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    Robert Motherwell

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    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…

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    The Walton Estate Analysis

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    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…

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    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…

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    The History Of Diamonds

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    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…

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    identified by looking at the value and prices of their products and ethical standards. Campbell reveals, “The diamonds are eventually sold to customers at up to ten times the price paid from them De Beers, which,of course can be up to a hundred times the price paid for them at the source” (Campbell 112). The De Beers Group is excessively overpricing a stone that we are made to believe is explicitly rare and priceless. Their extreme desire for more money is shown through their disproportionate…

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    New Media In the latter half of the 1800s and moving forward into the twentieth century, new forms of media began to spring up, which drastically changed the way art was created and produced. The invention of the camera and motion pictures evolved art in a way that the question of which art forms should really be considered art was asked. In an article written by Domenica Quaranta, she brings up this question and provides some analysis. Her biggest point states that while a media may be new…

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    The theory of Utilitarianism (a teleological system) is founded on the works of Jeremey Bentham and John Stuart Mill. In Utilitarianism () Mills argues for a normative model of ethics contending that the basis of morals is utility, or that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness”. Happiness is defined as the pleasure in the absence of pain while unhappiness is defined as pain in the lack of pleasure. (Utilitarianism book). An action that increases…

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    This paper corresponds to case study of DeBeers’s Diamond Dilemma in which I have performed PESTEL and Five Forces Analysis of DeBeers’s Diamond. DeBeers has two aims; to be the top company of diamond seller and make diamond available for everyone in the market. In the first part I’ve executed PESTEL Analysis on the DeBeers prevailing confronting position and focused on the significant troubles that DeBeers needs to ascertain its resolution. PESTEL analysis refers to a framework that marketers…

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    The Diamond Industry Essay

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    The diamond industry employs 38,000 people, directly in Southern Africa, the main industrial location for diamonds). This employment provides shelter, food and clean water for people working in the mines. In South Africa, a rough 28,000 people are employed for cutting, mining, valuing, polishing, jewelry manufacturing, and retail. These few job opportunities open doors for workers to live under a roof, to get their kids educated, to obtain appropriate health care and much more. "We know that…

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    different amounts of time for each individual; the Creature stays in this stage for a long time as he develops control over more things. When he discovers the De Lacy family, he begins to exert this authority. He discovers their need for firewood, and “brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days” (Shelley 74). When the young De Lacy girl finds the wood, “she uttered some words in a loud voice, and the youth joined her, who also expressed surprise” (Shelley 74). The…

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