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Professor Claire Lutkewitte

Comp 1500

1st Mmarch 2011

Why don’t Ppeople Kkeep Tthings Cclean?

My neighborhood, Bauhinia in Guadeloupe, is a beautiful neighborhood with one hotel and restaurant, and about 20 beautiful houses. It is located on the top of a facing the ocean. Each day, tourists are visiting. And the road is always dirty. Along the road there is garbage, and the gardens are unmaintained. For the tourists and all the inhabitants, it’s the garbage is not acceptable. Also the road is old and has holes everywhere. This bad environment does not show a good picture of our small city. The residence should also be safer; there are too many break-ins. It would be better to see the roads clean and beautiful. I think keeping the island beautiful is important to our island’s economy, keeping tourists interested, and keeping the residents here happy with their homes.

There are many easy ways to keep the neighborhood clean. This is important because a lot of tourists are coming to this hotel, and I don’t think it’s a good thing that the place is not clean. People are coming here to find fresh air beautiful views, and to appreciate the landscapes and not to see garbage. Instead the first thing they are seeing is a dirty road. It’s their first impression, which is the most important. Just having a company paid by the city, the inhabitants and the hotel, who are coming every weak to clean and maintain the roads sides should be easy. Also, palm threes should be planted all along the road and the grass should be maintained. Remove all the big garbage, which stays there for long time like an old container, all the

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cigarette butts and KFC wrappers on the pavement should be removed. At first glance, it may seem really expensive to send out cleaning crews to pick up the trash and clean the gardens all the time. But with a cleaner place more people will come. And if the neighborhood