...Tattoos Past and Present Debra Eng/101 9/15/11 Kimberly Stanley Tattoos Past and Present Some people may have tattoos and others may find them ugly or despise them but one thing is true, tattoos are a part of the past and understanding where they came from can give us a greater appreciation for them today. The Egyptians, the Japanese, the Chinese, and more all have elaborate art histories whether it is buried in the pyramids, the temples, the sculptures, or caves but how has our history books in school forgotten to mention the important history hidden in tattoos? Tattoos have many meanings, and they are different all over the world and there past leads directly to the present and if history repeats itself it may even tell us something about our future. In this essay creating a timeline to conclusively draw a line through history too today and understand the many traditions our culture still possesses. Tattoos are a common part of our life because of recent discoveries we can give tattoos a past that leads to the present. Iceman 3200 B.C. Tattoos are part of our life but we forget that they are not new, in fact tattoos have been around longer than we can significantly date. According to Lineberry, (n.d) the ”oldest man to this date found is believed to have lived 5,200 years ago and possessed about 57 tattoos all over his body in dot like formations, scientists believe because of the placement of the tattoos...
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...Tattoos: What is considering acceptable and what is consider extreme? Viola Whatley Effective Essay Writing/ Com150 May 30, 2010 Alina Vanciu Tattoos: What is considering acceptable and what is consider extreme? Have you ever wonder what is considering acceptable and what extreme are there when it comes to tattoos. People have seen how far tattoos involve over the past 15 years. One of the biggest problems with tattoos is in the work place. Does employee have the right to bear (arms) tattoos? Now people are creating an issue by judging other people appearance with tattoos. What do you think? Even though people have the rights to bear tattoos, they are creating a workplace issues. Tattoos are getting more and more common in work place. What is employer to do? For some employer, they have a dress code that employee have to go by. For others it depends on the employer industry and type of jobs that people have to do. For example, Walt Disney doesn’t allow it employees to use bandages to cover their tattoos, but they can use opaque makeup....
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...Life-changing Event Essay Tattoo Blues My mom always hated the thought, so she would end the conversation before it started. As soon as eighteen rolled around though, the appointment was made. It was something that was always on my list of things to do. I went out and got a tattoo on my eighteenth birthday, my excitement was shared with everyone, but it lead to anxiety, bullying from classmates and disappointment in myself. The one thing that was etched on my skin forever was constantly on my mind. Troubles arose when choosing what design to go with. I had thoughts of a bird and flower for the longest time, but the idea changed right before the appointment. A simple flower and leaf design is...
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...Jessica Carr January 24, 2015 Enc 1102-325 The Big Tattoo Boom You see them everywhere you go. They are on the waitress who are serving you dinner, the veteran waiting for medical care, and even on the football players we watch on television. According to Dictionary.com, a tattoo is done by marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, and legends by making punctures in it and inserting pigments. Tattoos which date back to hundreds, even thousands of years ago have slowly grown into a booming business. Many things about the tattoo world have changed over time, from the tools and ink used, to designs, and even meanings behind the tattoos. I plan to explain how big of a business tattooing has come to be. There was a time when getting a tattoo wasn’t an expression or even a choice. According to the Lineberry’s article from the Smithsonian “In terms of tattoos on actual bodies, the earliest known examples were Egyptian and were present on several female mummies dating back to 2000 B.C.” Meanings of tattoos during the ancient years ranged from religious, to cultural, and even to represent skill or ownership. In the beginning tattoos weren’t given using the usual tattoo gun and ink like you would find today. Tattoos have changed a ton since first surfacing in ancient times. I’m sure the Egyptians never imagined tattooing would turn into a thriving business or a way for people to express themselves. In 1891, Samuel...
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...Deviance is shaped by one’s culture and is relative in space and time. When you violate society’s normal set of standards and arouse negative reactions, it is perceived as deviant. Because the perception changes over time, deviant behavior hundreds of years ago is completely different then deviant behavior today. “In the late 1800s, many Americans used cocaine, marijuana, and opium, because they were common components of over-the-counter products for symptoms like depression, insomnia, menstrual cramps, migraines, and toothaches. Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine and, perhaps not surprisingly, became an instant hit when it went on sale in 1894” (Goode, 2008). Today, the use of drugs is deviant and illegal. Deviance is a very subjective field of study and can be considered very controversial. There are nine theoretical perspectives of deviance that is viewed from different historical standpoints. The first is a demonic perspective where the roots are from metaphysical causes. This perspective explains how evil forces influence us toward temptation and possession causing deviant behavior. The classical theory of deviance deals with deviance as a freely calculated choice to increase or decrease pain. Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham were enlightened reformers arguing that social control is based on rational human reasoning. Both views have been seen mostly outdated, being replaced with the concern of the causation of deviance. The third perspective is the pathological...
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...Judge a Book by its Cover: For many years the public would say that when asked to visualize a person with tattoos their first thoughts would be of criminals, sailors, bikers, or gangsters. Not anymore! Tattoos have become culturally acceptable in today’s society. They have a rich history that dates back to 2000 B.C. before any kind of negative stigma was formed. Because of that stigma, however, tattoos and people with tattoos have developed a bad reputation. Many concerns such as the procedure, health risks and career complications are what have caused some of the negativity towards tattoos. In today’s society these are no longer the case and thus, the art has become mainstream. The act of tattooing started in early civilizations and was most evident in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians’ wall writing showed evidence of the body being used as a canvas around 2000 B.C. (“All About the”). Throughout many different cultures tattoos are used as a part of their religious practices. A tattoo can represent ones authority or a particular responsibility within the practice. However, during biblical times, tattoos were considered an act of mythological worship. Some experts believe that Moses viewed tattoos a little differently, viewing them as a way to commemorate devotion rather than paganism worship. Years later, during the Roman Empire, slaves and criminals began to bare tattoos causing them to develop a negative connotation. They were also used negatively to brand Jews during the Holocaust...
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...manuscripts and from their manuscripts books were made. Throughout history, ink has been used for many different things. For instance our founding fathers signed the Constitution with ink. Ink symbolizes stability in society; contrary to pencils the ink in a pen is permanent. Ink has been most beneficial to society because it’s the power of the pen that makes society function. For example, ink is used by our government (President, Congressmen) to put laws into effect and also to change laws. Ink is also used to print our daily newspapers, magazines, posters, books etc. Ink has also been beneficial in society within our workplace. For example, before beginning employment in most of our workplace, we are required to have a background check in which sometimes require fingerprinting. Ink is also necessary for fingerprinting. Ink is also essential in the work place for official settings to verify someone’s identity or an official document which requires a wet signature. Another...
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...highlight class, ethnic, religious, gender age minority subgroups inside a nation. A subculture fairly in vogue today is Tattooing. Both picked up fame in the 1990s. Be that as it may, nor is anything new. They both have been around the since antiquated circumstances. Inking is at some point called body modification. This is on account of the body is being altered or changed somehow. In any case, while structures and examples travel each which way, body alteration persist until the end of time. This subculture of the tattoo existed in every civilization, on every continent until the dawn of time. Subcultures are gatherings of individuals that are somehow spoken to as non-standardizing and\or minimal through their specific...
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...significant situations that have created the person I am today. The first mask was insecurity formed in grade school where it all began. By the 6th grade, I had already attended seven different schools. No one ever seemed to like the new kid, it was very hard to fit in, and the teasing seemed never to stop. To complicate insecurity matter even further was the diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the need to take medicine. The teasing causing the insecurity could not stay in fear the teasing would never stop. I developed persona’s...
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...for many centuries and over time it has developed into a way to express oneself. From tattoos to piercings, to even more extreme fashion like cosmetic surgery, body art sure has became a creative way for people to make a new identity for themselves. In my opinion, body art should not be practiced unless their culture or beliefs are the ideal reason or if they take a course in body modification just so they acknowledge the risk and complications that come with procedures so drastic and that are unnecessary if it is just for pleasure. Before you make that appointment to get your tattoo that you have been wanting so bad for the longest time, just think about the placement first of all. Where would you be receiving this...
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... Intro to Corrections Before I watch the films in class I thought I had a pretty good insight on how prison worked and how corrections were used in the prison system. As I watched the films it gave me the visual part of the learning experience. It gave me the inside view of the system and how it works, but not only that it also showed me more on drugs in prions, fights, gangs, and the struggle to keep control of the prison. Not only had that it gone along with the book and everything we are learning in class. Now the film showed a lot of gang violence in prions. I saw how classification works better. In book it talks about how they can look at some tattoos and can tell if they are in a gang or not, now the officers in the films would use tattoos and markings to mark them violent activities. But certain tattoos will put a guy in a certain gang. This would help them classify them. This helped them be aware of certain gangs and different ways to handle them, and who to watch for and who to be more cautious with. The officers would find out new inmates and there gang history just by their tattoos. The max security prison system works a little differently with the gang situation. In the max security prison it is more about color of skin that whites stick with whites, blacks with blacks and etc. Overcrowding is no joke in prison. Now in class we learned about this and how prisons had to put multiple inmates in one room. In the video in showed exactly that! Sometimes 150 inmates...
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...place for people with tattoos. Unfortunately today tattoos are still looked down upon. When someone gets a tattoo, they know what the consequence may be for them; and that is not being able to get a certain job. I don’t see not allowing someone to get a job because of his or her tattoo as a form of discrimination. In most cases they are not hiring the person because they believe that with the tattoos the employee is not able to upkeep the image that their employer desires. The classes of discrimination include what people have no control over: race, nationality, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. People with tattoos have voluntarily chosen to get them. In addition, employers have the legal rights to create a work and dress code that can include legal provisions on the visibility of tattoos. It would hurt companies because this may give employees another reason to sue them. A reason certain companies may require body art to be covered is that they are trying to keep a certain corporate image which is important for their presentation of the company. They want their employees to be clean and presentable and fit into the image they are trying to convey. This may be important for jobs in which you are required to work and present products to others; which is a large amount of jobs. Also companies may be against tattoos if they want to keep a traditional, clean image; in which they try to appear to a certain audience. Although tattoos are becoming more normal...
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...February 2013 Military Tattoo Policies Hey! Do you have any tattoos? Does it affect your job in any way? Well I know if you are in the military it can affect you. Military tattoo policies vary in each branch. They choose the policy based on, if the tattoos are a distraction from good military order and discipline, where they are located, how inappropriate they are and how many they have. I agree with these policies yet disagree also. Are your tattoos a distraction from good military order and discipline? In the Army tattoos on the hands and the back of the neck are now permitted as long as the tattoos are not extremist, indecent, sexist or racist. In the Coast Guard if any of your tattoos can be seen while in dress blues they are unauthorized, also in the Coast Guard no visible piercings are allowed. In the Marines they are prohibited from having a full sleeve tattoo, it does not look professional in dress blues. What would you say if you saw a man covered in tattoos protecting the president or anyone of high power? Me, personally, I do not think that tattoos that all over the body is professional, military or not if you are in a work environment tattoos should not be shown. Say you were a lawyer, is the judge or others going to take you very serious if you have tattoos on your hands, neck and face? I know I sure wouldn’t. No tattoos may not mean you are a certain kind of person, but they do not look professional. I do not personally have a tattoo, but my girlfriend has one...
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...member, First of all Apple wants to thank you for your focus, dedication and the great job that you have done so far this year. We recognize your efforts to represent our brand in the best way possible each and every year. As you all know, in September 2012 Apple launched a new mapping system for the new IOS6. We launched this new mapping system knowing it is a major initiative for Apple. Unfortunately, we fell short on our commitment with the launching of our new mapping system, causing many confusion and dissatisfaction between our customers. We are aware of this problem and we are immensely sorry for the stress and frustration this may have caused to your everyday job here at Apple. We are working hard to make the customer experience even better and within days of the IOS6 release we managed to fix items on the mapping with the right name at the right place. We will be seeking outside help from mapping-technology firms and we are urging maps provider Tom Tom to fix some of the mistakes in the current map. Meanwhile this problem is being worked on; it is still possible to try alternatives like downloading Bing, MapQuest, Waze, Google or Nokia maps. It is also important to know that the more customers use the mapping system on the new IOS6, the better it will get. We are addressing this problem actively and we are sure to have this matter established for our customers to have a better experience with our mapping system. We as Apple believe in your...
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...My whole life changed when I moved to Magee to live with my father. Changing schools and getting use to my environment was something that I was not comfortable with. As a result of moving to Magee, I had to change schools and leave the people I grew up with. I, also, had to get accustomed to constantly being around big crowds of people. The most dramatic effect of moving was that, now, I had to grow up and leave my childish ways behind me. Before I moved, I attended Mendenhall school from kindergarten to ninth grade. I was moving to the rival school Magee High and I was nervous. In the past, I had heard rumors about how serious they were and the Mendenhall versus Magee rivalry. The first couple of weeks, I mostly kept to myself and avoid...
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