Short Essay About Vandalism

As we walk through the city streets, or as we travel, we find graffiti for almost about anywhere. It has been around forever and it will never stop. Originally, graffiti was brought up in the subways in New York in the 1960’s, and it was a manner for real graffiti writers to express themselves to no limits. During the 1960’s, graffiti was strictly illegal; many laws were enforced against this act to the extent where these people were incarcerated for something they loved to do. For the real…

quo, against everything he believes has held him back in life. Standing back, he enjoys a brief moment of satisfaction. He checks the streets around him one last time, before hurriedly leaving the scene, satisfied with the night's work. Is this vandalism or an art form? Graffiti is an artform. Its artists perform on the cultural margins of society. It’s very clear that drawing on property is a crime, but what if the drawing can change the world? Shepard Fairey, a well known artist, has made a…

In the essay “The Multifaceted Nature of Street Art” student author Theresa George utilizes approximately seven sources to describe her beliefs about graffiti. George associates first with author Lea Vergine, as George illustrates their shared beliefs about graffiti. George discusses the various terms used by society for graffiti, such as tagging, graffiti, writing, along with Vergine’s personal belief that is “the painting of desire or wild communication” (Silverman). George points to the…

Since the invention of spray paint people have been tattooing the walls of New York with everything from murals to gang tags. Shortly after this epidemic of graffiti the New York government started to do away with the things defacing their pristine walls by whiting them out. Unfortunately, they did not just white out the gang tags. The colorful paintings of New York’s citizens were washed out by paint itself--a very ironic way to go. Some may argue that these graffiti works were what gave New…

You’re walking down the streets of London, England graffiti, littering every wall you look upon, all of them are visibly made with passion, but, it is controversial to whether graffiti is acceptable or abominable. Every year graffiti artists are charged millions of dollars for their art-related damages, even with the permission of property owners to do their artistry. However, at the same time, there are a few artists that receive payment for the art they do without legal charges like it should…

Pshhhh! Pshhhh! That’s the sound of spray paint covering the subway walls. Have people change their attitudes about graffiti over time? Graffiti can be bad or good. The graffiti artists that vandalize people's property with spray paint, is considered an illegal use of graffiti. The graffiti artists that are allowed to spray paint walls or subways, for work and volunteer serves, can be seen as legal graffiti. The attitudes towards graffiti have changed because people think graffiti is an artwork…

Vandalism is defined as an "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property" (Oxford Dictionaries, 2014). Many state laws and governments have considered graffiti to be illegal and is considered vandalism. Numerous clean up groups have been organized, and on cases that are far more serious, people that have been caught doing graffiti…

Wow! It 's been a while hasn 't it? Well today marks exactly 2 days, 19 hours, and minutes until I depart from the airport on my third missions trip to Guatemala!! It 's another two week trip which means deciding what to pack becomes infinitely harder. So below, I 've decided to include my packing list! Hopefully this helps you packing for either a missions trip to Guatemala, a missions trip in general, or just overall leaving the U.S.  Food - Obviously I put the most important thing first!…

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For those who hear of Martin Shkreli and read his story, the first thing that comes to mind might be a man with ruthless ambition or maybe a young man trying to escalate the ladder of success. Despite his arrogance and self-fishness, Martin Shkreli comes from a humble background. Shkreli was born on April 1, 1983 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of immigrant parents from Albania and Croatia. His family came to the U.S. in search for better opportunities. As they lived in New…