Dale Lawrence Elizabeth Hokanson English 1010 1/20/2014 Should tattoos be accepted in the workplace? People say perception is everything. Potential employers judge people based on physical appearance‚ as do peers‚ potential mates‚ and clients. Tattoos are a big issue concerning how people judge appearance. While they can be offensive to coworkers and customers‚ tattoos should not be judged in the workplace because they are a way of expressing yourself‚ or your culture. “The tattooing craze
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A tattoo: a permanent injection of ink onto the skin that forms an image. The most common age for someone to get a tattoo is 18 years old. This is typically the minimum age for a person to get a tattoo. Why do we have to wait in order to get a tattoo? 45 states have laws about minors getting tattoos‚ and 38 states don’t even allow minors to get them. Why is that? Is it because of the fact that a minor might make a poor decision of tattoo? Or maybe the fact that tattoos should be saved for legal adults
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Tattoo Discrimination in the Twenty-First Century “Dis·crim·i·na·tion: The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things. This is the Oxford dictionary definition of discrimination” To be ill-treated because you are different. Discrimination against those with tattoos is one of the forms of discrimination people‚ employers especially attempt to get away with. If an employer refuses to hire someone because of race‚ sex or religion it is instantly deemed as discrimination
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Tattoos In The Workplace Sarah Jo Phillips COM/150 December 19‚ 2009 Kathleen D’Aprix In some professions‚ having visible tattoos is completely taboo and in others it is not only accepted‚ but embraced. What it boils down to is the level of trust the job requires. Tattoos can mean nothing to an observer‚ or they could mean everything. Those in professional industry such as doctors‚ lawyers and teachers are expected to be professionals and dress in a certain manor. The most basic mistake
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Tattoos in the Workplace Christina Responsive-Final Draft April 4‚ 2013 There is always a lot of controversy when it comes to tattoos. Most people instantly have an opinion of them; they are either for or against tattoos. What is not realized is the fact that there is a ton of time and effort put into the sketching and placement of a tattoo. People tattoo themselves as a way of self-expression and liberation. Unfortunately‚ in the business world‚ most executives do not believe there is such
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Discriminated with Tattoos Tattoos have been around for a long time‚ and in today’s society they are considered unacceptable. We judge people with tattoos as thugs‚ people involved in gangs‚ or unprofessional. “The gang culture of the 1980s--its symbols‚ slang‚ tattoos‚ clothing style‚ hand signals and music--has trickled down to the next generation and into many suburbs” (Teen Gangs and Crime). Tattoos should not be something that people judge. Businesses discriminate people with tattoos most often
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of tattoos. Thesis: Tattoos can be viewed in two ways: positively and negatively. Introduction I. Sitting there while my hand was being held by my mom I thought to myself‚ “how in the world are my fingers still attached to my palm?” then I realized my mom was probably going through more pain than I was considering she was getting her second tattoo on the top of her foot. (Attention-getter) II. I have done some research on the different aspects of tattoos. (Credibility) III. Tattoos can
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appearance issues is revolved around the restrictions of tattoos and piercings in the work place or an educational facility. Although the First Amendment protects the practice of religion and other forms of free speech and the Fourteenth Amendment promises due process and equal protection‚ when it comes down to it in the business world‚ a professional image is crucially important to an employer. The censorship of one’s act of self expression through tattoos or piercings is anticipated to bring about controversies
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however‚ is not the only form of body art that is used. Body painting‚ tattooing‚ and branding are all similar forms of body art‚ which can be found in Africa and other cultures throughout the world. The word “tattoo” comes from the Tahitian word “tattau”‚ which means “to mark”. Tattoos have evolved from being symbols of punishment that were given to identify criminals and slaves in the early ninth-century Chinese culture‚ into a pop-culture trend of using he skin as “a way of describing the exotic
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Tiggemann‚ M.‚ Hopkins‚ A.L. (2011). Tattoos and piercings: Bodily expressions of uniqueness? Body Image‚ 8(3)‚ 245-250. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.03.007 Abbey‚ E.‚ & Davis‚ P. C. (2003). Constructing one’s identity through music. In I. J. Josephs (Ed.)‚ Dialogicality in development (pp. 69–86). Westport‚ CT: Praeger/Greenwood. Tiggemann & Hopkins (2011) investigated the motivations that influence people to modify their bodies with tattoos and piercings. Previous research has set out
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