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.