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    Ryan Maierle/Global 2H/Guns‚ Germs and Steel What is “Yali’s question”? “Yali’s question” is “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (Diamond 14). By “cargo‚” Yali is referring to wealth and technology‚ which leads to power and dominance. Essentially‚ Yali wants to know why was there is such a disparity between the lifestyle of the average New Guinean versus the average European or American? In other

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    NYC. Imagine a place full of diamonds‚ pearls‚ jewelry and you are standing at the midst of it. A place where you could break the boundaries of diamonds and jewelries free from the rest of your experiences. To let your eye savor each moment staring at the beautiful stones‚ shapes and designs in wonder. Well‚ this wonder land actually exists and famous by the name of jewelry district NYC. Here the inhabitants are the top diamond merchants as well as tourists‚ diamond hunters visiting from various

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    Blue Nile Inc.; Case Analyst Blue Nile was founded in 1999 and today‚ it is one of the largest online retailers of diamonds. In addition to selling diamonds‚ it also offers platinum‚ gold‚ peral‚ and sterling silver jewelry. It is headquartered in Seattle‚ Washington and it operates in 25 countries‚ offering products through its United States‚ Canada and the United Kingdom Websites. The Company is public traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange and has received several rewards for its service price

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    used proceeds from sales of illegitimate diamonds to fund their operations. In Angola‚ UNITA used the illegitimate trade of diamonds to fund itself. This resulted in sanctions being placed upon Angola by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in July 1998. The world became aware that “conflict diamonds” were being used fund and sustain armed rebel forces in various African countries. Establishment of the KPCS A meeting of Southern African diamond-producing states was held in Kimberley in

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    for the whole bushel. Fact Number Three It costs five times more money to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one. Before you go out investing hundreds or even thousands of dollars chasing after new clients‚ think about the acres of diamonds in your own back yard. The people that you’ve done business with previously thought enough of you at some point to buy from you. Why not go back and re-cultivate that relationship? It will cost you one-fifth of the cost of finding a new client

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    county name state abbreviation number of acres devoted to farms‚ 1992 number of acres devoted to farms‚ 1987 number of acres devoted to farms‚ 1982 number of farms‚ 1992 number of farms‚ 1987 number of farms‚ 1982 number of farms with 1000 acres or more‚ 1992 number of farms with 1000 acres or more‚ 1987 number of farms with 1000 acres or more‚ 1982 number of farms with 9 acres or fewer‚ 1992 number of farms with 9 acres or fewer‚ 1987 number of farms with 9 acres or fewer‚ 1982 S = south‚ W = west‚ NC

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    sapphires were perfected (Schumann‚ 243). Synthetic diamonds have always been a sought after item‚ mainly because of their price and rarity. However‚ their price and scarcity are totally artificial. The diamond seller DeBeers

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    continued without profits from diamond sales‚ which funded the murderous Revolutionary United Front (RUF). For this reason‚ in early July 2000‚ the United Nations (U.N.) imposed an 18-month ban on diamonds imported from that west African country. A week later‚ De Beers‚ the world’s largest diamond seller‚ announced a number of changes in its practices‚ and a week after that‚ an international gathering of the diamond industry called for measures to reduce traffic in "blood diamonds". uring the following

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    Tiffany&co can be seen in every advertising video or picture‚ and even in their products. The topic is very interesting in two aspects: First of all‚ it is very rich of symbols. As mentioned‚ they can be seen in the jewelry. For example‚ a diamond heart pendant. The heart has long been used as a symbol relevant to the mental‚ emotional‚ moral‚ and in the past also as a symbol of intellectual core in man. As widely believed that the heart is the core of the human mind‚ the word "heart" is still

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    genetically superior to other cultures such as the Africans‚ the Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians. While one man‚ Prof. Jared Diamond argues that it was because of environmental conditions and geographical placement that some peoples were able to advance further and faster than another. But how credible is his theory. Two main weaknesses in Diamond ’s theory are:-Farming-GoodsDiamond argues that it is through farming that so many cultures advanced quickly and efficiently. The cultures

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