“Out of Eden” is the first episode which starts off the Guns, Germs, and Steel documentary. This episode kicks off in a country called Papua New Guinea due to the major impact that it had toward Jared Diamond’s findings. In New Guinea, Jared Diamond became inspired to understand why some societies are not as advanced as others. This question has never really entered my mind until I watched this documentary and learned more about Jared’s well thought out theories. In this episode, hunter-gathering, farming, and animal domestication are all examined in order to fully grasp the advancement of cultures.…
The documentary Inequality for All by Robert Reich talks about inequality in America and how it comes about as well as factors that cause it to occur. In order to fully understand inequality, the documentary thoroughly analyzes how it comes about as well as its effects on the population. Clear connections and patterns are shown and talked about by Reich as we see how and why inequality in America is rising in wealth, taxes, debt, income, and many other vital areas. For starters, inequality as a whole is caused by numerous factors. Globalization and technology are one of the main contributors.…
Title: Blood diamonds Author: Greg Campbell Text: Novel I have never been so disgusted in how the rebels can treat other human beings for the thought of getting wealthy of the stones of diamonds. Blood Diamonds written by Greg Campbell tell the insight of the story behind the blood diamonds.…
As I noted earlier, Why Nations Fail minces no words with respect to the geography and particularly Diamond’s argument. While Acemoglu and Robinson do admit that it “is a powerful approach to the puzzle on which he focuses,” they dismiss it offhand because it cannot be extended to explain “modern world inequality,” or regional/intracontinental disparities (52). It is here that they lose a huge opportunity by falling into fallacious reasoning. Geography played an initial roll — just because it might not substantially effect things now, doesn’t mean it didn’t have a hand in influencing how things came to be. Acemoglu and Robinson understand that Diamond is making an argument for why eurasia was where growth would arise — the questions of where within eurasia and when are not addressed.…
Blood Diamonds “Dig or Die” is a phrase often used when talking about our world 's most loved gem, the diamond. Many precious jewels are faceted with conflict. Blood diamonds, or conflict diamonds, are diamonds mined in war-torn countries by antigovernment groups (Blood Diamonds). These militias use the money to aid their cause. Wars fueled by these diamonds have taken over 3.7 million lives, in countries such as Zimbabwe, Angola, Congo and Liberia.…
Blood diamonds is film, produced by Edward Zwick, released in 2006 that shows the perspective and a first person view on the war in Sierra Leone. The war consist of the rebels and the government, the rebels own diamond camps that force slaves to pan any jewels in rivers. The rebels will invade villages and kill thousands to show their dominance, they will also kidnap young children to turn them into young soldiers. Big diamond corporations will secretly buy these diamonds for a lower price than if they do legally to earn a bigger profit. The diamonds sold in this manner are called blood diamonds for the fact that so much blood is shed to just sell the diamonds to the consumers.…
This is illustrated through the standard of living, gender differences,…
The main idea of this book is to provide context and understanding to the question evident in the book’s title, why are some nations so rich and why are some nations so poor? Although the author does not claim to have an answer to the question, Landes does a phenomenal job in aggregating the works of countless scholars to provide a cohesive framework based on four key ideas. These major points consist of: the ideals of the society, Technological innovation, economic resources and environmental favors, and cultural influence. Sources: David Landes uses an immensely extensive variety of resources for his book, whose bibliography spans over 65 pages ranging from academic articles in journals to newspaper articles from around the world. Landes…
Sierra leone is a very poor country but it has a large amount of diamonds and these diamond should have brought wealth to the country and its people. Instead these diamond were used to fuel a war starting in 1991 to 2001.The people during the blood diamond civil war in sierra leone were used as slave by the R.U.F to mine diamonds and were put through very poor living conditions. This is similar to Wiesel 's experiences in the holocaust in night because he was put into a work camp and was also put through poor living conditions. This is also different because the people in the blood diamond were not forced to work or killed because of their beliefs or how they looked or acted. This war was between a rebel group called the R.U.F a group of rebels and the government of Sierra leone.…
The conflict diamonds started to be present and problematic in Sierra Leone as soon as DeBeers mining company took control of all diamond prospects throughout this region. Although DeBeers was keeping a moderate watch on the trading and actions being taken through it, traders from Lebanon (bordered by Syria and Israel to the south) were able to easily smuggle and mine diamonds out through the company. Later towards the 1950s, countries, such as Sierra Leone, had to give up the chance of regulating the illicit diamond industry, thus having to warn owners of the mines to provide their own security measures for the mines and land they owned. The issue wasn’t justly political or economic until Sierra Leone gained its independence in 1961, letting…
If someone came up to you and said that they’d pay you $100 to give up your current lifestyle and return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, would you do it? What about for $1,000? Would you still do it for no money at all, but with the knowledge that it would give you a better life? I would. My family would think me to be crazy.…
Black Diamond 5 Line Review Ranking as the third in series of classic slot games, Black Diamond 5 Line offers the most paylines of all Black Diamond titles, except for the 25-payline “special release”. The 5-payline version we 're reviewing today is directly in the vein of its predecessors Black Diamond and Black Diamond 3 Line. Carrying the Black Diamond tag, it is clear that players around the globe expect plenty from this game, but does it shine bright like a diamond as the name suggests? A player 's best friend The theme, as in all of the Black Diamond series, revolves around gold and gems.…
As Andersen described “this exploitation in turn, keeps them from developing and perpetuates their poverty.” (208) Social inequality also involves race. Andersen argues in chapter nine that most of the poor nation involves the people of color and the wealthy nation involves white. This is also determined as social discrimination because the people of color are put away, and are not recognized for their potential. If the wealthy nation was helping equally the poor nations, many countries will leave any thought of hunger, lack of job, infant mortality, lack of education, and so on.…
There is massive inequality in the world, and it is also…
Global inequality not only results in impeding the growth of the economy but also in increasing the overall level of poverty leading to an overall social deterioration. Global inequality causes severe growth in the social instability of a country, which in turn stands in the way of sustainable social development. Global inequalities act as an encumbrance in poverty reduction.…