Arguments & Authorship

      An argument is a expression of views that are expressed in order to persuade someone that they are either right or wrong. Recently at Clemson there has been an outburst of students that say Clemson is racist and needs to make changes to building names, specifically Tillman, an iconic building on campus. The students argument relies solely on the fact that Tillman was a slave owner when he was alive. Recent issues on campus with fraternity parties have made these students even more dedicated in their efforts to make Clemson more racially accepting. The issue is a racial conflict. It is important because if Clemson changes the name of Tillman to please these students they will be showing efforts to be more diverse, however, if they do not Clemson will seem to value the school's history more than the angry students wishes. Clemson is in a tough situation but ultimately should do what is in the best interest of Clemson University as a whole.

     For my essay my topic is visual art like graffiti making artists authors as well. In many countries where free speech is a foreign thought graffiti translates the citizens struggles and thoughts when they cannot directly express them. Graffiti also breaks down language barriers. Because graffiti is art, the images are simply complimented by words so even if you don't speak the language you can still figure out what the author/artist was trying to achieve. Authorship can be defined in many different ways and artists and authors share many of the same goals for their finished products.