ESSAY TOPIC 5 : A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position.

Building a new factory nearby a community will affect on people’s everyday life and their future. The environment of the town will also alter. Although it changes people’s life in a bad way, it also has some benefits. Factories are not created to just harm people, they are built actually in favor of us. So I support the idea of building new factories.  I think it’s beneficial but it also has some disadvantages.

Firstly, it’s advantageous because it develops the country, people’s life, the economy. If it’s a successful factory it will have lots of supporters, It may also be a counterpart with businessmen n from other countries and that will help the factory to increase its level and to be a great company which defiantly is in favor of the country.
Secondly, the factory is new so it has  free work places and it’s a great opportunity for jobless people to have a new job. So the unemployment rate will drop significantly and I think unemployment is one of the biggest problems in my country. Several years ago my best friend’s father lost his job, so he was unemployed for couple of months but then fortunately there was build a factory near their house. So it was a great chance for him to get a job. Just imagine if many other factories were built and hundreds more available work places appeared, that would be a huge drop of the rate of jobless people.  

On the other hand, factories may also be dangerous. The first thing that we think about when we say “factory” is pollution. It pollutes the air, the environment, everything around it. There are different kinds of factories, small ones, great ones. But even the smallest factories pollute the area around it. Though factory creators try to build a factory that will not pollute, but actually it’s mostly impossible. Factories are harmful for fruits, vegetables, even water. Factories pollute the land and from the polluted land there is not going to come up harmless and healthy food. Besides that different pollution cause a series of health problems: cancer, asthma, allergies, heart diseases and lots of other dangerous illnesses. I always hear from news or read about how people die from pollution. One time I read an article about a person who was the creator of the idea to build a new factory. He was a hundred percent sure that his factory was harmless to people. He even built a house near his factory, several months later he got a terrible heart disease from pollution and could even die from it. He changed his mind about the factory and finally realized that every factory brings lots of problems, even his factory.

So, to summarize, in my opinion factories are beneficial to the country in many ways. They create new work places for unemployment, and if they’re successful factories, they will develop the country and it’s economy. With all of those benefits that they bring to country they are also killing people. They bring different kinds of diseases, they pollute the area around it. So it’s really hard to choose if its adventurous or disadvantageous. But in my opinion all the factories are built in favor of people but sometimes  it can harm them. So I think they are mostly beneficial.​

(Written by Mariam Mirzoyan)