Blood Diamonds: The Real Cost of Diamonds Sierra Leone is blessed with some of the world’s richest resources such as titanium‚ gold‚ and diamonds. Despite these rich resources‚ Sierra Leone ranked last on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index in 2001‚ making Sierra Leone the poorest country in the world at that time. (Renner‚ 2002‚ p. 22) So how can a country so rich in resources be so poor? Sierra Leone’s extreme poverty level is caused by the diamonds they mine and
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INTRODUCTION Diamond Chemicals a major global competitor in the chemical industry and a leading producer of polypropylene. In 2001 the Corporation was facing losses in earnings and the slowdown of the global economy. The Earning per Share (EPS) had fallen by 50% from 1999 to 2000. The controller of the plant in Merseyside proposed a project of £9 million to renovate and rationalize the polypropylene production line at the plant to compensate for deferred maintenance and to exploit opportunities
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Welcome to Diamond city. As your tour guide‚ I will be giving you the basic knowledge about diamonds; the process‚ careers‚ methods to promote the sales of diamonds and etc. at a diamond mine‚ you usually find small dirty gray stones that are so dense that they show the speed of light but you can also find rough diamonds that are cold to the touch but are drawing heat right from your fingers. Diamonds can be used as jewellery‚ as you may have known‚ but also for industrial purposes. The Diamond Industry
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Would you buy a Blood Diamond? Stylistic Analysis Film 1010-200 July 14‚ 2011 The movie Blood Diamond is an action/adventure and drama movie. It was shot all around Mozambique to give off the scenery of Sierra Leone. The movie shows different villages in different scenarios‚ with rich natural colors like brown‚ green‚ red etc. The cities are portrayed as hectic and intimidating‚ dirty and poor. The actors in the movie are dressed in neutral colored clothes which are dirty and torn. The clothes
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Walmart is an U.S. multinational retail corporation that operates discount outlets‚ supercenters‚ and warehouse clubs. Walmart has been long known for women’s discrimination‚ however‚ in 2011‚ a class action lawsuit‚ Walmart Stores‚ Inc. v. Dukes‚ exposed its company-wide discriminatory practices and policies. Although the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Walmart‚ Walmart still invested heavily on improving its image with women then showcased these improvements in its annual report to counter the
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Conflict Diamonds Effect on Security & Peace in Africa | International Relations | | | 5/21/2012 | Asad Malik Hassan Sarfraz Khan Introduction Throughout the history‚ for one reason or another mankind has been fighting wars. Human being has been selfish when it comes to fulfilling his own desires. Men fought for the basic individual needs like food and then it was countries which started fighting to fulfill their people needs and wants. This is why Natural Resources like Diamond‚ Oil
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activities that a firm operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver a valuable product or service for the market. Value Created and Captured – Cost of Creating that Value = Margin 2 Distinct Sets of Activities 5 Primary Activitie s & 4 Support Activitie Primary Activities(5) Inbound Logistics- receiving‚ storing incoming goods Operations- value creating activities that transform the inputs into the final product. Outbound Logistics- activities is required to get the finished
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Blood Diamond Reaction Paper One of the greatest ills‚ committed by the United States on the African people‚ was the exploitation of African labor. The slave trade became the most “successful” African commodity until the middle of the 1800’s‚ when westerner’s began to exploit other natural resources of the continent. The expansion of capital in Africa enabled the US and Europe to fund both the scientific and industrial revolutions. In addition‚ when Apartheid began in 1948‚ after WWII to
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Evaluating CSR of Walmart Walmart founded by Sam Walton in 1962 is a multinational retail corporation‚ with the opening of the first Walmart discount store in Rogers‚ Arkansas (US). As the nation’s largest retailer and second largest corporation‚ Walmart has the significant influences on the retail world. It offers to its customers a one-stop shopping experience because it has a full offering of groceries and general merchandise in a single store. Now Walmart consists of over 110‚000 stores and
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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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