Blood Diamonds: The Conflict in Sierra Leone History of Diamonds: The name "diamond" comes from the Greek word‚ "adamas" meaning unconquerable. Fittingly diamonds are made of pure carbon‚ and diamonds are the hardest natural substance known to man.[1][1] Diamonds have long been a sign of wealth and fortune. Kings and queens have worn these forms of concentrated carbon and even more countless millions people over time have lusted after them. These gems can be transparent‚ truculent white
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Ryan Conde QU301 Skyers Blood Diamonds Conflict diamonds are most commonly found in Africa‚ and are mined by slaves. The diamonds mined in this area were coined “blood diamonds” because enabled violence and destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives. I believe that as a global community we allowed‚ and sometimes encouraged the trade of conflict diamonds. Conflict diamonds derived from war zones and were sold to fuel insurgencies and guerilla groups. The lack of care was especially apparent
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1. Explain Porter’s Diamond Porter introduced group of interconnected firms‚ suppliers‚ related industries‚ institutions. Competitive advantage of nations have been the outcome of four interlinked advanced factors and activities: these interrelated links Factors for Competitive Advantage for the countries or regions in Porter’s Diamond are as follows: 1 Factor conditions - such as skilled labor‚ land‚ natural resources‚ capital and infrastructure. Porter argues that the "key" factors
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Five Forces Analysis Threat of New Entry There are many companies manufacturing and selling office products at an international level. New entrants can find it easy to enter and establish their position in the market by basing their strategy on low cost. The market offers growth opportunities to new entrants as well indicating low entry barriers for the firms wanting to enter into the area of office products. Therefore it can be stated that Staples Inc is operating in an industry where the threat
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Industry Analysis Diamond Industry (Gem Based diamonds) The Diamond industry is essentially broken up into 3 segments: 1. Industrial Diamonds—natural and synthetic diamonds that are used in a wide range of manufacturing processes for their physical properties. 2. Jewelry Diamonds—rough diamonds cut for use as gemstones in jewelry. 3. Investment Diamonds—high-quality large gemstones‚ often with special characteristics‚ purchased for investment. The Jewelry and Investment segments together
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“What can I do to help?” Throughout my life I have asked this question many times. As a child watching my father interact with patients‚ as a Marine serving in a war torn country‚ and even now as a college student looking toward the future I ask how I can help. From a very early age‚ I remember looking up to my father in his optometry practice. From about the age of 8‚ I knew I wanted to help people like he did. I remember how he could comfort a patient by listening to what they had to say. It
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INTRODUCTION Electronics without silicon is unbelievable‚ but it will come true with the evolution of Diamond or Carbon chip. Now a day we are using silicon for the manufacturing of Electronic Chip’s. It has many disadvantages when it is used in power electronic applications‚ such as bulk in size‚ slow operating speed etc. Carbon‚ Silicon and Germanium are belonging to the same group in the periodic table. They have four valance electrons in their outer shell. Pure Silicon and Germanium are semiconductors
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For centuries‚ Taiwan has been ruled by alien regimes. Modern Taiwanese history is a chronicle of the Taiwanese’ struggles against oppression and fight for independent survival. Since 1945‚ Taiwan under the Kuomintang (KMT) regime has been subject to the threat of China’s invasion. Even though recently the tensions across the Straits of Taiwan has loosened gradually‚ to Taiwanese‚ the unification policy stressed by both the KMT regime and the Chinese government still poses a grave danger of
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Can Science Explain Everything? There are many facts today that are known to be true that science hasn’t been able to account for. Scientists are still very active in their search to prove some of the puzzling questions that remain unanswered. In Elliot Sober’s work‚ Can Science Explain Everything‚ he addresses that controversial question. Sober thesis claims to prove that when science attempts to explain events‚ and does so by describing its causes‚ it will never find answers to global why-questions
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Data on the "competitiveness of nations" can be found on www.imd.ch/wcy/ranking/. This website provides a ranking on a variety of criteria for 49 countries. How might Porter’s diamond of national advantage help to explain the rankings for some of thes countries for certain industries that interest you? According to Porter‚ a nation attains a competitive advantage if its firms are competitive. Firms become competitive through innovation. Innovation can include technical improvements to the product
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