Blood Diamond: the movie

The story of the movie happened in parts of Africa, diamond mining fuels civil war, killing thousands of innocents and turning children to bloody soldiers. Danny Archer, a white African soldier,turned to a diamond smuggler who gets attached to a large jewel found by Solomon Vandy, a native fisherman. Danny offers a deal: He will help Vandy find his family if Vandy will share the diamond with him. Maddy Bowen, a journalist who they met during this chaos, agrees to help if Danny will tell her the details of how conflict diamonds are handed to the corporations who sell them to the world. Danny ends up doing the good thing instead of his personal greed he was perusing. In the end, Danny had sacrificed his own life to a good cause, which was reuniting a man with his family forgetting all his desires and wants. Maddy, helped to unveil the truth about the organizations that uses conflict diamonds with the help of Solomon. About Solomon, he moved his life from the destruction that was in Africa to London.

My reaction about the movie that it was a very interesting and useful movie. I didn’t know that Africa suffers a lot because of a material thing like diamonds. In my opinion, the actors have played the part very well and the proof is that some of the cast got nominated to an Oscar. What I didn't like about the movie is the ending, they shouldn't have killed Danny. A part of that, the movie was amazing. I really enjoyed watching. We should do that more often.

Lebanon

Introduction

Lebanon is one of the most beautiful countries in the world because it combines between the natural areas with big and modern cities like Beirut. From geographic map Lebanon is surrounded by many countries. From the south Israel and Jordon, from the west Cyprus, from the north Turkey and from the east Syria. Lebanon is the link between Asia and Africa. Lebanon has suffered from many wars.

Modern History

From1943 to 1948, a lot of events and catastrophic events had happened in Lebanon. In 1943, Lebanon had gotten its freedom from its invader country, the France but something was wrong. Christians ruled most of the country and the Muslims that lived there had little power which was the spark that led to increase the tension between the Muslims and Christians. Another factor was the refugees that came from Palestine due to the Israeli war. The tension reached its peak in 1975 when the Christians killed a bus that was full of Palestinians refugees. As a result of that, the tension escalated between those two groups, there was absolute chaos. Massacres had happened and trust between the Muslims and Christians had collapsed. In addition, the Israeli army invaded Beirut killing nearly 20,000 people and that was in 1982. At last, in 1989, a peace deal reached. The wars and the massacres had cost the country a lot. Nearly 200,000 people had died, and nearly a quarter left the country. As for the economic, it was paralyzed. Now days, Lebanon is the one of the tourism targets in the Middle East.

Lebanon Now

There are several good signs that indicate the recovery of the social and economic life. The nights are filled with fun again for both the youth and the elders. Restaurants and several shopping malls have been built. The most important indication is that nowadays, Muslims and Christians are living in harmony which a very good thing is considering that it started the chaos. Tourists come from nearly all the world to see Lebanon's culture and sights. Despite having all those good things, there is an "ugly" side for it. Living there is considered very expensive. Plus, Lebanon has one of the highest numbers of cars in the world. That led to an "awful" traffic problems. Another problem is the air pollution

Blood Diamond

Diamonds are the most precious stone in the world. Many people in the world don’t know how they get the daemons from the earth to onto your fiancés finger. I will describe important locations along the trade rout these most valuable to rocks pass.

Nowadays the diamonds trade around the world. The biggest company of producing diamonds is De Bees Consolidated Mines LTD. They have 20 mines in South Africa and they control two thirds of the diamonds on the world by restricted the amount of diamonds on the market. Belgium to be specific Antwerp is the city which has been a diamond center for six centuries and the most people how associated with the diamonds trade is the Indians and Lebanese. Today the polisher and cutter are about 1500 in the city and by 80% of the world rough diamonds pass through the city. In India 90% of the world rough diamonds are cut and polished and the Indian workers are getting 40 cent per finished gem. The rough diamonds come from South Africa and Belgium. Dubai is nowadays growing reputation as a diamonds hub by help the diamonds traders free them from the tax which makes the business worth £1 billion. One of the pop star how like the diamonds is 50 cents.

In conclusion the diamonds nowadays are very famous and the business in this subject is getting money.