Title: Members of championship Westbrook baseball team avoid jail time for post-victory vandalism By: Brogan‚ Beth‚ Bangor Daily News (ME)‚ Sep 03‚ 2013 Database: Newspaper Source Plus Members of championship Westbrook baseball team avoid jail time for post-victoryvandalism Sept. 03--PORTLAND‚ Maine -- Twelve Westbrook High School athletes who vandalized South Portland fields and golf carts after winning the state baseball championship in June will avoid jail time‚ Cumberland County District
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they choose. It’s the loss of the stuck up art critics of the street “who see graffiti solely as vandalism and urban decay” (Davich) when it is much more than mere child’s play and mischief. The transition from “gang related origins and a vandalism-pock marketed reputation” (Davich) to something’s that can be viewed as a form of restoration and new beginning is a
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Graffiti: art or vandalism. Some people think that graffiti is an art‚ others - that it is vandalism. What’s right? There are so many different opinions. Back in the 70s‚ graffiti was an example of anti-social behavior. Nowadays‚ we call it “Street Art” and you can see it in unexpected places and on different things: on clothes‚ on toys‚ on billboards and even on the Wall Street Journal’s official website. Graffiti is an art and we should appreciate and value what artists want to tell us and how
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Graffiti Is graffiti an art or vandalism? In my opinion graffiti is one of the most creative art that is not recognized simply because how it is displayed. Let’s say artists like Picasso‚ Leonard‚ or any famous artist decided to paint of their masterpiece in somewhere at a building then would it still be considered as art or will it be thrown away since they decided to call it graffiti? Graffiti is the plural form of the Italian word grafficar. In plural‚ grafficar signifies drawings‚ markings
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Graffiti: Vandalism or Art The debate between graffiti being a form of vandalism‚ or a form of art has become a major issue within the urban community. Some people view graffiti as a form of vandalism because of the act of defacing property. Others may view graffiti as a form of art and self expression. Although its artistic merits cannot be denied‚ graffiti is still in fact a form of vandalism. There are four primary motivating factors for graffiti vandalism: fame‚ rebellion‚ self expression
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argument usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of is graffiti art. Whereas some convinced that it is vandalism‚ other maintains that it is a crime. Most people would agree that graffiti is a way an artist can express his or her feelings‚ inspires today’s generation‚ and accessible to the public. In 2011 the mayor of Toronto Rob Ford created a “graffiti eradication campaign” to end all vandalism happening in Toronto. Ford believes that graffiti risks the health‚ the safety‚ and security of communities
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Liam Eifert English 802 October 12‚ 2014 Graffiti in Urban Society Defining what is or is not art is difficult. Another concept that is difficult to define is what constitutes a crime and why something is considered a crime. In the case of graffiti and street art‚ both of these difficult concepts collide‚ creating a very controversial subject. Since the beginning of simple hip hop graffiti in Philadelphia during the 1960s‚ graffiti has evolved into many different forms and has developed a subculture
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“Safety Graffiti on Hedges‚” by Katya Sander‚ created with white spray paint and green hedges‚ depicts safety procedures on the hedges outside of suburban homes. Each image shows a different safety procedure; such as‚ the heimlich maneuver‚ mouth-to-mouth resuscitation‚ or evacuation routes. Sander sprayed the white paint on the hedges of a Denmark community; regardless‚ these maneuvers are universally known‚ making it easy for anyone to decipher her artistic message. Due to the simplicity of the
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When the Walls Talk: Graffiti and its effects on society | | | Fernando Gomez Cabral | ITT-Technical Institute Corona‚ CAMrs. DixonEN1320 Composition I | | Graffiti as an art form is a controversial subject in the art world. Is it vandalism‚ or is it art? Graffiti itself has come a long way from just being scrawls in a bathroom or random tags on a wall. It has been embraced worldwide by the hip hop culture as a legitimate form of artistic expression. An outlet with endless possibilities
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Kassandra Morales English 1010 Paper 2 10/26/14 Graffiti art People argue back and forth for years about graffiti art intensely. But it is art through illegal vandalism Graffiti is still art. The artwork on graffiti is brought out wrongly from different point of views. The complexities of the different forms of artwork used are used in many different ways. Graffiti has a certain ‘appeal’ to many people. It gives an unknown person a chance to speak through art. The textures and shadowing they
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