Epreuve d'entrée à l'iep de paris (anglais, sujet 2003)
Benefits of tourism are first seen as economical by its way of creating a new important sector in many poor countries, but it also is way to make an open minded society and to help people from different cultures understanding each other.
What kind of significant modern social and culture developments have backpackers brought to the world?
Backpackers have brought a new type of tourism on which locals get a better chance to gain their wealth, but also which provides a real way to discover a country's culture to the tourists themselves.
3. Why does the columnist find the effects of the terrorist attacks « unbearably sad»?
The columnist finds the effects of the terrorist attacks "unbearably sad" because they are a real threat for tourists who fear these attacks and so stop providing an exit from poverty for poor countries but also because by the threat it makes for the tourists these effects become a reason to stop people from discovering new cultures and foreign habits.
Synonyms
barely: nearly deliberate: on purpose collapse: fall
Graph:
This document is a bar graph has been taken from the daily news paper the economist. It was published the 28 September 2002 and is entitled "America the magnet".
This graph sows the importance of the American "brain drain" in ten countries in the world. By providing the reader approximate percentages of the proportion of students who attend to leave their country and move to America after having finished their studies, it shows the true colors of migration in these kind of in this kind of situation.
sujet 1:
"The freedom to travel safely and cheaply is one of the greatest blessings of our time -something that immeasurably expands the realm of human experience". Discuss.
Globalization has incredibly helped the development of many new and cheaper ways to travel around the world. Planes are now an affordable way to seek for new