26. Do you like a new movie theater being built in your neighborhood?
It has recently been announced that a new movie theater may be built in your neighborhood. Do you
support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
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Edited by Lost Lawyer
Many people consider our town a small provincial backwater, lacking both culture and the amenities of
modern life. Building the recently proposed movie theater would be a step in the right direction, away from our
backwards past, and towards participation in the larger world. It will create jobs, spark economic activity, and
provide entertainment and culture for our young people.
Movie theaters are necessarily large-scale affairs, attract a large amount of customers, and accordingly need to
employ a fairly large number of people as ushers, concession stand chefs and attendants, ticket sellers, and
janitorial staff, as well as projection technicians, managers, accountants, and other higher-level professionals. The
employees would be drawn from the local population, and considering the tight job market in the area, the movie
theatre would provide much needed full or supplement incomes for at least thirty families in the area.
Going to the movies is usually an evening experience that either precedes or comes directly after eating
dinner. For this reason many restaurants, cafes, bars, music shops, and other leisure and entertainment venues
spring up around movie theatres. People who are going to the movies have disposable incomes and have already
left their houses in search of a good time. This is an ideal market, and local entrepreneurs are certain to capitalize
on the opportunity to open up new business ventures and develop the lucrative area around the movie theater,
further invigorating the local economy.
In addition to providing jobs and developing the local economy, a movie theater will bring us a little bit closer
to the outside world. We will be able to participate in popular culture. A movie theater is one step in this direction,
and if we can successfully transform our sleepy little hamlet into a regional cultural hot spot, we will be able to keep
our young people from migrating to larger cities that they consider more developed and sophisticated. Our young
people are our most precious resource and we should do everything to keep them here.
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