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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 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…

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…

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…

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…