Papers On The Moonstone

On page 520, Doerr uses imagery to show how a diamond called the ‘Sea of flames’ will eventually rise up from the water again and belong to someone with ill-intentions. The stone would be discovered in “--another year, another day, another hour, when a storm claws one particular stone out of a canyon and sends it into a clattering flow of alluvium, where it eventually finds, one evening, the attention of a prince who knows what he is looking for.” The Sea of flames was a diamond that everyone wanted out of envy. It was priceless and beautiful, but was also cursed; It protects the person who has it until they realize they can they survive on their own. Marie-Laure’s father gives her the stone, but she learns that she never needed it in the first place and that it does more harm than good. She decides to tell her friend Warner to throw it out in the water inside a box with a key from the Natural Museum of History, where her father had worked. This event can be interpreted in many different ways, but the main idea that sticks out is that Warner dies after he gets rid of the stone. Once he no longer possessed it, it could no longer keep him safe. Everyone but him survived after the curse was lifted and the stone was given back to the sea. This quote comes long after the initial event, and showcases that the stone would not be hidden forever. That greed, no matter how much it is suppressed, will find its way to the

The Sapphires by Wayne Blair is an award-winning film, which explore the lives of four aboriginal women Gail (Deborah Mailman, Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell) and their cousin Kay (Shari Sebbens) throughout their journey and role in the Vietnam War. A range of film techniques such as settings, characters, conflicts and symbols are used to explore prejudice towards their indigenous heritage, with a variety of film techniques as well.

Analyse how the use of film features shaped your response to one or more themes in the film.

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 the diamond begins in the jungles of Sierra Leone and ends up in the London on its market. This is what could be said to be the ultimate reason for this book "Blood Diamond”. Evidently, Campbell wanted to expose or let it be known how African

Rose quartz is a mineral composed of oxygen and silicon with the chemical formula SiO2. It is a 7 on Mohs scale of hardness just like any other quartz.Its central gravity is 2.63-2.65. Rose quartz transparency is translucent to transparent. Rose quartz has a vitreous luster and its mineral class is quartz.It is the most abundant mineral found on earth mostly found in the earth's crust.(https://www.crystalvaults.com/crystal-encyclopedia/rose-quartz)

Gifted as part of a dowry in 1612, the fate of the diamond, along with several other high profile gems, were unknown after the Franco-Spanish war of 1635, before it mysteriously reappeared over three centuries later.

Myths, legends, and stories of invincibility all have one thing in common: there is a slight bit of truth to all of them. No matter how far-fetched a story might sound, at one point, some part of it was most likely true. In All the Light We Cannot See, a fictional book by Anthony Doerr based around the time period of World War II, the reader follows the story of a blind girl, Marie-Laure, who carries with her The Sea of Flames, a priceless diamond with a legend behind it. The diamond is described as “a brilliant blue, the blue of tropical seas, but it has a touch of red at its center, like the flames inside a drop of water” (Doerr 20). It is said that the raw stone was found in a dry riverbed by a prince, who was attacked on his voyage home

He introduces the former chapter with a vast array of rocks and chalcedony, describing them as “[a] treasure not in money but in beauty,” (61). Immediately after he notes “rockhounds and… commercial merchandisers of stone” who, he says, would seize everything if it weren’t for protective laws (61). The disparity between appreciating the beauty of the environment and only anticipating the monetary value is a technique Abbey uses throughout the book to provide the reader with a sense of loss. It is a way of influencing his readers towards his bias by strengthening the feeling of a prejudice that supports nature. When discussing the capitalization of precious gemstones, he is unconstructive in suggesting actions that could potentially help resolve the matter of assigning a price to invaluable stones. In this case, Abbey does not insult the “souvenir hunters”, although there is an implied criticism to them when compared to the allure of minerals

In World Civilization, we generally learn about the different civilizations there were in the past and what caused them to either fail or succeed, which is what Jared Diamond did in this book.

In the beginning of the story in chapter one,A young boy named moonshadow had heard about the land of the golden mountain during the gold rush in california.The tang people called the people that lived in america demons.They thought the demons were evil for the death of moonshadow’s grandfather.Every time moonshadow brought up the subject about the land of the golden mountain moonshadow’s mother found out that there was something wrong with her farm.She tries to change the subject because she knows how evil the demons are for the death of moonshadow’s grandpa.

When the main characters are first being introduced Gordie, the narrator, tells us a small story about his friend, Vern Tessio, who “buried a quart jar of pennies under the long Tessio front porch.” (300) Gordie later explains that Vern “was playing a pirate sort of game, and the pennies were buried treasure...He forgot all about it for a month or so...He tried to find the spot from memory and dug there. No luck. To the right and left of that spot. Still no luck,” (300-301). Vern’s penny jar, which he considers to be his treasure, is like his friendship with the rest of the boys. Their friendship is considered treasure due to the fact that they are each other's support system and they all stand by each other no matter what happens. The fact that Vern lost his treasured penny jar is like when the boys stop talking to each other after they come back home from finding Ray Brower’s dead body. Gordie later confirms this by saying “Teddy and Vern slowly became just two more faces in the halls or in three-thirty detention,” (432). Like the penny jar was never

In the poem ‘Moon’, Kathleen Jamie explores themes of abandonment, loneliness and disconnection. She does this by utilizing a clearly dysfunctional relationship between a mother and child. The child replaces the either mentally or physically absent mother with the presence of the moon. To explore the emotional distance between child and mother, the author uses dark and light imagery to empathize the child’s loneliness and to evoke the scene of a parent visiting they child late at night. Personification of inanimate objects illustrates the detrimental effects the unavailable mother has on the child’s mental wellbeing. The poem ends with dialogue from the protagonist, the child, pointing out that the moon is not her mother, as if to be

The nugs of the Blue Moon Rocks cannabis strain are round, dense, and sticky, with blue and purple hues and a healthy dusting of trichomes. Both the flavor and aroma have notes of berry and tea, while the taste also has hints of lavender and the tropics.

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Let us presuppose to begin with that the cursed jewel is an impossibility and the powers of the Moonstone or any other gem for that matter only exist on an atomic level ( i.e. the energies which bind such objects together and make them what they are). Additionally it should be considered that no such object is the means by which a being exerts powers and no such object consciously exerts powers itself. Notions of the cursed or powerful jewel can be seen as a bi-product of what Said terms “Orientalism.” Said describes “The Orient” as “almost a European invention,” a place of “exotic beings and remarkable experiences.” (Ashcroft et al ed. p.87) This hypothesis