the programme finished???? it doesnt seem to be on anymore Danny Kilborn When does Rough Diamond return to my TV Yvonne Smedley Great program‚ looked forward to it on a Sunday evening but what’s happened to it! Lil I loved this series and was very disappointed when it abrubtly stopped. surely edpisode six could not have been the last ? Are they makeing more ? I hope so. The Elder Family We all enjoyed watching this series - good family entertainment on a Sunday evening: Perfect!
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Love can be sudden attraction that could pull people in‚ even when they know this love will not last and is forbidden. Marie Curie was a passionate physicist and chemist who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity‚ as she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her husband was also an instructor at the school of physics and chemistry; it was their mutual interest in natural sciences that drew them together. However only after eleven years of marriage‚ Pierre was killed in a
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Conflict diamonds & Child soldiers: A Love story By That guy Africa: a land of shadows and light. A continent where the Four Horse Men thrive. Most notably in particular‚ war. War has plagued Africa for ages upon ages; no corner of the mighty content can escape its influence. Hostages taken off the coast of Somalia‚ to blood diamond mine in South Africa. Is there a solution for these conflicts? Should foreign aid be provided? Or should military action be taken imminently? To truly understand
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The War to End All Wars‚ a very misleading name‚ considering the amount of people against each other. Those countries did not fight separately‚ they were well allied. Alliances are unions formed for mutual benefit‚ associations made between countries‚ organizations‚ or individuals. While many alliances were made public and other countries knew who stood behind who‚ some were secret affairs. Certain alliances in World War One were an important cause of expanded conflict between nations. Many people
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Diamond Industry. De Beers. In the beginning of 1870s‚ the Afrikaner brothers‚ J. N. de Beer and D. A. de Beer discovered diamonds on their farm and unable to deal with the effort of protecting the farm from the diamond seekers‚ they sold the land to the diamond traders. Today‚ the name De Beers represents the world’s largest diamond company‚ which has a presence in 25 countries. The powerful and productive epoch of diamonds began with the establishment of this company. Who knows what role a
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Background/history What is a conflict diamond? Diamonds from peace countries which are most likely third world countries‚ are controlled by the government. Its industry monitors the imports to avoid conflict diamonds to be imported to their country (Natural Resources Canada: The Canadian Diamond Industry). Diamonds that are imported from conflict countries are called blood diamond or conflict diamonds because they are retrieved from war zone and traded in the black market to fund rebel fighters
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Diamond Mines in South Africa TEAM D Eugene Patton‚ James Pruitt‚ John Morawa‚ Kenneth Miller‚ Nicholas Nauroth‚ and Shemika McWilliams DeVry University Online April 13‚ 2011 Diamond Mines in South Africa South Africa’s Culture‚ Government‚ Economy‚ and religion of South Africa (Shemika McWilliams) Diamond mining in South Africa is the main force behind the country’s economy but this has not always been the case. South Africa’s large diamond mining industry started with the discovery of
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Whitney Gregory Dr. Alexander Third Year Writing 7 May 2010 Natural Disasters: Why Haven’t We Learned From Them Yet? George Santayan‚ a famous Spanish-American philosopher‚ once said‚ “Everything is life is lyrical in its ideal essence‚ tragic in its fate and comic in its existence‚” (“Quotable Quote” 1). This too can be said about natural disasters in today’s time. A natural disaster is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as‚ “any form of nature that has catastrophic consequence‚ such as an avalanche
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enormous control that people have on the health of the earth has become a major problem. It is the duty the people of every nation to decide on whether they choose to continue with their ways and watch the world crash before their eyes or to do something to prevent the end from coming. “Perhaps the World Ends Here”‚ by Joy Harjo‚ exemplifies the relationship between her people‚ the Native Americans‚ and the earth. Her poem shows how all societies need the “gifts of earth” (Harjo 548) to survive and yet they
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Blood Diamond directed by Edward Zwick some of the key ideas are: What is valuable and important‚ the devastation of war and exploitation of people and resources. These key ideas in the film help viewers to understand the film better. The key idea of what is valuable is an important one in the film. The three main characters Maddy‚ Danny and Solomon all have something different that is valuable to them. Maddy is a journalist who travels around the world in search of a good story. She ends up in
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