Keeping our city clean 2

The topic that I picked for my project is keeping our city clean; I am very interested in this topic because it affects me personally on a day to day basis. I live in the city of Detroit; trash and vandalism have become part of my daily life. I have to drive around through the city everyday to get things done and everywhere I turn there is a burned down home, trash on the sidewalks and writing all over garage doors. I am sure that I am not the only one that witnesses these things, everyone that lives here also see them but choose to ignore them. I am voicing my opinion because I strongly feel that all of this needs to stop and it needs to stop now.
In my project I included pictures of homes that are being abandoned by their owners and others are coming in and burning them for no apparent reason. Many people take unwanted garbage or personal belongings and are dumping them on the front or back yards of the burned and abandoned homes. While I was doing my research I found a website that the city of Detroit has that has phone numbers on there to call if you see people dumping garbage on other properties illegally. They also give addresses and phone numbers of places close to home where people can take their recyclable goods and have them recycled. They have dates according to zip codes on when the city comes and picks up unwanted belongings aside from regular everyday garbage.
There are many services out there that are available to us and many of us don’t take advantage of them or we choose to blame others for the unclean environment that we live in. This presentation was designed to get the viewer thinking about what it is that they want to get involved with their community if they aren’t already. If you are involved with your community you should encourage others to do the same and together we can save our city from trash and vandalism. While taking these pictures I kept thinking to myself, what do people think when they come and dump loads of garbage in a property that is not even theirs? Or what they think when they write on garage doors that do not even belong to them?
I feel that if we all got involved as a community our streets and houses wouldn’t have to look this way. I included nine pictures in my presentation as examples of the type of environment that people in Detroit have been living in thus far. Basically, I made a question based presentation in the first few slides I asked the viewers questions and then showed them the pictures. I wanted to keep my viewers thinking throughout the whole presentation about the environment they were living in and I wanted them to decide if they were going to get involved and try to help this cause.
I used big bold letters because I wanted the message that I was trying to get out stick to the viewers. I used a light color because I didn’t want the background to interfere with the font and color for the text I had picked, I figured if I used a dark background and a dark font the message would not be read clearly. I also added some effects on the pictures and the text to make my presentation somewhat interesting. I added a bomb sound effect on every slide to make the entering of new text and pictures a bit more suspenseful. I also enlarged most of the pictures because I thought that visual aid was a greater part of my presentation.
I really hope that I got my point across with my power point presentation and that it does get at least my classmates thinking about the community they live and what to do to help. Like I mentioned earlier this problem affects me personally because I live in a community that is infested with all of these things. A community who is also full of people that could care less about what surrounds them or who cant even bother to make one phone call to the city and let them know what is going on so that it can be taken care of, do not let this happen to you.

Wana Give Up

The name of the poem I picked is “Wanna Give Up”, I am sure that this poem can relate to a lot of people as well as me; this poem relates to me in more than one way. Basically, this poem is talking about someone who is in love but is scared to commit in fear of being hurt. Although, their heart is “telling” them that it’s in love. The purpose of my design was to make the key words or the main idea of the poem draw the reader’s attention.
I made the key words in the poem of a larger font, for example, if you read only the words that are standing out, you will get an overall idea of what the poem is about without having to read it all. In the beginning of the poem I used smaller fonts for the key words; to give the impression that the person in love is calmly telling themselves “no, I don’t want to be in love, shut up heart”. Toward the end of the poem the font on the keywords gets bigger; this gives the impression that the person in love is now demanding their heart to stop “saying” it is in love. I included the red because every time I think of love and hearts I think of the color red.
For the word “broken” I used a font with spines in it because looking at spines would make you think of something painful like heartbreak. Just in case my message with the spines wasn’t understood clearly I included a broken heart in the end. I separated the text into two columns, that way the poem could be read from left to right; each column could also be read individually and the reader could still get the same overall idea of what the poem is about. I also replaced the word “walking” with the icon of a person who, to a reader might look like they are walking, running or stepping. No matter what way the reader interprets this icon it would still make sense and flow with the overall idea of the poem.

Keeping our city clean

The topic I picked for my project is keeping our city clean, a very interesting topic. I picked it because this issue is part of our everyday lives, yet alot of people seem to want to ignore it. Even though, many groups try to help this cause from time to time, things seem to always go back to the way they were. I strongly believe that every single one of us, as well as everyone in our community should be contributing to this great cause. For my project I plan to make a 6-slide power point presentation with , pictures of what vandalism, garbage and destruction to abandoned homes do to our community.
In my presentation I plan to include contact information for the Detroit Metro area and the cleaning services they provide. Some of the help to make our city a better place is there waiting for us , its just that no one cares enough to use them.For those of you who do not live in a city that has streets full of trash, with vandalized and destroyed abandoned homes and building, should take what this presentation is advocating and learn from it. That way your streets, homes and buildings stay clean of trash and vandalism 'til now.
This topic clearly affects me because I live in the city of Detroit and everyday i drive in and out of Detroit to go to school and back; i have to drive through all those streets with trashed and vandalized buildings. My family, my neighbors and I try to keep our block clean from all of these things. I thought that maybe if every neighborhood tried to put in the same effort into keeping their block clean we would have nicer streets in our city. If everyone recycled, threw the trash away instead of on the floor, took trash out for the trucks to pick it up and not dump it in empty lots, not trash or vandalize homes our city would be a better place.