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Hal 114, Expository Text 2 1. What is the author claiming? Graffiti is always vandalism 2. What reasons does the author use to support the claim? - Graffiti is something that one celebrates, if one is juvenile enough to do so. - Graffiti’s most salient characteristic is that it is a crime 3. What evidence does the author include? - No institution that has celebrated Graffiti in recent years — like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles or the Museum of the City of New York would allow its own premises to be defaced for even one minute. - Graffiti is committed without permission on another person’s property, in an adolescent display of entitlement. - John Lindsay, the progressive New York politician who served as mayor from 1966 to 1973, declared war on graffiti in 1972 4. What does the author say as the closing? in the end, the author says that there is nothing "progressive" about allowing public amenities to be defaced by graffiti and tagging shows that an area is do...