Tattoo Informative Speech

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Tattoos... Always are going to be a thing to talk about. Some people hate them and the other one can become addicted to them. The art of tattooing began so long ago, hundreds of years, the Egyptian age. Discovered found some momies with drawing and words in their skin. However if we keep searching in the history of the world we can notice that in almost every century and country there were a different fashion of tattoos. For example in XIX you could go to the circus and found women covered in ink, in the 20's all the soldiers and marines got tattoos to remember their families and lovers, in almost all of the tribes of the amazon, Asia and what's more the most known, the soldiers of the Polynesia, who got tattoos even in their faces. We can

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