kings of Mayan cities or Easter Island villages. Jared Diamond tells the story of the Viking explorer Erik the Red, who discovered Greeland and Vinland (Terranova, in Canada). Another character is captain Olafsson, a norse sailor who wrote the last news about Greenland in 1410. Another main character is Christopher Columbus, who arrived at Hispaniola in 1492, but now this island is two countries, the Dominican Republic and the Haiti. Diamond studied the politics of two presidents. the dominican Rafael
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The Diamond Empire Most of the world's diamonds come through an organization that is ran by the South African company named De Beers. Those in the diamond business know that there is a great deal of money at stake if they share about what they do. De Beers cannot operate legally in the US because it is a virtual monopoly. London is where 80% of the world’s diamonds are sorted, graded and sold. De Beers has control over the chain of supply of diamonds and that is how they have control of the
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Blood Diamonds, also known as “Conflict Diamonds” are diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments. They are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments that has resulted in over 4 million deaths and the displacement of millions of people in Angola, Sierra Leone, the DRC, Liberia, and Ivory Coast. Diamonds played a key role in obtaining funds to provide combatants with food, clothing, transportation, and
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The makers of “Blood Diamond,” an exceptionally thriller starring a most excellent Leonardo DiCaprio, want you to know there may be blood on your hands, specifically your wedding finger. The story involves so-called conflict diamonds, illicitly mined stones that have been used to finance some of the most vicious wars in Africa. If films were judged solely by their good intentions, this one would be best in show. Instead, gilded in money and dripping with sanctimony, confused and mindlessly contradictory
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BLAW 2006 Company Law BLAW 2006 COMPANY LAW FOR BUSINESS SUMMER SCHOOL – 2015 ASSIGNMENT In February, Butch made the decision that he was going to register a company to own and operate a diamond mine. He estimated that the company would need to raise $20M by way of a share issue and he planned to approach the members of his golf club, which has 100 wealthy members. Butch considered that the company would only need $10M of the $20M in the initial exploration phase but would require
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A selection of rough diamonds from Voorspoed Mine ACTION ETHICS Protecting THE INTEGRITY OF DIAMONDS 33 ETHICS OUR COMMITMENT TO MEETING THE highest ethical standards IS FOUNDED ON OUR aspiration TO LIVE UP TO THE unique qualities OF DIAMONDS. THE BEHAVIOUR OF OUR EMPLOYEES, THE ROBUSTNESS OF OUR COMPLIANCE SYSTEMS and our commitment to transparency maintain stakeholder confidence in our business and play a key role in upholding ‘diamond equity’. De Beers aims to meet or exceed all applicable
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the rules of the international diamond market? How are they enforced? * De Beers and the other diamond companies of the their time and specifically the Central Selling Organization (CSO) and the government partners where they are mining (?) * Their sorting process and the which went through many different grades that measured the 4 Cs: carat, color, clarity, and cuttability (?) 2. How has De Beers structured its relationship with the U.S. diamond dealers and the U.S. government
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«BLOOD DIAMOND» - Film review. Blood Diamond is an Oscar-nominated political war thriller movie from 2006 directed by Edward Zwick. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers and Stephen Collins. The movie is set during the Sierra Leone Civil War, from 1996 to 2001. We get introduced to the main characters, Danny Archer and Solomon Vandy, both living in Sierra Leone. Solomon gets kidnapped by the RUF (Revolutionary United Front). He got separated from
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ENGL 1157 05/05/2013 Blood Diamond I think, Blood Diamond could have been little shorter. While the film includes a number of political and sociological insights, the story is tepid and loses momentum as the storyline bogs down. The main character, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, has an effective arc that is believable because it does not force him to act contrary to his nature, but it takes a long time for Blood Diamond to get us to DiCaprio's moment of recognition. Pacing issues aside, this
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Synthetic Diamonds for Nanotechnology Diamonds may serve another purpose other than being fashionable ornaments. Scientists at the Ohio University have experimented how electrons flowed through diamonds. What they found was that electrons passing through diamond performed a magnetic effect wave, similar to the wave performed at sports games. Known as spin, this effect may have the capability of transmitting data through computer circuits with the use of synthetic diamond wiring. With characteristics
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