Argumentative Essay About Tattoos

Tattoos have played a role in human societies since their inception, as pieces of cultures and rituals across the world. To many, having a tattoo is an outward way of expression. However, the prejudice have not disappeared and are still greatly diminishing. In the article Inked Well, David Kirby examines the aspects of tattoo’s history, as well as tattoo’s iconic popularity among today 's middle class. Kirby’s stereotypical views on the tattooed “victims” quickly change as he goes on to interview some local tattooes of Tallahassee, Florida.

Here’s my interpretation of Ligua’s current situation, She is the head of her households, a student who needs to work hard to pay for her tuition and feed her kids. She lives in an environment of small-minded people; her neighbors are her social barriers. Social barrier refers to those factors that are external to her and impede her focus on improving her life or become successful. Her neighbors are caught up in their own thinking that they cannot see the value of exploring other ways of life. Clearly, the community where she lives has adapted a prejudice lifestyle, the people she associates with are afraid of change. The culture she’s at evolves with Ethnocentrism - It means not realizing the challenge when it influences

Women of rank or wealth may have their legs tattooed as well. Girls had their right hand tattooed by the age of twelve. Only after that were they allowed to prepare the meals and to participate in the rubbing of dead bodies with coconut oil. The most popular and appreciated designs are the tiki, the turtle, the gecko, the ray, the shark, the dolphin, as well as many abstracts symbolic designs. Men without any tattoos were despised, whereas those whose bodies were completely tattooed – the to’oata – were greatly admired. Therefore chiefs and warriors generally had the most elaborate

Mental stability is an important part of living a normal life, but identifying mental illnesses can be a difficult task. One way to identify these illnesses is the Rorschach test, a series of ink blots that supposedly detects these illnesses. However, there is controversy around validity of the Rorschach. In “What’s in an Ink Blot? Some Say Not Much” by Erica Goode, Goode writes about this controversy, where it stemmed from, and where the scientific community stands on it. The Rorschach test should not be used to diagnose mental illness because the test subject has the ability to alter the results, it takes a lot of time to interpret and learn how to interpret, and there are many doctors that are not

Illegally, teenagers between the ages of 13-16 are returning home from a holiday or shopping spree with an unnecessary tattoo, simply because less experienced shops or holiday resorts don’t request proof

This is a quote that i found and i totally agree with it. “Tattoos are like stories-they 're symbolic of the important moments in your

A topic that the Marine Corps has been debating for the past decade is whether or not there should be a policy regarding tattoos. It has been a constant struggle to balance the personal desires of the individual Marine and maintain the appearance of professionalism that is expected of the Marine Corps. A tattoo policy definitely needs to be in place in order to maintain a positive perception, sustain good order and discipline, and provide a standard of uniformity.

There has been a long going battle between whether body and facial piercings are a good choice. Many employers prefer their workers to be metal free, and many parents prefer the same for their children, but is it actually all that bad? To better understand piercing culture, also known as Body Modification or The Body Mod community, let’s go back to where it all began.

“Tattooing is the practice of making permanent designs on the body. It is done by pricking small holes in the skin with a sharpened stick, bone, or needle that has been dipped in pigments with natural colours.” ( The World Book Encyclopedia, 2004).

Josie Appleton’s piece opens with her introducing the fact that body modification has lost its mark of being taboo. Appleton then transitions into describing the different kinds of people that modify their bodies and why they do it. The fact that people used to mostly use tattoos to identify with a group and are now using them to define themselves is heavily enforced. The rest of the piece describes in great detail the different ways people use piercings and tattoos to better understand themselves and mark important milestones. The piece concludes with Appleton claiming that body modification should only be for fashion, because bringing significance to it causes problems.

Tattooing has been around for nearly as long as humans have been. For example, the oldest revelation of tattooed human skin was found approximately 6000 BC on the upper lip of a Chinchorro culture mummy from South America. The oldest direct evidence for tattooing in Europe is the body of Ötzi the Iceman, which dates back to the late fourth millennium BC. The argument makes a claim of value, because she firmly states her opinions in defense of body art. The essay was written on the 6th of April in 2010. It is important to note the time frame, because throughout time tattoos have greatly been embraced by millennials. According to surveys, more than one-third of Americans under age 30 have tattoos (Rottenberg 36).

WOOSTER — What once was a mark associated with sailors and hoodlums is now becoming more commonplace, as tattoos, as well as facial hair, have made their way into the accepted uniform of many law enforcement agencies.

Dubois also proposes a solutions to the Black community. For Du Bois, education is very important for black folk. In the society where  racism exist, education is the path to freedom. Educated folks will know how to lead the community to gain rights. Dubois come to this solutions with the approach of pragmatism.  Pragmatism is the philosophical doctrine that rejects the quest for fundamental foundational truths and abstract philosophical systems. Pragmatists argue that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge, meaning and value. Dubois using pragmatism to  approach to the problem of race. He suggests that by using pragmatist principles, we can arrive at the truth regarding race relations by seeing the injustice of racism and promoting social change. In his address during the Niagara Movement, Dubois emphasize that    “ And when we call for education, we mean real education. We believe in work. We ourselves are workers, but work is not necessarily education. Education is the development of power and ideal.We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be, and we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girl simply as servants and underlings, or simply for the use of other people. They have a right to know, to think, to aspire.”

Adam’s work is inherently comparable to Tabassum’s observation on the stigma among tattooed person in their career. The results propose stigmas associated with tattoos remain embedded in the context of culture, especially within career. By interviewing diverse range of occupations including student, small business owner, and employment in the fields of business, pharmacy, and information technology, the observation verified that social stigmas related to the tattooed individuals were conscious by the participants (Tabassum, 2013). Those results were also inherent with some previous findings (Martin & Dula, 2010; Roberts, 2012; Wohlrab et al., 2009) that witnessed stigmatized definitions of people with tattoos in modern American culture, such

Tattoos played a major role in gender discrimination as well and incited cultural discourse and anxiety in society. In the Modern Era, in the USA, especially after World War II when women became involved in the home-front jobs, they started to break away from the traditional stereotypical woman image by getting tattoos; this created much anxiety in society, because it was bringing into question the separation between a burly, working man’s and a delicate, housekeeping woman’s disposition. After the sexual revolution in the 60s, “tattoos were… resurrected in the counterculture by women who were rethinking womanhood” (Mifflin 55). The Modern Era was the era of skepticism about occupations and responsibilities, like who should be the breadwinner