Not one shop was even interested in meeting me let alone hiring me as their apprentice. ... He told me that giving up should never be an option for something thats deep in my heart, and said if I wanted to learn, that he would teach me. ... As someone who not only has tattoos, but gives them to people, what are your feeling and thoughts towards tattoos in general? ... It requires the skill and creativity to tell their stories in a very permanent and beautiful way. ... Hearing the stories behind the tattoos and being a part of that story is the part that's the real fun for me." ...

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Richards relates the story of how, when she was young, she always said she wanted to talk to God. Because of this, she claims that "when things started coming to me, they came to me as voices. ... A dominant theme in this series is "the belief in the supernatural [as being] part of the human soul..."24 These books are romantic, realistic, and supposedly written by various vampires to the mortal world. ... King's readers are fascinated by the mind that can produce such horrifying stories, and they see him as a sort of preternatural being. ... She is also another unnatural link to...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are two dominant themes that play an important role in the book. The first theme is the structural conditions that impact and marginalize these women and men on a daily basis. The second theme is the search for respect and the reclaiming of dignity by these men and women. Through these themes Bourgois (2002:17) portrays that the people living in El Barrio are known to blame the victim for their misfortune of being the underclass of the United States population and "living in the inferno" due to their inability to compete with the classes above them who are more able of succeeding sinc...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Given this groundwork, it is apparent that memory can have a paramount and considerable effect on how events, stories, information and more importantly, history is written and passed on from generation to generation. ... The story of the internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II is an example of a memory and piece of history that has been effectively preserved and subsequently, transferred from generation to generation. ... Unfortunately, one piece of the story that is sometimes overlooked and lost in the history of Pearl Harbor and World War II is the series of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction The Victorian Age gives the impression it was an age for proper formal behavior, and that behavior is upheld by modern popular culture through movies and television. ... Artwis.com commented on the art of hairwork, saying The custom of giving and receiving hairwork can be for mourning or sentimental purposes, but its singular theme is love. Rules apply in the giving of hairwork, it can be a grand statement of affection between two people. ... Eighteenth-century sentiment was replaced by nineteenth-century sentimentality, as evoked in the following popular verse: "If I should f...

• Word Count: 3367
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: High School