The document provides guidelines for effective use of colors, fonts, text, animations and common mistakes to avoid in PowerPoint presentations. It discusses keeping color themes consistent and readable, using simple fonts sized appropriately, limiting bold/italics, and using animations sparingly only when relevant to enhance the presentation content. Examples of ineffective slides are also shown that violate some of the guidelines provided.

1. Colors, Fonts, Text and Animations Covered By: Tara Mary Aziz, Ash, Ira, Maria and Debbie

3. What’s wrong with this slide? In the freshwater streams of eastern Australia lives a most unusual creature. Fur like velvet, a beaverlike tail, and a soft duckish bill, this odd-looking creature can make a curious sight for those who see it for the first time. When first seen in 1797 by early white settlers near the Hawkesbury River, outside Sydney, it triggered a search and controversy that lasted almost a century. Nicknamed the ‘watermole’, it was said to be a combination reptile, bird, fish and furred animal. The perplexed local governor sent specimens back to mother England for study. But the English found it equally unbelievable. One zoologist suggested it was ‘freak imposture’ sold to gullible seamen by Chinese taxidermists. Another, suspecting fraud, tried to prise the ‘duck’s bill’ off the pelt; the marks of his scissors can still be seen today on the original, now preserved in the British Museum of Natural History in London.

8. What’s wrong with this slide? The Death Penalty is, undeniably, one of the most controversial issues of our day. Emotional tensions are high between those who hold human life above justice and those who hold justice above all human life. Against the Death Penalty The Death Penalty, along with all other forms of criminal punishment, is barbaric. This form of punishment, indeed all forms of criminal justice, truly shows the level to which society has sunk. When people stand outside prisons and cheer as prisoners are murdered, there is a problem. When personal bloodlust is held above moral ideologies, there is a problem. When human life is assigned a value and weighed against other alternatives, there is a problem. The state speaks of Justice, but this word is only a reflection of the confusion, anger, and hatred that has fermented within this country, indeed within the very foundations of human society itself.

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