Outline on Tattoos
Tattoos
Specific Purpose: I want the audience to learn all about Tattoos.
Thesis Statement: Where tattoos originated from, complications from tattoos and why they are so popular today.
Introduction
Tattoos are everywhere today, from teenagers to military men to gangsters to tribe men. They have different meanings to everyone and not everyone likes them and some people are even completely against them. Who in this audience has a tattoo or even more than one tattoo? Because they say, once you get one, you have to get another! So let’s learn a little about tattoos.
Body
I. The name Tattoo, originated from the word tatau, which means to tap the mark into the body.
A. The earliest sign of a tattoo was found in 1991 and believed to 5,200 years old, approximately from 3150 B.C. 1. This was on a mummy named the Iceman 2. He had over 50 tattoos which believed to be for therapeutic reasons B. Ancient Egyptians women from 4000-3500 B.C. also had evidence of tattoos
1. Since the tattoos were found on the Egyptian women, most assumed that they were a mark of prostitutes or sexually transmitted diseases.
2. Others believed that the tattooing was a therapeutic role and functioned as a permanent form of amulet during the very difficult time of pregnancy and birth because of where the markings were on the womens’ bodies.
a. The markings were around the abdomen, on top of the thighs, and the breasts.
C. The Greeks and Romans seemed to have used tattoos as a means to mark someone as “belonging” to an owner in the case of slaves or even as a punitive measure to mark them as criminals.
1. This was also adopted by Roman soldiers and spread across the Roman Empire until the emergence of Christianity, when tattoos were felt to “disfigure that made in God’s image” and were banned D. Native Americans were found in 1475 A.D. with extensive facial and body tattooing
II. Tattoos in today’s world A. Tattoo connoisseurs take spotlights at international fairs and
Specific Purpose: I want the audience to learn all about Tattoos.
Thesis Statement: Where tattoos originated from, complications from tattoos and why they are so popular today.
Introduction
Tattoos are everywhere today, from teenagers to military men to gangsters to tribe men. They have different meanings to everyone and not everyone likes them and some people are even completely against them. Who in this audience has a tattoo or even more than one tattoo? Because they say, once you get one, you have to get another! So let’s learn a little about tattoos.
Body
I. The name Tattoo, originated from the word tatau, which means to tap the mark into the body.
A. The earliest sign of a tattoo was found in 1991 and believed to 5,200 years old, approximately from 3150 B.C. 1. This was on a mummy named the Iceman 2. He had over 50 tattoos which believed to be for therapeutic reasons B. Ancient Egyptians women from 4000-3500 B.C. also had evidence of tattoos
1. Since the tattoos were found on the Egyptian women, most assumed that they were a mark of prostitutes or sexually transmitted diseases.
2. Others believed that the tattooing was a therapeutic role and functioned as a permanent form of amulet during the very difficult time of pregnancy and birth because of where the markings were on the womens’ bodies.
a. The markings were around the abdomen, on top of the thighs, and the breasts.
C. The Greeks and Romans seemed to have used tattoos as a means to mark someone as “belonging” to an owner in the case of slaves or even as a punitive measure to mark them as criminals.
1. This was also adopted by Roman soldiers and spread across the Roman Empire until the emergence of Christianity, when tattoos were felt to “disfigure that made in God’s image” and were banned D. Native Americans were found in 1475 A.D. with extensive facial and body tattooing
II. Tattoos in today’s world A. Tattoo connoisseurs take spotlights at international fairs and
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