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    Diamond Foods

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    Diamond Foods 1. How did weaknesses in Diamond Foods’ internal controls contribute to the accounting scandal? The audit committee of Diamond’s board was conducting an investigation of Diamond’s accounting for certain crop payments to walnut growers. This is where the scandal sort of took off. Filings done to approve the accounting practices were signed off by the companies CEO and CFO. Then there was an independent audit committee who was assigned to probe the company’s practices. The committee

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    Truman’s Dilemma The decision to use the atom bomb posed several significant moral dilemmas for President Harry S. Truman‚ among these were attacking without warning at Pearl Harbor‚ against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war‚ to shorten the agony of the war‚ and to end the war all together. “Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ on December 7‚ 1941. The attack severely damaged the American fleet and prevented

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    Diamond Chip

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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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    Blood Diamond

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    truly deserves this title is Blood Diamond. In Blood Diamond the director Edward Zwick was very smart when strategizing how each and every scene would play out in the film. He made thorough decisions on which moves each character should make and how the interactions among them would be in each scene. All of this planning was done for the sake of clearly understanding the story. The transitions in the film also easily made you feel as if you are part of the diamond trade itself. Piece by piece Zwick

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    Blood Diamonds

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    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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    Jared Diamond

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    Jared Diamond ​Jared Diamond was a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles. He was a biologist by training‚ and a specialist in human physiology. But his real passion has always been the study of birds. He began watching the birds when he was about seven years old in the United States. He arrived in New Guinea at the age of 26 and he felt that it was love at first sight. Diamond started to make regular trips to New Guinea and ever since‚ he decides to be the leading expert on the bird life of the island

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    De Beers is currently being faced with some new challenges that are making it necessary for us to consider a change in the way we do business. With recent turmoil in Western Africa‚ where illicit diamonds are beginning to come from war torn villages‚ and other sources of diamonds being found in Russia and Australia‚ it is clear that we need to begin to move into the U.S. market. However‚ legally‚ De Beers is in violation of the U.S. antitrust laws and is therefore being prohibited from selling directly

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    Diamond Plan

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    of Rough Diamonds in Sierra Leone “CREATING A FUTURE – GIVING NEW MEANING TO SUSTAINABILITY IN MINING” BUSINESS PLAN Page 1 Sierra Credit Repository Xchange (SCRX) Sierra Leone Limited Business Plan List of Contents OPENING STATEMENTS PAGE 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 INTRODUCTION 3 Legal Structure of SCRX 4 Why Diamonds? 4 History of Sierra Leone Diamonds 4 Diamond Market 6 The Government Role 6 Historical Context of the Diamond Region and

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    Blood Diamonds

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    Ryan A. Barker Civic & Cultural Literacy I Mr. Rand 12-14-12 Blood Diamond is a movie about the illegal diamond trade in West Africa‚ the Sierra Leone Civil War‚ and the personal story of a man named Solomon trying to find his son. Ty Burr wrote a review on this film and claims that he enjoyed it but there were some parts in which he said that it was just like any other movie. I agree with Burr on many of his points about the film‚ that it was a very entertaining movie but it did not stand

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    Blood Diamond

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    Movie Analysis I. Description of Characters: 1. Danny Archer – The American who helped Solomon in finding his Family; He is also addicted in diamonds that’s why he help Solomon for him to have the diamond; Smuggler of diamonds. 2. Solomon Vandy – An African who were separated from his family when the rebels caught him; He has a great love for his family that’s why he’s finding them; a fisherman sierra leone. 3. Maddy Bowen – The magazine writer who helped Danny and Solomon to get the

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