English 112 involved writing a large variety of literary pieces focusing on multiple components of writing. I wrote a multigenre on tattoos, literary analysis on Hamlet, and an argumentative essay as well as a summary and response essay on the need for higher education. From this wide array of papers I have learned and grown in my technical writing skills that will contribute in my pursuits of college level classes. I will address each of my papers and what I have learned from them. I have included
at someone’s face is enough to identify the town, regional affiliation, or family of that person (Orie, 2011). In the Maori culture of New Zealand, tattoos are distinct and unique, not only in their design, but also their significance. Palmer and Tano explain in their article that there are two methods that are involved when creating a moko tattoo. There is the method of carving
Traditional Hawaiian Culture I would consider this to be a formal essay but instead I would rather take this as a nonchalant one, because unlike most people I hate long winded crap but this is a must do for school so bear with me for a good bit and we can get it over with and maybe you’ll learn something but if you're like why am I having to listen to this guy about his culture well your wrong right of the bat cause this is not only my culture it may be your too and you just don’t know it but I
anti-discrimination laws pertain to those with body modifications? If an employer does not have the right to deny employment to someone due to their race, religion, and gender, then why should it be OK to turn someone away just because of a small tattoo. The knowledge and potential of the employee do not cease to exist due to their self-expression through their body art. A lot of potentially good employees have been turned away because of body modifications: big or small. Unemployment rates are
Being characterized by ¨distracting¨ or used as medical purposes, would you have “tattoos¨? Tattooing began all the way back in Ancient Egypt: found in mummified preserved skin, art, and the findings of tattooing tools. Tattooing is a very critical and difficult task because of the types of different ink, different needles, very technical machines and the time it takes to even become a well known tattoo artist. Every ink has components which include: the pigment and the carrier. A carrier is to work
traditional culture in Tahiti is tattooing. The Tahitians used the tattooing in a very meaningful way. And have a long and interesting meaning. There are three types of tattoos those intended for gods, priests ari’l which means hereditary so they are reserved for their descendants. The people that are from the hui ari’l type their tattoos are reserved for chiefs. and traditional dancing.
typically conceal tattoos or piercings. Though, why is this? Why most people hide their tattoos and piercings and change their image in hopes for a job? Discrimination in the workplace can effect anyone. Depending on the interviewer, it can potentially ruin the job offer at hand. In reality as soon as the interviewee walks into the interview, the interviewer is judging them. Questions will be asked for protocol, but the decision is already made after viewing the interviewee’s sleeve of tattoos. Theories
getting tattoos, more employers are faced with the decision on whether or not they will accept applicants with visible body art. Despite an obvious progression of the acceptance of tattoos within general society because of the younger adult generation, does this kind of body modification still significantly inhibit the probability of succeeding in the professional world? During the last couple of years, “30% of adults ages 18-29 and 32% of adults ages 30-45 reported having at least one tattoo.” (Whorton
have extensive tattooing done to have a rite of passage into ritual empowerment. Some Oceanic tribes would tattoo the whole body, such as the Marquesas, while others would only tattoo the buttocks and thighs. In Figure 11.24, Tomika Te Mutu of Coromandel, shows the nineteenth century Maori Chief covered in facial tattoos. The Maori’s would use a chisel to create such tattoos. Facial tattoos
acceptance of the tattoo began, but not without a wide belief in the stigma that a tattooed person was lower in status and in cultural advancement than that of the modern world (p 45-8). In America, tattoos soon began to be . modernized. and changed into more acceptable forms of body art (p.49). Around the beginning of the 20th Century, many everyday people were getting tattooed, but still the largest crowd getting these designs was servicemen (p. 51). A new fetish concerning the tattoo art was the emergence