Diamonds: A Symbolism Of Blood Or Regality?

The diamond industry impacts the people of West Africa by creating a whirlwind of corruption on a political level. In sierra Leone diamonds were a valuable part of the land and they were once legitimately sold up until Sierra Leone became independent in 1961. The following years of their independence corruption flooded the land. According to an online research paper it says “with that independence came corrupt leaders, manipulation of the people , rebel groups, rivalries and civil disputes”. The correlation implies that the diamond industry has created an environment that leaves people at risk of violence, and unfair treatment by their government. The longer the diamond industry is in effect, the longer West African people will suffer from the world market demanding diamonds. Because of globalization it doesn’t look

Everyone needs hope in their lives for the good times and the bad. Hope is an essential part of human life, which is sometimes symbolized into objects. Legend by Marie Lu is a dystopian story about Day, a slum sector teen criminal, and June, a wealthy military prodigy. Marie Lu uses Day’s pendant to symbolize the hope and freedom Day and June yearn for.

“The Necklace” and “Civil Peace” show how materialism can affect one’s life through character’s thoughts, actions, and dialogue. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant shows how materialism can only create momentary satisfaction while “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe shows how one can be happy with what one already owns.

“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild, With a faery, hand in hand. For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”(W.B Yeats) Similar to what Yeats talks about in his poem, many people feel a sense of horror as they discover that the world is not the happy place they imagined it was when they were a child. When it becomes time for a child to shed his/her innocence and take on the responsibilities of adulthood, one wishes that he/she could just run away from it all, just like the human child in this quote by Yeats. The world is full of weeping and horrors, but an innocent person can do nothing to help. Innocence cannot see injustice through its closed eyes. That is why it

Of all the symbols that are in Steinbeck’s story, the pearl of the world is the most important because of its direct impact on Kino, Juana, and Coyotito. The Pearl is about a poor diver, Kino, who gathers pearls for a living. Then, on a day like any other, Kino comes to the surface of the sea with a pearl as large as a seagull’s egg. Kino thought it would be a source of wealth, hope, and comfort, whereas it was actually the evil that destroyed their family.

“Could I change it if I wanted, can I rise above the flood? / Will it wash out in the water, or is it always in the blood?” (Mayer). A question posed by the artist John Mayer holds true for the characters in Flannery O’Connor’s most famous novel, Wise Blood. In this novel, O’Connor paints a picture of a small town in the heart of the Bible Belt and the internal struggle of its inhabitants. The protagonist, Hazel Motes, procures a twisted version of the Gospel and evangelizes to those who are made to believe they are lost. Yet, according to the teachings of Haze, this picture that humans are inherently sinful and in need of saving is false. In this novel, Flannery O’Connor uses inanimate objects to show the attempts of Haze to replace what he knows to be true. Enoch Emory, on the other hand, struggles with a curse he believes he was born with – wise blood. The prevalent themes of symbolism and imagery in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood represent the inner battle between spirituality and the human nature of rebellion.

Diamond is one of the most expensive gemstones. It is rare and it has difficult ways to extract. Diamond has been discoverd from thousands of years, it is the result of exposure carbon to heat under the ground over onethousand and fourhandred dgrees, and this is how diamonds are shaped. In this essay I will write , explain and compare between the four article about purpose and audence.

Bloodletting finally migrated to America and the European colonists and also to the residents of Plymouth to the Founding Fathers. Barbers, known as Barber- Surgeons, began to take over the procedure because they were naturally skilled with sharp objects and they also performed other health related task. The barber poles seen today that decorate their shops are actually representing bloodletting. The red swirling line symbolizes the blood, the white symbolizes the bandages that stopped the bleeding, and the pole symbolizes the stick the patient would squeeze in his/her hands to dilate the veins

Symbols are extremely important in any novel, as they give characters a deeper understanding as we read. When a novel is created into a movie, some symbols are not shown or not expressed as much as they were in the book. This can cause for the characters in the movie to seem less complete than as they were in the novel. When Wise Blood was made into a movie the director, John Huston, left out, or did not express some key symbols such as Haze’s mother’s glasses and the bible, the white hat, and the car. John Huston’s lack of emphasis on the symbols of Haze’s mother’s glasses and the Bible, the white hat, and the car caused for Haze to be not completely understood in the movie as he was in the novel.

You know what I can’t stand for? I cannot stand it when black women talk, now hold on. You know exactly what I mean, they’re angry, hell hath no fury like a black woman, and yes indeed I cannot stand it. I cannot stand it when black women speak in media portrayals. They take the perfectly decent image of women and warp their blackness and gender into something that’s cancerous and embarrassing. In this short essay we will explore how the image of the Sapphire has been preserved in the media (specifically film) despite the apparent strides in black rights. To understand this though we have to look to two planes of realities, blackness and gender. To understand how they are interlinked we must understand the individual properties and repercussions blackness/gender have had separately. Then we can infer the devastating effect the two have mixed together…

This essay supports the statement “The price of diamonds is too high”. Diamonds have always been presumed to be rare. They have been present in history as a symbol of wealth and luxury as they were so difficult to find. Nowadays diamonds are mined and are found all over the world but they are sold through a cartel. (Epstein 1982) A cartel limits the supply of a product in order to keep prices high and to limit competition. (South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary: 2002) This raises the question of whether diamonds are actually worth their price. This essay focuses on the origins and the basic theory behind the diamond cartel; the early operation of the cartel; De Beers’ strong market campaign; determining De Beers’ current

SUBJECT T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone is a tale about a young boy named Wart in Anglo Saxon England. " The Wart was called the Wart because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name." (The Sword in the Stone, White 1) He is accompanied in some of his travels by his foster brother Kay, whose family adopted him.

Some people may think that status or wealth, automatically means that they are exempt from the bad things in life such as illness or deadly diseases. A group of wealthy people think that they can escape death by locking themselves away from the world, but they will discover they are mistaken. In the story “The Red Masque” by Edgar Allan Poe a terrible contagion is spreading across the world. Price Prospero a wealthy lord, invites one thousand guests to lock themselves in his castellated abbeys to escape the Red Death. The Prince orders the gates be welded shut allowing no entrance or exit, thus not allowing the red death to come in and infect him or his guests.

In the novel, The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness, Viola represents the exploration of the unknown. A piece of evidence that concludes that Viola does indeed represent the exploration of the unknown is on page 68 and 69 when Todd and Viola first meet. The reason why this shows that Viola represents what she does is because Todd had never seen a girl in real life, believing they were all killed, yet a girl stood right before him. This was the triggering event that caused many other things to happen throughout the story, and is why Viola represents the exploration of the unknown. Viola is also a round and dynamic character, also being one of the protagonists.

Color. Clarity. Cut. Carat Weight: These four words are what jewelers in the industry use to determine the monetary value of a diamond. However in 1947 De Beers found a way to not only boost their sales but also make a psychological necessity out of this sparkly stone, and it all began with four vastly different words, “A Diamond Is Forever” (Frances Garety), and accompanied by phrases such as “Isn’t two months’ salary a small price to pay for something that lasts forever (N.W. Ayers)?