5. Your government has announced that it wishes to build a military base near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the military base?
Building a military base near my town needs strong discretion because there are pros and cons respect to the concern. It enables my town to develop rapidly with supports of government. However, people in town suffer from noises or dangers caused by military practices in the base.
First of all, positively, accepting to build the military base encourages my town to improve quickly because there will be continuous supports from government in order to provide various services to soldiers in the military base. When soldiers have rest time after military practices, they get out of the base and walk around the nearest town to find some facilities, ranging from Internet café to market. This will lead to build numerous stores in the town. Moreover, visitors to my town will increase because there will be many relatives of the soldiers. Therefore, establishing the military base will be financially helpful.
However, there are some disadvantages as well. People living in the town do not keep quiet atmosphere from military practices in the military base. Soldiers in the base will shoot guns, explodes bombs, and shouting for formation exercises. This results in making big noise and even stressing people in the town out. Moreover, the military base means that dangerous situations always exist. Some haphazard events possibly occur. It will make people worry frequently. Therefore, all these negative effects from building the military base will cause people to leave the town.
In conclusion, there should be discussion between government and people in my town in order to build the military base in my town. This is largely because it benefits my town financially but possibly bothers people in town by making noises and dangers.