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26) It has recently been announced that a large shopping center may be built in your 
neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and 
details to support your answer. 
 
(a) My hometown, Pentair Remiss, is a small fishing village located in west Malaysia. You 
can hardly find a shopping center there in the neighborhood. I, together with most of the 
residents in this town, would definitely most welcome the proposal of building a large 
shopping center in our neighborhood. 
Nearly one half of the residents in my neighborhood have to seek for a job in big city like 
Kuala Lumpur or Singapore. This is because most of the youngsters in my village are 
reluctant to follow their ancestors’ step to become a fisherman. They wish to pursue a 
better job in the city. By building a big shopping center, it will surely bring up a lot of 
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working opportunities for the community. Some can work as executives while others can 
work as salesperson in the shopping center. 
Other than that, the establishment of a large shopping center will provide the community a 
more comfortable and more convenient place to shop. As the weather in Malaysia is so 
hot, it will be an ideal spot to go shopping for its air-conditioning environment compared 
to the small stuffy grocery store down the town. On the other hand, it is much more 
convenient to shop in large shopping center where you can get nearly most of the goods 
here, from veggies to undergarments, just name it. 
Furthermore, the shopping center will most probably benefit the community by offering 
goods in better price. The shopping center will eventually exist as a main competitor to the 
other grocery stores and sundry shops in town. Therefore, every store will try to win their 
customers by lowering the price and at the same time offering better services. And the 
customer will certainly be the winner in this ‘pricing war’. 
In a conclusion, I fully advocate the idea of building a big shopping center in my 
neighborhood, which will be beneficial to this small town. 
(b) Some people claim that a large shopping mall would bring many problems to 
neighborhood, since they prefer to live in a peace environment. While others, like me, 
fully agree to build a large shopping center in their neighborhood because of various 
reasons. 
A large shopping mall benefits neighborhood in many areas. The most obvious 
benefit is convenience. Of course, people need not to commute far away from their home 
for buying things. They can save not only time but also money. And since a large shopping 
mall needs human resources in its operation therefore people who live nearby would be 
hired. As a result, the rate of employment would be diminished. Not only that, when 
people’s income have increased in turn automatically their lives are better. Undoubtedly, 
an investment in infrastructure such as road and utilities is necessary,
Neighborhood would get mutual benefits from such an improvement. Wherever 
department stores are located, the price of land would be naturally increased. For instance, 
my parents’ house initially cost only 2,00,000 bath, as soon as the shopping mall were 
built the cost is gradually high.
Furthermore, other business operations might be attracted by a large shopping mall, which 
create a great variety of alternations such as hair shop, restaurants, and entertainment 
places. Neighbors receive advantage in term of choice abundance because a large shopping 
mall provides a wide variety of quality products. Nearby businesses would be positively 
affected. More than that, a large shopping mall could be attractive by people from other 
areas. Consequently, it would generate cash inflow into our neighborhood. For example,