industrial purposes or in the luxury sector (gemstones) Diamond jewellery is worth more than US$72 billion per year (very high profitability) The biggest slice of the cake A giant’s first steps Founded in 1888 in South Africa by Cecil Rhodes‚ De Beers quickly obtained a dominant position in the world diamond market. In just a few years‚ DeBeers became the leading company of an international cartel‚ mostly thanks to Ernest Oppenheimer and its heirs. “Common sense tells us that the only way
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The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói — MAC) is situated in the city of Niterói‚ Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil‚ and is one of the city’s main landmarks. It was completed in 1996. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini‚ who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects‚ the MAC-Niterói is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 metres with three floors. The museum projects itself over Boa Viagem (“Bon Voyage‚” “Good
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Cabeza de Vaca experienced many changes throughout the years he spent with the natives‚ both in himself and in his view of the native people. At first‚ his opinion and relationship with the indians was not a good one. However‚ after receiving much help from them during the difficult times in their expedition‚ his respect for the native people grew. Also‚ after getting lost and having to survive alone in the wilderness with no food‚ he changed significantly as a man. He somehow kept himself alive
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Willem de Kooning is considered one of the best American painters to ever live. He is compared to one of the Greek Sea Gods‚ Proteus‚ and is called "a master of a liquid realm who is gifted with prophecy" (Kertess).De Kooning is a highly intellectual‚ analytical artist with the courage to reject all assumptions and to take up an issue at its "most difficult formation" (Hess 16). One of de Kooning’s good friends was the poet‚ art critic‚ and MOMA Curator‚ Frank O’Hara. O’Hara considered de Kooning
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problems. Not surprisingly‚ when Lazarillo de Tormes was written‚ albeit anonymously‚ it was a popular book with reprintings‚ additions of extra parts and even other editions. The picaresque figure‚ which featured in this slapstick comedy‚ intertwined with a number of themes ranging from hypocrisy‚ deceit‚ religious satire‚ poverty and hunger through to corruption‚ fortune and honour. Whether it represented an
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Differential Cryptanalysis of the Full 16-round DES Eli Biham Computer Science D e p a r t m e n t Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000‚ Israel Adi Shamir Department of Applied Mathematics and C o m p u t e r Science The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot 76100‚ Israel Abstract I this paper we develop the first known attack which is capable of breaking n the full 16 round DES in less than the complexity of exhaustive search. The d a t a analysis phase computes the
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Eamon de Valera‚ although born in New York City‚ in the United States of America‚ devoted his life to help the people of Ireland. As he once said it‚ "If I wish to know what the Irish want‚ I look into my own heart." De Valera loved Ireland and its people with a deep and lasting passion. It was he‚ probably more than any other person in their history‚ who helped that country win freedom from British rule and then shaped its history well into the twentieth century. De Valera ’s mother‚ Catherine
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Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure (/sɔːˈsʊr/ or /soʊˈsʊr/; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century.[1][2] He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics.[3][4][5][6] One of his translators‚ Emeritus Professor of Linguistics (Oxford University)‚ Roy Harris‚ summarized Saussure’s contribution to linguistics and the study
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (French pronunciation: [gi d(ə) mo.pa.ˈsɑ̃] ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer‚ considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form’s finest exponents. A protégé of Flaubert‚ Maupassant’s stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient‚ effortless dénouements. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent
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Wallace and de Botton David Foster Wallace informs a graduating class that in order to succeed‚ they need to learn how to think. Wallace gives examples of selfish thinking; he asserts‚ “We rarely think about this sort of natural‚ basic self-centeredness because it’s so socially repulsive. But it’s pretty much the same for all of us” (Wallace 201). Wallace argues the fact that people have a tendency to not think about being in someone else’s shoes. His speech states the importance of awareness thinking
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