The Sapphires Essay

People so often wonder what happens to us when we die, but all humankind can do is speculate. Mother used to tell me that when people we love die, they go to heaven. They are never truly away from us and soon we will see them again. I remember sitting alone on a creaky fold-out chair at Father's funeral looking around at the tear stained faces. I couldn't help but wonder: if we really believe this is true, then why do we cry when they die? Was there something inside us that always knew that they…

made the entire supply chain rigid and slow in responding to changes in market dynamics. Apple’s strong arming tactics with respect to suppliers sets a bad precedent for other suppliers. The recent contract failure between Apple and GTAT for the sapphire screens supply in which Apple quoted low price for the glasses and forced GTAT to opt for bankruptcy than associating with Apple. This incidence is a curious case of Apple’s failure in maintaining supplier relationship which is generally…

Looking into the eyes of the beast I thought that I might die from fear alone, for I had never witnessed such a horrendous sight. On the horse sat a figure in black with the head of a bore and body of a man. I fell onto the ground in a pile of mud and sat there in my own piss, anticipating the final blow. As the creature raised its axe to strike, it abruptly paused as the night became darker with a spray of blood and the beast toppled over its horse. When its body hit the ground, the bore’s…

balance. Tomatoes or red peppers help with an under-balance and blueberries help an overstimulated root chakra. 4 Wear or carry with you gemstones of the color you need for balance. Red stones include garnet or rubies, while blue stones could be sapphire or aquamarine. 5 Invoke the goddess Venus to help balance you out. She is the Roman goddess of love, and she can be called upon by simply focusing calmly on her and your root chakra and asking for balance. Have with you her symbols, such…

Chapter One A web of city lights spreads out thousands of feet below, the top of the Burj Khalifa offering an unhindered view of Dubai. I can see it for all it’s worth; the life it breathes into the world, the people it nourishes…and I think of how I cannot be a part of it. The dry fingers of a desert wind beckon for me to cross over the balcony ledge into nothing, but I ignore its invitation for the moment, taking my time to contemplate the inevitable future that awaits me. There is a darkness…

Making Connections ‘Music’ and ‘dance’, while simple words, hold a world of significance to almost every culture across the globe. It is through the actions of these two elements that people are brought together in times of triumph, grievance, celebrations, and religious gatherings. Music and dance have a way of making you forget the busyness and stresses of life and find happiness and serenity in the present day. And regardless, whether music and dance are performed for an audience or done in…

In Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred, she illustrates the power white people designed to suppress black people in America. She uses characters, setting, and time to help the reader establish a better understanding of the racial injustice. Butlers makes it clear in her novel that by the establishment of a racial hierarchy and the even further marginalization of black women, which not only affected slaves but is still affecting African Americans into the modern era. The novel begins with the main…

Political commentator, author, and professor, Melissa Harris-Perry combines her academic perspective with seemingly universal life lessons of black womanhood, to present Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Woman in America. Sister Citizen follows in the footsteps of her first work, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, to discuss the political socialization of African Americans. This time with a concentration on the interplay of the lives of African…

Technology development has presented challenges and opportunities to managers. Nokia Corporation and Apple Inc., both companies involved in the mobile phones manufacturing, have been showing examples of ineffective and effective management, respectively. Nokia, a historical leader on mobile phones manufacturing, has lost its market share mainly to Apple. Nokia’s fail and Apple’s success can be analysed considering Fayol’s principles of management – planning, leading, controlling and organising…

The Connection between Greenland and Denmark. Greenland was one amongst the three constituent countries of the Kingdom of Denmark known as Danish Realm. The three countries that make up former Danish Realm are Faroe Islands, Greenland and Denmark. Historically, Greenland was tied with Denmark after the unitary state Denmark-Norway was dissolved in 1814, Greenland remained under Danish colonial empire however colonial status ceased in 1953. In 1721 modern colonization began with the Norwegian-…