1/5 Week Assignment

I need and want to know several things for my final product. I want to know what kind of impact photojournalism has made in individual lives and to what extent it did. I want to know if photojournalism can bring about actual change and fix major world problems. I want to know, in fact, need to know, if the path I have chosen for my life (photojournalism), is meaningful, is change-inspiring, and is important. I want to know that using photojournalism as a tool to change the world for the better is possible.
My current essential question is still the same that it was earlier: How can I utilize photojournalism and all its elements to such an effective degree that I express common social, political, and economic problems of our generation and promote awareness of said various world issues?
I plan to use other elements beside my website. I want to display some of my work, and mainly, some of the work of my greatest inspiration and possibly best photojournalist of all time- Steve McCurry (National Geographic- Afghan Girl). I also want to use a powerpoint presentation and oral anecdotes regarding my own experiences.
I will interview regular people. Because my whole research centers on the idea, the hope, that photojournalism effects REGULAR people, completely removed from the field of journalism. I want to see that photojournalism has effected normal people, maybe without them even knowing it.