the sea (rules for cannibalism). The custom of the sea
was an agreement that listed in case of a major emergency, who would be killed and eaten
first.

Nicholls, Mark. "History.org: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Official History and
Citizenship Website." Things Which Seame Incredible: Cannibalism in Early
Jamestown : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History & Citizenship Site. "Colonial
WIlliamsburg" Journal, Winter 2007. Web. 21 Nov. 2015.
Cannibalism was practiced in some very contemporary Native American societies.
Particularly among the tribes of the North and West, cannibalism was recorded and
thought of as torture. Cannibalism served as a type of victory celebration when it came to

winning wars and having the upper hand. However, these tribes used cannibalism with
strict and complex taboos. The process of cannibalism in this culture was never strictly
gastronomic. However popular in the Native American culture, cannibalism also became
popular in the English culture.When disease swept through Jamestown at the beginning
of its colonization, the inhabitants were forced to eat pets, snakes, rats, and many other
animals due to starvation. Some people were forced to dig up the graves of the deceased
and eat the remaining flesh off their bones.

Reporter, Daily Mail. "Meet Our Oldest Human Ancestor ... the Cannibal: How Earliest Species
Was Toothy Little Devil." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 28 May 2010. Web. 21
Nov. 2015.
Cannibalism has been a major part of the human species and history dating all the way
back to a 2 million to 800,000 year old species called Homo Gautengensis. Fossil
records found of our earliest descendents have traces of de fleshed either for ritualistic
burial or human consumption. Along with burned bones, cannibalism was definitely
practiced throughout the history of our species.

Staples, Tim. "Are Catholics Cannibals?" Are Catholics Cannibals? Catholic Answers, 7 Nov.
2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.
Rituals for the catholic faith call for the consumption of the body (bread) and blood
(wine) of Christ. While this is not ideal in other religions, the Catholic religion believes
that when the bread and wine are blessed, it is turned to the body and blood of Christ in
all forms. Some members of the Catholic religion argue that this is a distinction between

forms. Since Christ is received in the form of bread and wine, it can not be considered as
cannibalism.

The Holy Bible, King James Version. Cambridge Edition: 1769; King James Bible Online, 2015.
www.kingjamesbibleonline.org.
Quote from Exodus 12:7-13 that explains the story of the Passover, in which the blood of
a lamb was spread over the front of the homes with newborn baby boys. In order for the
boys to live, this had to be done or else they would have been murdered. Animal
sacrificing is demonstrated in the sense that to preserve life, one must take another and
use a part or parts of the body as a weapon against evil.