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    Magnetic Storm & Diamonds

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    Magnetic Storm This video is about the Earth’s magnetic force and its wavering. The molten iron in the earth creates the magnetic force around the earth. The magnetic force protects the earth‚ making it possible for life to exist on the planet‚ unlike other planets with weaker magnetic forces. Recently‚ though‚ scientists have discovered that the magnetic field seems to be faltering. The magnetic force starts near the South Pole and extends around the earth close to the North Pole and shields

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    Diamond and Supply Chain

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    Vonkel Enterprises have recently purchased Thembeka‚ a company that specializes in the sale and distribution of gold and diamond jewelry. This company designs‚ manufactures and markets fine jewelry throughout South Africa. It had previously been a family run business‚ and following the death of the founder and CEO‚ family members decided to sell the enterprise. Vonkel saw the potential for this business and purchased it‚ with intentions of improving supply chain performance. The domestic supply

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    The Diamond Necklace Script

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    SCENE 1: House Narrator: A women named Mathilde Loisel suffered eternally‚ feeling her born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries. She was distressed at the poverty of her dwelling‚ at the bareness of the walls‚ at the shabby chairs‚ the ugliness of the curtains. All those things‚ of which another woman of her rank would never even have been conscious‚ tortured her and made her angry and made her married a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction Monsieur Loisel. Mathilde: (while

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    | Africa: Her Blood Diamonds And Yellow stones | [Type the document subtitle] | | * Diamond mining in Africa Ever since the Kimberley diamond strike of 1868‚ South Africa has been a world leader in diamond production. The primary South African sources of diamonds‚ including seven large diamond mines around the country‚ are controlled by the De Beers Consolidated Mines Company. In 2003‚ De Beers’s operations accounted for 94% of the nation’s total diamond output of 11‚900

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    Dirt to Distribution: The Diamond Purchasing Process and its Flaws Gregory Greenberg SCM 302 Sullivan University Fall 2013 Abstract: The diamond industry has often time been at the center of controversy due to the way that diamonds are excavated‚ refined and purchased. The term “blood diamond” is often applied to those stones which are mined in area’s of Africa that suffer from civil war due almost entirely to bloodshed over diamond mine rights. In response the diamond industry enacted the Kimberley

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    month‚ such as my favorite fries and sausage. Gerald Diamond

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    Radiological Weapons as Means of Attack Anthony H. Cordesman Radiological weapons are generally felt to be suitable largely for terror‚ political‚ and area denial purposes‚ rather than mass killings. Unlike nuclear weapons‚ they spread radioactive material contaminating personnel‚ equipment‚ facilities‚ and terrain. The radioactive material acts as a toxic chemical to which exposure eventually proves harmful or fatal. Radiation is energy that comes from a source and travels through some material

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    A Diamond Personality - 2

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    his personal values like Rodriguez being an entrepreneur and an optimistic individual. Another factor would be that Rodriguez bettered himself by attending community college receiving his diamonds grading certificate shortly after graduation. Working at a local jewelry store‚ Rodriguez gained knowledge of diamonds and used that information to open his own business acting as a connection point between buyers and sellers over the internet. Along with all the characteristics Rodriguez possesses‚ Rodriguez

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    compare them‚ we can put on mind the The Diamond & Water Paradox‚ which was highly discussed in 18th & 19th century‚ and finaly resolved by Alfred Marshall and Adam Smith. The paradox is magically explained with an understanding of marginal utility and total utility. People are willing to pay a higher price for goods with greater marginal utility. As such‚ water which is plentiful has enormous total utility‚ but a low price because of a low marginal utility. Diamonds‚ however‚ have less total utility because

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    Weber V. Diamond

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    Jared Diamond and Max Weber both are trying to answer the same question. How did the west become so dominate? Even though they both ask the same question they have very different theories as to how this came about. Weber has a very straight forward religious/cultural view on his theory whereas; diamond believes it all started with geography which lead to economic development. Weber’s argument is that capitalism flourished when the protestant (particularly Calvinism) ethic encouraged large numbers

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