Reflection Paragraph on Process

For a month and a half I have been working on this research and I think that through out this whole process I have learned a lot about my topic and have found many things that have helped me to learn the safeties of tattooing and the consequences of getting a tattoo. This research has shown a whole new experience to me about researching on a topic, before I started this blog I had no idea how to create a blog and publish the work into the weblog. After a while I got used to using the key board and now I'm more fluent when typing on the keyboard; this helped me in my research majorly because before I couldn't type as fast as I could now and its helping me because I can do more work faster and get it done soon then I usually would if I were typing this a year ago. My process in this research has been good so far but when I was starting this blog I had problems signing in to my page so for one whole class period I had to start my blog all over again which made me very upset because I had to start all of my work over again which me be off task then everyone else in my class. After that happened had too work double as hard to catch up with everyone in the class on my research, so that meant that I was working in class and I was working at home which became kind of annoying  because my work was interrupting with my life outside of school. A few weeks past I was back on track and I was working on task with everyone else which meant that that all of that extra work I did helped so that was good. This research was a very new expirence for me and now its so fun and easy to me now like I said before if someone asked me to do this again I will and next time it will be even better then this one that I'm doing now.

Reflection Paragraph on Sources

Through out my research I have found many things that have helped me in my process to find the truth behind tattooing and its history and meaning, this process took me over a month to find and so far its helped me through my research. First, I would like to say that my main source of information was found on the Internet and that the website that has helped me find these websites would have to be Google.com because that is the main website to find information on a topic that you are researching or are interested to know about. Next, I can say that the information that I  have taken from the Internet about tattooing and have used in my research has all been proven by archaeologists and historians around the world, there are no misproven facts or quotes that have been used in research, there are many websites that have information that is completely wrong but the website that has is been used by many people that has wrong information would most definatly have to be Wicapedia.com . Lastly, my research has a very different experience to me because to be honest I'm not really good with working a computer, so I'm pritty suprized to see that I can be doing this right now, and another thing that I would like to say is that this research has been very fun and educational to me and if I were to be assigned to do this again I would.

Works Cited

• "Even if you have quality pigments and use the recommended carriers to mix the ink, there are other, less obvious potential health hazards associated with tattoo inks: Alcohol makes skin more permeable. This means that when alcohol is used in the ink or to disinfect the skin's surface, it allows more chemicals to cross into the bloodstream than ordinarily would".
• "Samuel O'Reilly invented the electric tattooing machine in 1891. O'Reilly improved upon an earlier tattoo machine invented by Thomas Edison that did not succeed commercially. Tattoo machines work by using a hollow needle filled with permanent ink. An electric motor pushes the needle in and out of the skin at a rate of up to 3,000 punctures per minute. The tattoo needle inserts a small drop of ink about 1/8 of an inch below the surface of the skin each time".
• "Our word came from Polynesian languages such as Tahitian and Samoan and was introduced to English speakers by the explorer Capt. James Cook (who also gave us the word taboo). The earliest use of the verb tattoo in English is found in 1769 in his account of a voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. Cook also used a noun in his writings of 1769 but treated it as a native word so he is not given credit for the first use of the noun in English (recorded in 1777".
• "Skin was the first canvas for art. Sticks and other pointy objects were the first paintbrushes. Tattooing was first a form of scarification. This involved wounding oneself and packing dirt or ashes into the scrape or cut to discolor it permanently. It is believed that prehistoric man cut holes in his skin, charred sticks in the fire, let them cool and then applied the black substance to the wound to create tribal markings. As tattooing involved pain, blood and fire, primitive man believed the process released sacred life forces. The letting of blood was also associated with a sacrifice to the Gods. The symbol or animal form of the tattoo was thought to bring one protection from attack from that very same animal. Tattoos were also used to bring one's soul in alignment with God's purpose, increase virility and fertility, ensure the preservation of the body after the death and delineate hierarchies and roles within tribes. For instance, a tribal chieftain would have a very different tattoo than the individual in the tribe who was thought to bring them all bad luck. As skin does not preserve that well there is very archeological evidence that prehistoric people engaged in tattooing, although a few Paleolithic artifacts that have been discovered seem to suggest that the art of tattooing is as old as mankind".
• "There are few art forms that have been around for as long as tattooing – in fact, some anthropologists claim that the history of tattoos may date back as long as 15,000 years! Certainly, we know that many of the ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, used tattooing techniques. There are mentions of tattooing in the Bible, indicating that it was practiced among the ancient peoples of the Middle East as well. However, the remarkable thing about the history of tattoos is not just the length of time that humans have practiced it; looking at the history of body tattooing, we cannot help but be struck by how widespread this tradition was. Apparently, decorating the body in this permanent way is an almost universal impulse spread over a lot of different cultures".

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Reflection Paragraph on Findings

Some of the most important facts that I have found in my research were these:

• The Origins of tattooing was developed in Polynesia
• Samuel O'Reilly created the first mechanical tattoo gun
• You can die from having a tattoo because of the ink an artist is not safe
• People that have tattoos have a lower chance of getting a job then people that don't have tattoos
• The safest ink to use is also the most expensive
• Tattooing had meaning to people in the past then they do now
• The meaning of tattoos were more about religion then they were in popularity, in the past
• Tattoo designs have developed by a lot since they were created
• There are over a billion of different tattoo designs in America alone
• Early Egyptian Pharaohs had tattoos to show there leadership
• Tattoo companies like LA ink have over 500 people come to get tattoos in a single day

Finding Paragraph #3

Finding the information on my topic was kind of hard to find because there were so many sites that I have looked at and saw that they had incorrect information. To be honest I could only find about 7 or 8 websites that have the right information and that I have used in my research. These sites have all different types of topics in them, from What's the safest ink to use?, to How did the Polynesian tattoo artists create tattoos and why? I would tell you more about it but I would be here for days so I can say that there was a lot of information in these websites. I'm about to be done with my research and I can say that there were a lot of new things that I have learned about when I was researching for instances I thought that the origins of tattooing was in Africa but when I went on google and researched it I found out that the origins of tattooing was actually in Polynesia. That shock me because for a very long time I thought that African people made tattoos first because I watch a lot shows on the history channel and they had an episode on tattoos and they were talking about the origins of tattooing and many people said that it originated in Africa but I suppose that they are wrong.

Finding Paragraph #2

When I first started this research I thought that it was going to be a breeze, but when I actually started it turned out to be more difficult then I thought it would be, because there was detailed information that I was researching that was very hard to find. For instance one of the topics that I was trying research was "Who created the first mechanical tattoo gun", when I typed that in google.com there were at least 23 different pages on websites that information on tattoos. I had to go through almost all of them until I finally found the site, once I got on the cite I was astonished to find out that Thomas Edison was the first person to attempt to create a tattoo gun, he couldn't do it sadly. But an inventor by the name of Samuel O'Reilly found a way to create a tattoo gun in the late 1800's. For generation inventors have been creating new and improved tattoo guns I bet in the future there will be more ideas and more improvements on the tattoo gun. If you are researching on the history of tattooing or the history of tattoo guns then you should go to this site http://tattoos.lovetoknow.com/Tattoo_Guns