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    Body modification is art because it is showing your personality on the outside. How you’re feeling in the inside you’re showing it on your skin. Teens and young adults want tattoos and piercing. It is considered attractive to some people, most people love body modification. Some people disagree that body modification is art. Many people today love to pierce their body or get tattoos. Most people get a tattoo if it has a deep meaning to them. In some work places you need to cover up tattoos and hide

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    Body modification in American Culture In recent years tattooing and body piercing have become increasingly prevalent in popular culture. These forms of body modification are no longer tools used by criminals and gang member, showing their role in society. These practices are used by many of teenagers and young adults in our society today. In fact many of these practices have been a positive trend in American culture, giving adolescents a way of expressing themselves Studies have revealed a positive

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    Against Body Modifications Still Exist? Does 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:

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    Cover your trash at work Introductory Paragraph If you have a visible tattoo or an unusual piercings, you become a walking stereotype, begging strangers to judge you (Lewis). On the other hand do you think having tattoos or piercings uncovered walking around the workplace, while people are judging you, is that okay for you? Even though Tattoos and Piercings are methods of self-expression and are unique, your creativity on your skin should be covered at all times while you’re

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    they express themselves. A common form of self-expression is by getting a piercing or tattoo, something that can set a person apart from the majority. Body piercings and tattoos on women at one time were unacceptable and distasteful in the United States. However over time women having assorted types of body art has become more acceptable in society. Today young women at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, use piercings and tattoos as a form of self-expression that is vastly encouraged by peers

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    employee has visible tattoos or piercings. Having tattoos back then was less common because of things like this, people didn’t want to have that appearance and worry about being associated with other that are nothing like them. Not many people want to look down on by others because the physical appearance. Except that is exactly what was happening, the higher class of people were looking down on anyone who was different from them.

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    Causes And Effects of External Appearances Tattoos, piercings and hairstyles are a few examples of ways our appearance can be judged. In our modern day society, we are taught or manipulated to believe that various appearances, we see are the way a person acts or does. Dr. Elizabeth Chabner Thompsons “Tattoos and Body Piercings:Self expression or Self mutilation”and Veronica Chambers “Dreadlocks: You see my hair, But do you see me? ”convey this idea.Both these articles thoroughly explain

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    Causes And Effects Of A Person’s Appearance Tattoos, Piercings and Hairstyles are a few examples of ways our appearance can be judged. In our modern day society, we are taught or manipulated to believe that various appearances, we see are the way a person acts or does. Dr. Elizabeth Chabner Thompsons “Tattoos and Body Piercings:Self expression or Self mutilation”and Veronica Chambers “Dreadlocks: You see my hair, But do you see me? ”convey this idea. Most of them time it’s true, but no

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    seen in popular culture. Tattoos, scarification, and body piercing are hot trends in body fashion. Body modification points to a revival to paganism, where Pagan cultures see the body as having the right to be modified. Body trends seen today are similar to these practices, although traditional tribe groups decided on the body modifications that someone in the group received. Nowadays people could change the way they look or appear. Body modifications are positive for people because they are

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    authors of “Inked into Crime? An Examination of the Casual Relationships between Tattoos and Life-Course-Offending among males from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development” (Jennings, Hahn, Farrington 2014) and “Nonmainstream Body Modification: Genital Piercing, Branding, Burning, and Cutting” (Myers 1992). Jennings, Hahn, and Farrington’s article investigates the correlation between tattoos and deviant behavior. In addition, the researches ultimately want to discover if the relationship between

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