TITLE: “Don’t just poke around‚ be informed first!” TOPIC: Body piercing. GENERAL PURPOSE: To Inform. SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform the audience about body piercing. CORE STATEMENT: Before considering getting a body piercing one should know the types of piercings‚ reasons why one would want to have it done‚ and be fully aware of the complications that can follow. METHOD OF ORGANIZATION: Topical order. SPEECH TITLE: “Don’t just poke around‚ be informed.” INTRODUCTION:
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Body Piercing and the Risk for Infection Body piercing has been a popular method of self-expression since ancient times. Roman centurions wore nipple rings to show their virility and courage‚ Amazonian warriors put heavy metal rings through their noses to intimidate their enemies‚ and ancient Egyptian royals had naval piercing to prove their high status in society. Today‚ although still associated with tribal people such as the Masai warriors of East Africa‚ body piercing has become a popular fashion
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Some teenagers believe that tattoos and piercings are the best thing ever; however‚ they do not understand the effects they could have on their body. Although tattoos and piercings could take hours to get‚ and some may take no time at all. The risks of tattoos and piercings could affect the rest of their lives. People can get anything from a skin rash to HIV just by getting a tattoo or piercing. Before anyone gets a tattoo or piercing it is best to know the risks of it all. Tattoos are permanent
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Freak! Weirdo! That was what most people covered in tattoos and body piercing were nicknamed in an era gone by. Today‚ this widely common phenomenon is widely spread from young adolescence to the older generations and some still carry those nicknames. Tattooing and body piercing has come along way since the time of un-sterilized and unsanitary practices. Body piercing and tattoos are becoming a favorable form of self expression; one should consider the precautions and safety risks before
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Body piercing‚ a form of body modification‚ is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body‚ creating an opening in which jewellery may be worn. The word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing‚ or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice. While the history of body piercing is obscured by a lack of scholarly reference and popular misinformation‚ ample evidence exists to document that it has been practiced in various forms by both sexes since ancient
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the things our children have to face each day. Another major decision those same kids have to face is whether or not to go along with their friends and get a permanent body decoration by way of tattooing or piercing. Although it is their body‚ teenagers’ should wait until they are adults before making a decision on a permanent body decoration. A tattoo is a picture or word placed into the skin with permanent ink. The needle involved is a flat or round group of points ranging from a one (single
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them before even taking the time to think about why he or she got a body part pierced. Body piercing has become more mainstream in the past ten to fifteen years‚ but can still not get past the stigma attached to getting a body part pierced. But what most people do not realize is that piercing of body parts other than ears date back as far as Biblical times and have symbolic meaning rather than just shock value. The art of body modification has been in practice since as early as the
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Acceptance of Tattoos and Body Piercing in a Modern Age Andrew Sullivan Axia College of University of Phoenix According to the most recent Harris Poll‚ which took place in 2003‚ about 15% of all Americans have at least one tattoo. That translates into about 40 million people. Tattoos are becoming much more popular based on comparing those statistics to the results of a 1936 Life magazine estimates of 10 million Americans had at least one tattoo. As for body piercing‚ no statistics are kept
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Health Risks Associated With Tattoos and Body Piercings The risks of Tattoos and body piercing are real and they simply cannot be wished away or they should not be taken lightly too. One should be aware of all the issues involved and take necessary precautions to avoid complications latter. The health risks associated with tattoos and body piercing are given below. Pain -- Some piercing may not hurt but some others are going to be difficult and one should be prepared for it. Infections -- Infection
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Tattoos and Piercings 1 Tattoos and Piercings When you look at someone and see a tattoo or piercing‚ what do you think? Do you instantly see this person in a negative light or do you simply see it as a way in which the individual is expressing themselves? Tattoos and piercings are a form of nonverbal communication that can communicate many things to us. Nonverbal communication is defined as “all modes of communication except language‚ including nonword vocals‚ gestures‚ use of space‚ time
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