Instructions: For each of the original passages below, rewrite the passage in your own words (paraphrase it). Do not use direct quotes! Identify your paraphrase by using the same passage number as the original text.
The source of the passages are taken from “On Teenagers and Tattoos” by Andres Martin that was published in The Aims of Argument. The article talks about tattoos and body piercing. It is not necessary to have read the article to complete this exercise. Take each original passage in its own context and paraphrase it in your own words. For author credits, see Works Cited referenced at the end.
Original Passage 1: The intense and often disturbing reactions that are mobilized in viewers can help to effectively keep them at bay, becoming tantamount to the proverbial “Keep Out” sign hanging from a teenager’s door.
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Original Passage 2: The quest for permanence may at other times prove misleading and offer premature closure to unresolved conflicts.
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Original Passage 3: Seeking individuation, tattooed adolescents can become unambiguously demarcated from others and singled out as unique.
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Original Passage 4: The popularity of the anchor as a tattoo motif may historically have had to do less with guild identification among sailors than with an intense longing for rootedness and stability.
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Original Passage 5: By indelibly marking their bodies, adolescents can strive to reclaim their bearings within an environment experienced as alien, estranged, or suffocating or to lay claim over their evolving and increasingly unrecognizable bodies.
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Original Passage 6: Tattoos and piercing can offer a concrete and readily available solution for many of the identity crises and conflicts normative to adolescent development.
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