DEATH+TO+GRAFFITTI

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toc Our group is trying to focus on the issue of graffiti in our community. Our group includes Blake, Chris, Jessie and Tyneesha. (That was in alphabetical order) First of all what is graffiti? Graffiti:[//(noun)// Singular: Graffito] its the name given to the random scratching and spraying of letters on walls as acts of random vandalism.

=//__**THE ISSUE**__//= Hello, and our issue is graffiti and we are supposed to be tackling the issue that is: Graffiti! The taggers are given to much freedom within our community. We must tackle this issue as a group and we must be critical in thought. Here is the inquiry task for our team. Here is also the inquiry model...



=__//**WHAT WE WILL DO**//__= media type="youtube" key="I8RS-Kgd0e0&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"media type="youtube" key="QBJSl4BqnEc&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" =**//__WHO WILL GET THE JOBS__//**= Tyneesha will get the job of: Finding graffiti within the community. Research and maintaining the 'DEATH TO GRAFFITI' wikispaces site. Chris will get the job of: Typing out pamplets and posters. Research and maintaining the 'DEATH TO GRAFFITI' wikispaces site. Blake will get the job of: Circulating the posters,pamphlets,organizing the fund raisers, and paint-outs. Research and maintaining the 'DEATH TO GRAFFITI' wikispaces site. Jessie will get the job of: Designing the posters and pamphlets. Research and maintaining the 'DEATH TO GRAFFITI' wikispaces site.
 * 1) We must think about the issue in the community.
 * 2) We need to think about which angle we are looking at the problem.
 * 3) We must think of a thing to do to help the community.
 * 4) Graffiti is coming more and more common and it needs to stop. There are so many acts of vandalism happening in the community. It happens mostly in the south Auckland area such as Otara and other places that are infested with street urchins.
 * 5) We are looking to solve or help the situation of graffiti in this community. We must kill all graffiti makers or we will die.
 * 6) We could clean up the graffiti to hep the community, but that is not a quick fix. We could make pamphlets or posters to disencourage this outrageous practice.
 * 7) We are trying to stop this.

=__//Time line//__=

//'////Tracy 168' was one of the Graffiti pioneers. As you can see he has scrawled on this train carriage. Also here is some Ancient Graffiti.//

Before, 40,000 years ago, cave-men drew on the walls of their caves. Using ochere and natural dyes they scratched their designs of animals. they are kind of lifke graffiti

In Ancient Rome there used to be graffiti on buildings in the empire. We know this because archaeologists found the remains of Pompei which was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius there were graffiti in Latin scrawled on walls. There was also some in ancient Greece.

Modern graffiti actually began in Philadelphia in the early sixties, when Some people scrawled their names all over Philadelphia. By the late sixties, it was flourishing in across America. The //New York// //Times// took notice in July 1971, reporting about the increase of graffiti in America.

By the mid-seventies, many subway cars were so completely covered in top-to-bottom paintings (known as “pieces”) that it was impossible to see out the window. For graffitists, this was a golden age, when the most skilled could become known as “kings” by going “all-city”—writing their names everywhere. Mayor Lindsay declared the war on graffiti in 1972, beginning a long, == slow battle that seemed to be won, when the last graffitied train was finally removed from service.

Yet today, there is examples in graffiti in every large city. Nearly every surface in big cities are now covered by the atrocious crime. But the war on graffiti will prevail one day.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =__//**THE 8**//__ __//**QUESTIONS**//__=
 * 1) Where is the most common place for people to graffiti?
 * 2) What time is most common for a graffitiest to strike?
 * 3) Why do people graffiti?
 * 4) What systems are in place to stop graffiti?
 * 5) How do we stop graffiti?
 * 6) Do businesses get funded to clean up the graffiti on their buildings?
 * 7) What do graffitiests use while graffiting?
 * 8) What age group has the most graffiti artists?

=__//**HYPOTHESIS**//__=
 * 1) We think that the seats on the buses are the most common place for graffiti plus on trucks as well. Also walls, fences and old cars.
 * 2) Early in morning.... 12 am - 4.30 am
 * 3) Sometimes maybe when they are bored and have been influenced by something on other graffiti.
 * 4) Sensor pads, electric fences and neighborhood watches.
 * 5) Maybe by making walls to graffiti or by having no influence around to provoke it.
 * 6) We think they do but ony little bit of money.
 * 7) Spray cans, pens, markers, lighters, lighters, needles and pretty much everything else.
 * 8) Teenagers aged from 14 - 18.

=__//**Investigating**//__=
 * 1) The truth is that most grafiti appears on walls, fences and buses.
 * 2) It actually happens late at night and early in the morning.
 * 3) They want to get known.
 * 4) Walls with sprinklers and sensors if someone comes close, fencing and lookouts.
 * 5) Some places are making designated walls for people to do graffiti on.
 * 6) There is only a total of $6 million for the whole of New Zealand funded to paint out graffiti.
 * 7) The most common graffiti is made by using spray cans.
 * 8) There is no particular age for taggers but most are teenagers tryng to look cool and get their name out into the world of tagging.

=__//**THINKING DEEPER**//__= Here are more things...

//__BRAINSTORM__//

 * 1) The first is to do a petition to increase the age that people must be to by spray cans from 18 to 22 which can help to combat most of the taggers as most taggers are bored teenagers trying to look cool. We will also send the petition to paliament.
 * 2) Our second idea is to paint out graffiti in our local community. But we need money to get paint for this to be possible to do. So we are going to do fundraisers to get money and talk to some paint companies or companies that supply paint so that we can afford more paint so we can paint out more tags.
 * 3) Perhaps a fundraising event at our local market.
 * 4) Posters and pamphlets to be put in the community about graffiti.
 * 5) Here are the documents that we made for the action plan.
 * [[file:Letter to PM concerning graffiti.doc]]
 * [[file:Petition.doc]]

=ACTION PLAN= Confirmed action plan:
 * 1) Send a letter to the Government with a petition attached to it. The purpose of this action is to increase the legal age of buying spray paint to 21 years of age.
 * 2) To get sponsorship from big paint companies to paint over graffiti.

**__//What we think//__**

 * //Blake// || //I think that graffiti must be prevented to keep our communities in good condition.// ||
 * //Chris// || //I think graffiti is a very serious issue, not in our community, though. I think that in Howick we are very fortunate.// ||
 * //Jessie// || //I think that graffii is cool in some aspect but can be really ugly.// ||
 * //Tyneesha// || //I think that graffiti is really bad in our community and it is growing rapidly and it needs to be stopped.// ||

= = = = =**__//Reflection//__**=

We should get a response between 3 and 7 days. || Blake || Teacher Comment - What a great wiki page team, well done. You action plan sounds really good and feasible. I looks like you have put quite a few plan into place and I think if we get around to doing your action plan it will run smoothly. I like the way your group has designated different jobs and have a range of responsibilities. Keep up the good work. Mr R Useful Sites: [|wikipedia.org] [|google.co.nz] [|graffiticreator.net] [|youtube.com]
 * 09/09/08 || We added 2 videos and put a reflection area. We made a brainstorm and then added it on our page. || Pugu ||
 * 25/09/08 || We added research, thinking deeper, investigating, and timeline. || Graffiti Bustas ||
 * 13/10/08 || Added more action plans, and added to the timeline. We have also emailed Resene, Dulux, Mitre 10, Bunnings Warhouse, Guthrie Bowron and our local paint shop Colour Plus for sponsership.
 * 15/10/08 || Added more to the action plan and recieved email from company with contact details of our local store manager and have emailed him. || Blake ||
 * 16/10/08 || We have recieved sponsorship from Resene and have asked for 50L of grey 100% waterbased paint to start off with. || Blake ||
 * 28/10/08 || We have recieved the paint from Resene and will now plan where we will paint out graffiti and when. || Blake ||
 * 3/11/08 || We have organised painting equipment and now need to decide whenand where to paint out graffiti. ||  ||