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Tattoos: The History And The Present Tattoos are nothing new in America. Tattoos are everywhere from average teens and adults to famous celebrities. Simon Doonan, an author for slate.com, says, “According to the FDA, more than 45 million Americans are now tatted up.” That means roughly about twenty percent of Americans have at least one tattoo and the numbers just keep going up. Tattoos date back to fifteen thousand years ago, and they were not always used as art. They have been used in many…

Courtney McTaggart Annotated Bibliography COMM 455 Carmen, Rachael, Guitar, Amanda, and Dillon, Haley. (2012). Ultimate Answers to Proximate Questions: The Evolutionary Motivations behind Tattoos, and Body Piercings in Popular Culture. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232565700_Ultimate_Answers_to_Proximate_Questions_The_Evolutionary_Motivations_Behind_Tattoos_and_Body_Piercings_in_Popular_Culture This article is about piercings in popular culture. It states that this…

from the beginning of human art history to now days perhaps to our future as well as we cannot deny its contribution as an aesthetic element to our daily life. We can find ornament through arts of primitive culture that shows how indigenous people tattoo on their skin, homes, caves stone etc. We will deal with the ornament, as a evident from the title itself. The importace of using the ornament in the artistic creation is evident especially in the era of Art Nouveau, questioning about feminity…

Having a beautiful tattoo can be great however you can easily get bored with the same tattoo for the rest of your life. Tattoo can be a seasonal thing, what happens when you get uncomfortable with the tattoo and you no longer want it on you body? It’s simple really, using a laser less tattoo removal. This was created by Dorian Davis, he has really been on the fore front in advocating for the laser less tattoo removal. As a tattoo artist he often wonders why a person would spend more for the…

Tattooing is a unique way of art. Tattoo artist does not require any form of education. “Completion of training program or apprenticeship to earn licensure. Tattoo artists typically exhibit a love of tattooing. There is no national protocol that must be followed in order to become a professional tattoo artist. Using needles and pigments, a tattoo artist applies a permanent design directly to a client’s body. Clients may come to a tattoo artist with a picture or design in mind for the artist…

What is a tattoo? A tattoo is a form of body modification, where a design is made by inserting ink, dyes and pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Polynesian word tatau, meaning "to write". Another meaning is from Tahitian word tatau which means ‘to mark something’. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. What…

Tattoos are a huge problem in the world today. Everyone I know has tattoos. In the world today, specifically the job world, we do not accept tattoos. Tattoos do not and cannot get you a job because they look “unprofessional” to people. I have two tattoos of my own. These are ways to express yourself, are a form of art, and are used as camouflage. Tattoos are ways to express yourself and who you are. Many people have them. When it comes to getting a job it is hard because people have tattoos…

can be traced back to the pre-European era in the South Pacific, as was recorded in Captain Cook’s journals of his encounters with Polynesian natives during the eighteenth century. This is echoed by Juliet Fleming (2000, p. 67) who wrote, “the word ‘tattoo’ made its first English appearance in James Cook’s account of his voyage to the Polynesian basin, published in London in 1769.” Similarly, Margo DeMello stated, “it was through the early explorations of the Pacific that tattooing entered into…

In our society tattoos are based on ideologies that come in part from cultural and social issues. In many cases tattoos represent people’s identity and lifestyle. People from a very young age choose to be tattooed most of the time because they think it is something from their life that needs to be printed in their bodies forever. Other reasons may be because of social matters or merely rebellion against their parents or society. Youth experiences and struggles when getting a job. Many big…

Even though tattoos have a long history in many countries and races of people, they have not always been accepted in America. Most people associated early tattoos with freak shows, sailors, prisoners, biker gangs or outsiders that didn’t care about fitting in with mainstream society. Today, it’s common to see people of all races, gender and ages wearing one or more tattoos. There are many types and each type represents something unique about the individual or why they chose it. Tattoos are a…