life, as well as, the historical events surrounding the East Kimberly. The East Kimberly region of Western Australia has been depict as a place of ‘grinding poverty, violence and racist exclusion in which so many Aboriginal people in the east Kimberley live, and yet at the same time through art it communicate the beauty and grandeur of their lives. ‘For those trying to communicate through art with the issue of death, harsh, pain and even compassion, were seen as necessary to maintain memories
comes from the Greek word, "adamas" meaning unconquerable. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was established in 2003 to prevent conflict diamonds, any diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance anti-government activities, from entering the diamond market (“The Kimberley Process”). As blood diamonds continue to enter the market and counties and NGO’s alike leave, questions are raised as to whether or not the Kimberley Process works and if it should be revised. By stopping the trade
Political Correctness has Gone Too Far The “Politically Correct” movement’s purpose is to bring historically condescending terms, offensive music and art, and controversial educational content to an end and replace them with more positive and less-offending references. Offensive and demoralizing efforts are wrong, but the censorship and deletion of words and phrases that do not contain the intention to demoralize are taking political correctness too far. Politically correct (or “PC”) antics
The good days were good. By God were they good. He would awake to a weight and a warmth on his chest, to soft squeaky breathing and arms wrapped around him, or fingers laced together. The day would be golden and bright, filled with laughter and plans that, while devious, brought joy. The eyes that sought his would be smiling, crinkles appearing near their outer most edges. The kisses that followed were almost sweet and the touches almost tender. And on these days the concerns of the world and its
Sierra Leone, a small country located in west Africa, has recently dropped its population from 4.4 million to 2 million because of a massive war that had struck quite swiftly. This war had been a great tragedy to those who were in Sierra Leone at the time for they were innocent and had no do of wrong. To dig to the core, you would find that this war was primarily caused by the diamonds in the country. In efforts to preventing such a tremble in this or any other country again, many solutions to this
A beautiful precious diamond can last forever, but what most people do not know is that a majority of our diamonds come from Africa. The civil wars in Africa over diamonds began around 1961 and ended in 2003. Conflict diamonds were rampant and it would be difficult to say if any jewelry sold prior to 2003 was conflict free. Conflict diamonds are diamonds that have been mined and were controlled by African rebels. The rebels would use the profits from selling conflict diamonds to fund illegal activity
of state for human rights commented that it was Angola’s long civil war to blame for creating the climate of abuse causing the soldiers to use such violent ways of preventing the civilians from mining the illegal diamonds. This issue has put the Kimberley Process into its worst problem in its short history. It was praised for its pledge to human rights but it is said that it doesn’t take into consideration the abuses of human rights in diamond territory that is controlled by the governments.
In late 2008, the world economy seemingly grinded to a halt. Wall Street, unable to reconcile the liquidity crisis and financial losses that stemmed from its bad bets on mortgage backed securities, turned to the United States government for help. What resulted was the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”), the largest government bailout in the history of the United States. After the dust settled and Wall Street, with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, managed to avert a global
It’s hard to imagine that a mineral could be fueling wars and funding corrupt governments. This mineral can be smuggled undetected across countries in a coat pocket, then be sold for vast amounts of money. This mineral is used in power tools, parts of x-ray machines, and microchips but mostly jewelry. Once considered the ultimate symbol of love, the diamond has a darker story. "Blood" diamonds or "conflict" diamonds are those mined, polished, or traded in areas of the world where the rule of
When one is on the other side of the earth, there is only so much information that a person could obtain. This was a great enough reason for the author, Greg Campbell, of "Blood Diamonds" to expose what all eyes are not seeing and what many are blind to in this world. Campbell went out to research the tracks and origins of a very valuable stone known as the diamond. In doing so, he urges to research the origins and life of this precious rock. He goes about researching just exactly how the life of
government-run Kimberly Process, named for a city in Africa, was launched to stop the trade of conflict diamonds, but had limited success in preventing villagers from working the mines (Kimberley 1). It is obvious that conflict diamonds cannot be stopped because African villagers are desperate for money, the Kimberley Process is concerned with stopping diamond trade but it does not attempt to curtail abuse in diamond mining, and most diamonds are small and untraceable so they are easy to smuggle.
Have you ever wanted to know about a famous West Virginian? West Virginia has a rich amount of history of music. It has Appalachian folk music, styles of fiddling, and ballad singing. Many of West Virginians love country music; one of the many country singers is Brad Paisley. Brad Paisley is one of the biggest country singers today. Brad paisley always loved country music. He has been playing guitar since eight years old. Brad Paisley was born in Glen Dale West Virginia. He was born on October 28
final punishment. At the end of the story, we are left with the scene of Frank holding Kimberley over a bath of boiling water. The horrific image is left incomplete - we don't know if he throws her in or not. The final lines of the story tail off down the page: "Those big blue eyes still staring up like butter wouldn't melt" The imagery implies that although butter wouldn't melt, Kimberley certainly could in a bath of hot water. The spacing of the words shows the length of time
Conflict diamonds have played a major role in people's lives. Rape of women and girls have become a widespread problem in these African countries. Members of the war terrorized the civilian population and broke apart thousands of families. Additionally, these women who were kidnapped became forced to travel with the rebels throughout the war and many became sex slaves for the “sobels”,also known as rebels by day, soldiers by night. “In many cases the abducted were gang raped, beaten, starved, tortured
1. Introduction: This report aims to present the issue of whether Australia is doing enough to prevent youth suicide, by providing facts and opinions on the issue, as well as explaining how the issue has affected society. Furthermore, the report also identifies participants involved in the issue and how they react to the issue. 2. The Issue and Background To the Debate It is recorded that every year, there are more than 2000 cases of self-destruction in Australia (Gillard 2013). Noticeably, in 2008
promising a lifelong commitment in the first world tainted with the blood of third world grief. Works Cited Bertoni, Allessandro. DIAMONDFACTS.ORG. MDBC, 2014. Web. 6 Apr. 2014. . AllAboutDiamonds.org. N.p., 2004-2015. Web. 6 Apr. 2014. . Kimberley Process (kp). World Trade Orginization, 2014. Web. 6 Apr. 2014. . Amensty International . N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Apr. 2014. . Peley, Scott. Brilliant Earth . BBB, 2005-2014. Web. 6 Apr. 2014. . Brink's Global Services . N.p., 2014. Web. 6 Apr. 2014
Free diamonds, acquire at your own risk! Countries around the world are possessed with the most valued stones on the planet! A conflict diamond is when a rough diamond is mined in an area controlled by insurgent forces whose sale is used to finance anti- government military action.This multibillion dollar industry mines and sells these jewels to customers that can afford them. Sierra Leone, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of Congo are countries that are the main producers for the diamond industry
brutality that inhabitants of diamond villages were subjected to. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, and won numerous other awards. The film marker is trying to raise awareness of the illicit conflict diamond trade and reinforcing the Kimberley process1 and showing how it will stem the flow of conflict diamonds. This is successful mainly due to the public outburst after the movie. The great impact of the movie has caused diamond companies like De Beers2 to start a pre-emptive PR (public
different religions and ethnicities. In some cases. However, these labels are used to offend or segregate certain people from the rest of society (or in some cases, even both). In “Stop labelling people who commit crimes ‘criminals’’”, an article by Kimberley Brownlee (2017), the author talks about how this labelling exists in the case of criminals and that these labels create hate and problems. Brownlee received her BA in Philosophy from McGill, Masters in
Ancient Aboriginal rock art allows society to understand Australia’s extensive history, as it provides an insight into the lives of the early Australian inhabitants with evidence from these rock art sites tracing back to people have lived and painted in these caves and rock shelters in the past thousands of years. They also illustrate aspects of religious Aboriginal beliefs, rites and rituals such as weddings and funerals, show the importance of the land to the aborigines and their connection with