Gemstone

Robin had told his friend Helena that he wanted to talk to her about something personal and she had grinned and insisted on talking about it in her treehouse. He followed her through the copse at the back of her garden, barely keeping up. Her feet barely seemed to touch the leafy ground. She reached a beech tree with a tree house nestled in the branches and shinnied up the trunk. "Wait!" called Robin. A rope ladder came clattering down. Robin supposed he should haul himself up it, although he…

opened my eyes and watched as the ball tipped into the cup. I shrugged. "That is just not right," Rhonda scoffed. "Let's go dig for fossils. My little psyche can’t handle another loss." Turns out it wasn’t just fossils we were mining for, it was gemstones as well. It wasn’t nearly as fun as go-karts. It was late when we got there and so it was mostly empty. We were wrist deep in the sand when Rhonda decided to be serious. "So what are we going to do about the guy shipping stuff?" Rhonda glanced…

Gold margins are standardized because of adornment+ investment factor. However, quest for greater margins is driving diversification from gold jewellery products. Demand for gold jewellery remains very strong because of cultural traditions, Gold jewellery sales - for weddings, in particular - will continue to generate volume growth for jewellery retailers. Platinum and diamond jewellery sales will generate margin growth. The shift to more profitable diamond jewellery has been smooth because…

The proposed program will address the health problem of Malaria in children 0-5 years old in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi. (I haven’t find a specific site yet but I know that I want my intervention to take place in the city) Geographic placement Kenya is located on the eastern coast of Africa surrounded by Ethiopia on the North, Somalia on the northeast, South Sudan in the Northwest, Uganda on the West, Tanzania on the South and the Indian ocean on the east (Kenya Malaria Indicator Survey 2015)…

I’m not superstitious. I don’t believe in luck. If I did, I wouldn’t be a house robber. Well, not really a robber. I break into old houses, see what I can find, then sell it. It’s not like I’m hurting anyone. It does limit my field of movement however; when my parents live in the same state as me and think that I’m in india with some expensive job. Now, one special night, I had decided to go into the house that i’ve been avoiding all my job : Elwood Mansion. I didn’t go there because of two…

The Serpent Aiden jumped into the shallow water and grabbed the rope. He pulled long and hard as the small boat scraped against the shore. “McLaughlin! Watch the rocks!” His father, Tadgh yelled down to him from where he stood on the bow. The shore was littered with jagged stones, even though Ireland was mainly grassy. The sky was grey, and it was starting to rain more heavily than the drizzle that took up most of the voyage. Aiden's red-brown hair was sopping and falling into his eyes, making…

Karl Beck son and Arthur Gang define the term “Synaethesia” as the intermingling of sensations; the sensing for example of certain sounds through colors or odors .(Beck son and Ganz,209) .Fogle , while amplifying Professor June E. Downey”s concept of synasthesia ,hints at the possibility of visual participation in some of the sensation clusters concerned : “ The function of all poetic imagery is to order ,relate, and unify desperate modes of physical, mental and emotional experience…

CHAPTER FOUR Scrumptious Gnome Pie I hadn 't been asleep for very long when something above me starting tapping lightly on my chest with what felt like a finger. I cracked an eye waking from the nightmare to discover that I was face to face with the little gnome that I 'd meet in the Enchanted Forest. I struggled to raise, still shaky from the dream and shouted, "Cotton, you scared me." "Sorry, is that you Aiden?" he said and eyes twinkled as his tiny month cracked open into a huge smile.…

The Corruption The sun was shining bright on the town of Endsville, the only thing that was off, was that robotic figures were wandering the town, the amazement of the AI was jaw-dropping. One resident, who was always paranoid, and would always stay alone in his home, was a boy named Jack Darktail. This boy was the only one in the town that was the one who would actually question the amount of AI that was within the town. When he would walk outside at any time in his life, he would end up being…

seaweed and brushwood heated at extreme temperatures; the stain-glass main significance to Egyptian culture was that it was a symbol of Aristocracy and only the monarchs and the wealthy could afford it. Colored gems were classy and for nearly every gemstone, there was a glass formulation to mimic it. Stained glass in early Egypt was considered more of a domestic luxury than and artistic medium. Early Arabic stain glass showed Islamic beliefs and mainly consisted of precise geometrical shapes to…