Conclusion for this topic

Banning vandalism isn't enough. We can let the vandalizers vandalise at a specific location, like a special wall that is meant to be painted on.

The consequences of vandalism are that the vandalisers could be jailed or/and fined. What if the vandaliser has a family to take care of? What if he's/she's the breadwinner of the family?

It is important to respect other people's property as they might have scrimp and save to buy that particular item and it is vandalised, how would they feel?Well,all I know is that Iwill feel angry and hatred will build up in my body for that vandaliser.

We can prevent vandalism in our class by appointing prefects to guard classrooms during recesses.

We can prevent vandalism in the environ ment by setting up high and hard fences around the easily vandalised areas. The fences will be so high and hard that you need special entry to get in.

Well that's our final post.

Reflection on this topic

The type of messages that gives visitors to school are like this " What a bad school! I sure wouldn't dare come again!" Not only that it also gives the school a bad name as the visitor spread the "Bad school reputation" around.Also people don't feel safe around the vandalised areas as they feel that the area is like full of ruffians and hooligans.I think school rules are important as it organises the school and the school will then have a lesser burden to carry - by not needing to care about the students discipline as the pupils are already well disciplined.
Vandalisms will breach these rules as they throw the school in a complete confusion as they need to find the culprit behind the vandalism.

I think vandalism is sometimes good as in for art or decorations, but bad when used for other purposes like breaking windows, littering and others. Vandalism is like art when used for good purposes. It expresses the persons feelings.

Effects of vandalisms in our community and schools

There will be a lot of trouble for the teachers , students and principles as the teachers and principle would have to find out who caused the vandalisms and the student might be accidentally blamed for doing a crime he or she did not commit. The visitors who visit the school will have a bad impression on that school as the certain place is vandalised.

Guess who usually pays for the vandalised properties in school? The principle of course! That will affect the school budget as if more people vandalises, the principle will have to fork out more money to pay for the damage.

The vandalisms will affect the students as it distracts them. It also affects the teacher's teaching as they will have to stop and scold the pupils who are talking about the vandalisms.

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In our community, the ones that are affected by the vandalisms are families and workers. Let's just say that everyone is affected, even animals. The families will have to pay for the damage. The animals might mistaken some vandalism for their nest or something and hurt themselves. The environment will be affected as the waste the vandalizers made might be thrown away anyhow.

Usually the ones who pays for the damage are the parents of the vandalizers or the government as they sent people to repair the damage.

The families are affected by the vandalisms as they might be hurt by sharp litters around them. The animals, like I've said earlier, will be hurt as it mistook something for it's home or food. The environment, will be damaged as the litter will have more bacteria growing and it might kill the plants or tiny organisms.

Vandalisms galore?!

There are too many vandalisms in our community like, littering and urinating in public lifts, drawing on walls of void decks and a lot more!

The toilets are mostly always the ones that are badly vandalised.

In our community:

In schools:

Usually the male toilets are usually the most vandalised.

Who are the culprits and why do I think the people vandalise?

The people who vandalises are usually teenagers, terrorists or protesters.

Why them? As you know, teenagers like us have a lot of stress. so the might vandalise because he or she have a grudge against the owner or maybe he or she wants to de-stress themselves by vandalising.

Terrorists, on the other hand, might do it because they want to destroy the property of the the country he rebels against.

Protesters, you know what they do, they want the president, for example, to step down and let another person to become president because he is not very good at being president. So, the protesters vandalises and force the president to step down.

Well, if you have any comments you would like to add on or remove, tell me by commenting on this!

What are the types of vandalisms?

The types of vandalisms are:

Acquisitive

Definition: to acquire money or property, for example, breaking into drink machines

This causes people not to be able to buy stuff in the machines

Tactical

Definition: to damage is a conscious tactic, a means to achieve some other end, such as breaking a window to be arrested and get a bed in prison

This causes other peoples property loss for the vandalisers own benefits

Ideological

Definition:similiar to tactical vandalism, but carried out further an explicit ideological cause or to deliver a message, for example, chalking slogans on walls, graffiti, tagging, etc.

This not only insults the person, the people will also look out for him and the person will lose his reputation.


Vindictive

Definition:damage in order to obtain revenge, for example, breaking school windows to settle a grudge against a teacher

This will affect the other pupil's learning in the school

Play

Definition: damage in the context of a game; who can break the most windows in a house

This will affect the people's properties

Malicious

Definition:an expression of rage or frustration and is often directed at symbolic middle class property. It is a type that has the vicious and apparently senseless facade which people find so difficult to understand.

This makes the people worried about their properties

All are found from: http://www.princegeorgeva.org/Index.aspx?page=692

What is vandalism?

Definition: Vandalism is the behaviour attributed to the Vandals in respect of culture: ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or venerable. Such action includes criminal damage, defacement, graffiti and crass erection of an eyesore
Found from: http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:vandalism&ei=08u4Sf_FGYiO6gPYmOzzBA&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

From our group's definition: Vandalism is about destroying someone's precious property or the environment.
Do you know that littering is considered vandalising as well?
Vandalism isn't cool, so to all the vandalisers out there: STOP VANDALISING!