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Author: Apostol Radev
ID: 067358
Instructor: Larry Johnson
Course: BC 306
Date: 25.05.2006
Blood diamond
“Call me old fashioned but nothing says I love you more than a big rock” Catherine Zeta Jones says after her engagement to Michael Douglas which resulted in a 2 million pound dazzler. It has always been like this. Zeta Jones is not the first and surely not the last women to believe that diamond jewelry is the ultimate way to show someone’s your love. But actually this is the easiest way to do it. When we are talking about diamond wedding ring with a cost of 1.5 million dollars, we are not talking exactly about love. We are talking about glamorous, power, money and obsession. Does what Zeta Jones says mean that only people who can afford a diamond ring are the only ones capable to express love? Actually this seems to be a kind of cliché. Wealthy and famous people have always been in pursuit to show the world how rich they are, or how much their spouse loves them. And after the public is preoccupied by all this things that celebrities do, we also do our best to compare our life with theirs. And this result in following every word or act they do. In the past fifteen years diamonds have become the most desirable and attractive rock not only for wedding rings, but for all kinds of accessories. There are some important questions that every one should ask when shopping a diamond.
Only minorities of people are aware how and where diamonds are mining, sorting and manufacturing. In the years, the history of human kind has faced with very big political and...
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