behind a tattoo. Tattooing has existed all around the world for thousands of years‚ even being mentioned in The Bible. It gained popularity in America in the middle 1800’s‚ but in the last 10-20 years has really crossed over in the mainstream culture and gained a lot of attention in the media. There are many things that go into tattoos and tattooing‚ I will be focusing on; the history of tattooing in America‚ the tattooing process‚ and reasons people decide to get tattooed. The first tattoo shop in
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The number of people getting tattoos seems to be on the rise. According to the most recent Harris Poll‚ conducted in the summer of 2007‚ approximately 40% of Americans ages 25-40 have at least one tattoo‚ as compared to 3% 20 years ago (Hawkes‚ Senn‚ &ump; Thorn‚ 2004). The increased popularity of the tattoo is apparent if you compare those findings to the 1936 Life magazine estimate that 10 million Americans‚ or approximately 6% of the population‚ had a tattoo (Swan‚ 2011). According to Kang and
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decision about your own possible tattoos. Preview: In order to increase your knowledge of tattoos‚ so you or someone you know will be less likely to regret their possible tattoos I’m going to focus on the following areas: The reason for getting a tattoo‚ the risks and the myths about tattoos‚ and tattoo removal. The history behind tattoos is just as fascinating as the tattoo itself. Whether flaunted or hidden‚ sought as art or bought on a whim‚ the tattoo varies from culture to culture‚
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regrets getting that tattoo. She daydreamed many days how her life could have been better. Can you really blame Grandma? She did this when she was a teenager. The trend in this century has increased. Tattoos are a major fashion statement among teenagers today‚ but the majority of the young adults fail to consider the medical‚ social‚ and professional consequences tattoos can inflict on one’s life which may result in regret. Adolescents have several reasons for having tattoos are numerous but some
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The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in spectacular forms of body modification‚ including the tattoo renaissance and the phenomena of body piercing‚ the emergence of neo-tribal practices like scarification and the invention of new‚ high-tech forms of body art like sub-dermal implants. Therefore‚ body modification practices have proven to be an interesting field of study for sociologists interested in deviance‚ social control‚ and the social construction of problematic behaviour. Much of the
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paper‚ I will analyze facial scarification in the Yoruba tribe and facial tattooing in the Maori tribe. The West Africa Yoruba tribe wears scar stripes on their faces. "Yoruba facial stripes are only produced by scarification and not by paint or tattoos" Orie (2011‚ para. 2). Anthropologists have noted that scarification is the predominate type of body marking among African tribes. African cultures use scarification markings as identifiers amongst tribes as a source of separation from outsiders.
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Helen Day is a part-time journalist and blogger. She maintains her blog entitled Street beat on a variety of current social issues. This blog entry‚ The Power of Ink‚ is about tattoos and it has drawn a variety of responses from readers of her blog. In recent years‚ the practice of ‘inking’ your body‚ or having tattoos indelibly imprinted on your skin has become almost ‘de rigueur’ for many in our society‚ especially the young. There is a wide variety of views about this practice and Helen Day
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want to‚ whether it be dancing‚ drawing‚ singing‚ or even body art!! Tattoos are not just for looks‚ it’s a way to tell a story. A lot of people that have gone in the war or service‚ they come out wanting to get a tattoo about what division they were in. Do we judge them or criticize them on that? No‚ we honor them! So before you start assuming that people with tattoos are bad‚ just ask questions for the meaning behind the tattoo. You will be surprised of what most people will have to say. Many
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getting a tattoo is becoming normality among Americans of all ages and backgrounds. However‚ several people get tattooed without thinking about the dangerous consequences that may follow. The skin procedure required for the removal of a tattoo can be expensive and painful. Furthermore‚ I will discuss that the perceptions of tattoos are changing from negative to positive because we know much more about tattoos than we did in the past decades‚ but that we still have so much to learn about tattoos. If
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Tatau COM/150 March 7‚ 2010 Tatau Tattoos have been used for thousands of years through many different forms as a way of representation. Throughout time‚ the choice to decorate ourselves with colorful and decorative markings of ink has grown in popularity through elaborate portraits of body art‚ along with permanent cosmetic make-up. The uses of tattoos have been traced as far back as 2000 b.c. in Egypt‚ which was found to be present in many Egyptian mummies. Other evidence would
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