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Once we all piled in the van, we had to stop at McDonald’s for food. When we got done eating, we started on our way to Des Moines. About half way there, some of us girl started to get a little tired. Some fell asleep in their seats, and some fell asleep on the floor of the van. I was one of those girls. When we got to Des Moines, we had to go check into our hotel. We had to share the whole hotel with West Lyon. When morning arrived, we all headed down to the lobby for…

De Beers focuses on building brand Nothing is forever in business, not even diamonds. Ask De Beers, which runs the world 's diamond cartel. The London-based company, actually De Beers/Centernary, has developed and inflated the connection between diamonds and romance -- a link that goes back only to the 19th century. Its highly effective advertising slogan, "Diamonds are forever," was established in 1948 and is still going strong. "De Beers ' operating strategy has been pure and simple," says…

Gold In Utopia Every country in the world recognizes gold as a very valuable metal that people desire. The value of gold is immense because it is malleable and ductile, it is used in many industries, and it has had a high value since ancient times. Although most people perceive gold as an extremely treasured item, Thomas More presents a vastly different perception of gold in the book Utopia. Thomas More was a philosopher in England and the advisor of King Henry VIII but was killed after not…

Introduction: De Beers is an association of companies that dominate any things related to diamond such us diamond trading, diamond mining, diamond shops and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company was established in 1888 by British businessman Cecil Rhodes and funded by London-based N M Rothschild & Sons bank and the South African diamond magnate Alfred Beit. They have many places for mining like Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Canada.However; there was a big debate about some…

Commodification is the process by which material objects are turned into marketable goods with monetary value based on equivalent commodities. In relation, the Marx idea of commodity fetishism is related to this by which all value is derived from an abstract unknowable meaning, and the original meaning or use is absolutely gone. Commodification is evident Ed Kienholz’s watercolor artworks. In exchange for a service or material possession, he would offer a watercolor painting as payment. He was…

Product Description for Sunshine Morgan Silver Round Although the original Morgan Silver Dollar is highly sought after, finding those coins in good condition has become a frustrating and expensive ordeal for collectors and investors alike. These Morgan Silver rounds minted by the Sunshine Mint offer a cheaper alternative to the original coins by allowing you to own a memorable piece of American history while obtaining a significant amount of pure Silver in the process. Sunshine Minting Inc. is…

The beautifully wise words of an American painter, Robert Motherwell, could not have described abstract art any better I strongly believe. He intricately and sophisticatedly describes the breath-taking style of abstract art as follows, “The function of abstraction is to get rid of a lot of reality. You start with as much richness as you want, and subtract, and then you arrive at the residue of essences that you’re interested in.” This description really allows the reader to visualize the artist…

The Walton Estate is a thousand acre piece of land owned by the illusive Thomas Walton; Mr. Walton is a European man in his late twenties, most women, myself included opps I just broke the third person narrator oh well I plead postmodernism, would consider him to be a hansom man; he is 6’1”, light brown hair styled in an effortless messy bedhead, fit, six pack if you know what I mean, and is notoriously single. Thomas is known for being the sole inheritor of his father's estate and his…

Annotated Bibliography Falls, Susan. "Picturing blood diamonds." Critical Arts 25.3 (2011): 441+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 22 Apr. 2015. Susan Falls, a Ph.D. and Anthropology Professor, in her article “Picturing Blood Diamonds” (2011), implies that modern day American citizens and even foreign countries are hidden from the real truth of diamonds, by expressing the main topic and point of this article, showing that flashy billboards and magazines have hidden where the source…

discovering the actual diamond producing pipe. A lot of Kimberly pipes found around the area included the largest pipes found on land by two unsuspecting farmers. The two farmers were brothers, and their names were “De Beers”. A syndicate discovered the largest pipes and brought the De beers brothers out and paid some money for the brothers around sixty-three hundred pounds, which was a large amount in that time for the farmers and a wonderful…