Synopsis The movie Blood Diamond starts with a man and his son walking down a road in Sierra Leone. It is obvious that the man Solomon is a loving father to his son Dia. They talk about Dia’s future as a doctor until Solomon spots a car full of Revolutionary United Front (RUF) soldiers coming down the road. The RUF soldiers are there to kidnap young men and turn them into child soldiers as well as take some of the grown men to work in the diamond fields. The RUF is cutting off the hands of some of the grown men, but decide to spare Solomon and use him in the diamond field. They kidnap Dia where they will later abuse and brainwash him into becoming a child soldier. The movie then moves along to Solomon working in a diamond field where he watches another man get killed over taking a diamond, while all of this happens he finds a giant diamond that he hides under his toes and takes to bury while he peeing. He is caught, but luckily avoids being killed because at the same time the diamond field is bombed and Solomon and his captures are arrested. This is where Archer and Solomon meet. Archer overhears the RUF soldier harassing Solomon about the huge diamond and gets himself and Solomon bailed out. Archer’s friend bails him out and he also bails out Solomon in an attempt to get the large diamond. Archer is promised half of the proceeds and to be reunited with his family if he shows Archer the diamond. Solomon refuses to help Archer. At this point, a woman named Maddy who is a journalist doing a story on blood diamonds is introduced to Solomon. Solomon agrees to lead them to the diamond with help from Maddy exposing the world to the terror of blood diamonds. They make their way back to the diamond field where they are able to retrieve... ... middle of paper ... ...It is easy to trust labels and outer appearances. I see this with the green washing marketing strategies employed by so many companies these days. Even NGO’s are becoming more and more similar to a corporate model than that of a traditional NGO. A fraction of my donation actually goes to foreign aid with certain companies. It is important to choose companies and NGO’s that are transparent in their operations. Transparency allows consumers to make informed decisions. It was interesting to come into this class with an Environmental background because I didn’t think that I could relate to this class so much. Community development is largely environmental and social. I am a more informed consumer from my experiences this semester. It is exciting and scary to see the world in this perspective, but I feel like I have grown from the knowledge that I gained from this class.
Barrett begins the novel with the crew loading the ship for the expedition, to search for the famous British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men, lost in the artic. It was said that any man to find him would have been assured of fame and glory. The expedition's youthful commander, Zachariah Voorhees also called Zeke, is determined to search for the men, lost now for nearly a decade. As being the captain of the merchant ship for years, he now is planning for a voyage through the Arctic and to discover places never seen before. The story is told from an omniscient point of view where different people's personal feelings and thoughts are revealed in many ways.
Solomon's silver watch contained multifaceted significance with regard to his character and it's effect on Livvie--it represented prestige and wealth, control and obsession, and a life of dark retreat. For Solomon the watch represented the prestige and wealth that were rarely attained by colored people. "For he was a colored man that owned his land and had it written down in the courthouse." (P. 85) Yet the watch also had another dimensionCit meant control over his life and his possessions, including Livvie.
on how to manage the girls. In the end he decides to get Alice and
While giving a tour or precrime to Edward Witwer, the main character John Anderton finds the he is supposed to kill a person he never met Leopold Kaplan. When he tries to run and hide from precrime, Anderton is kidnapped by Kaplan. Kaplan is about to turn Anderton in to the police when Anderton is rescued by Fleming. Fleming gives Anderton money and a clue, which leads Anderton to conclude that he has an alternate future that will clear his name. He then goes to precrime to find his minority report and prove to the police that he will not commit murder. He is discovered by his wife, who he suspects is working against him, and they both leave precrime in a helicopter. On the helicopter, Anderton, his wife Lisa, and Fleming get into a fight and Anderton kills Fleming after discovering that Fleming is working for Kaplan in order to take precrime down and establish a military police state. Lisa and Anderton return to precrime where Witwer and they come up with a plan to save precrime by proving the predictions of the precogs correct where Anderton will kill Kaplan. At a press conference, Kaplan is about the revel the failure of precrime t...
This happens when Sara and her best friend go to a speed dating get together. Hitch arrives, being direct with Sara about Albert being a great man and how in love he is with Allegra. Sara blasts back, once again assuming what Hitches motives are with his clients and his own. Hitch is opening up a little in this scene and Sara is not noticing because her mind is still clouded over what she assumes previously. Once Hitch realizes who the source is, he clarifies that the information is false and lets both Sara and her best friend know the truth. Later, Sara tries to apologize to Hitch for exposing his job and all the trouble she has caused. It was in fact not the bad business that she had thought originally, and in fact was doing something positive. The positive that Hitch was doing, was helping the guys communicate better with the women they like, instead of false pretenses.
... to make the trip.Kenny cares for Nathan, and tells Rukmani that the man hasn’t been eating well enough. Rukmani says that they eat as well as they can.Rukmani comes home one day to find Sacrabani cowering in a corner, looking at his grandfather, who is sitting on the floor looking into nothing.Nathan then announces the horrible news.Sivaji showed up for a visit, and their land is going to be sold to the tannery. All the time they spend working the land doesn’t matter because the tannery will pay more for the land.Nathan and Rukmani will be moving to the city.Then there is the question of Ira and Sacrabani. Though Nathan and Rukmani think they must go with them, Ira says she and her son have a home here. People are used to her and her son, and she does not want to begin a new life somewhere else.Setting is in there hut in rural India.
By inserting the past experiences of the people Solomon interviewed, he was able to to accomplish his goal by letting one know that anyone can go through a hardship but just like the mother who was raped or Dr. Ma Thida, that instead of dwelling in the past, they used their struggles to construct a new identity for them and become stronger. Never allow the traumas one has experienced to stunt the growth of one’s intellectual mind or personality. As Solomon states, “Forge meaning, Build Identity. And then invite the world to share your
Mrs. Diana Dogge is guilty for stealing Mr. Weimaraner’s diamonds.The diamonds were said to have been located at the center of the table, however a closer inspection of the scene suggests otherwise. When the picture of the scene is reviewed, it is evident that Mrs. Dogge’s seat, seat a, is located closest to the platter of diamonds. Since the platter of diamonds is actually closer to her seat, it would be an effortless task for her to quickly swipe the diamonds and get back into the house without the others noticing, furthermore the platter of diamonds may have truly been at the center of the table and Dogge could have pulled the platter closer to her and snatched the diamonds, leaving the platter of diamonds closer to her seat. Also, when
...ba (112). Throughout the novel, Sethe is devoted to the search of her husband just like Solomon’s beloved wife. Although Sethe never reunites with her husband because he was killed by slaveholders, Morrison creates a replacement in the character Paul D, another former slave. Paul D satisfies the biblical beloved’s description of Sethe’s bridegroom: “I am my beloved’s and his desire is toward me” (7:10), thus fulfilling the promise of a requited love that is pictured in the union of Solomon and Sheba (120).
Ans. 1) Genocide, child soldiers, slavery. Solomon was forced into slavery in a diamond mine, working in terrible conditions against his will by Captain Poison. After Solomon escaped his son Dia was captured by Captain Poison and he too was forced into slavery as a child soldier, Dia was brainwashed by the RUF and forced to take part in the torture and murder of innocent civilians, he was drugged and mentally tortured. Solomon’s whole village was burned down and the villagers who were not fit for work has their hands cut off. Those who were fit for work were torn from their families and forced into slave labour. Refugees including Solomon’s wife and
So after Jonathan and Chad received their awards, the “Black Panther”, or Sean Banks, is delivered to the court for his trial. In his confession, they learned that Sean Banks was Michael Smith’s co-worker and was jealous that Smith got a promotion instead of him. But he had done more than just killing. He was behind the theft of a diamond in a museum and also sold drugs. They showed the evidence that proves Sean Banks was the “Black Panther” and he was declared guilty by the judge. He was sentenced to a lifetime in prison and Jonathan and Chad go back home to celebrate. They throw a party and invite their friends and family. After the party ends, they sit down on the couch and watch some TV. Suddenly, a “Breaking News” appears on the TV.
This film is about a woman named Ellie Andrews, who jumps over the side of a yacht to flee from her rich and abusive father to reunite and get back to her fiancé. Her father then hires a private detective to find her as well as setting a 10,000-dollar bounty on her for her return. In order to get back to her fiancé, she takes a bus to New York, when she meets a reporter named Peter Warne. They first meet after she takes his seat on the bus after he had removed the newspapers that were stacked on the seat. At one of the stops, a burglar steals her purse with her money in it while she was smoking. She doesn’t report it for the fear of being found by her father. After recognizing Ellie as the run-away daughter in the paper, Pete offers to help reunite her with her fiancé at the cost of an exclusive newspaper story. If she refuses to do what he says, then he will turn her in back to her father. On their journey to New York, they begin to grow a friendship between them and they start to develop romantic feelings towards one another.
...it can be quite challenging to monitor, adapt to, and respond to so many demands and obligations, but it is well worth for it. Not only is it ethical and helps you treat people and nature fairly and respectfully, but it is also just good business sense. Nowadays, customers are attracted to companies and brands that are socially responsible. Take, for instance, the green fashion movement. While it was once dismissed as a trend, its ability to stick around for so many years has proven that people want to do well and buy good.
The conflict began when Mathilde attended a party wearing a necklace she borrowed from a rich friend, which was discovered lost by the end of the night. Mathilde finally got a glimpse into the life she believed she belonged to, but both she and her husband paid for it heavily for many years to come. The necklace she borrowed and lost served as a gateway into that world, and as a hasty exit out of it.
It is obvious that the school aims to be a major player in the development of a responsible and sustainable economic and social environment. According to me, this is mainly visible through the large number of courses offered related to social responsibility topics, the CSR research seminars and CSR days.