January: Garnet Once available primarily as dark, reddish brown stones, the gem marketplace now offers beautiful garnets in every color, except blue. From bright green drusy Uvarovite, to neon orange mandarin Spessartites, to pure spectral green Tsavorites and raspberry pink rhodolites, garnets are available in a wide price range and many cutting styles. Hardness ranges from 6.5 to 7.5, depending on the species, garnets are reasonably durable gemstones for most jewelry uses. Main sources include India, Madagascar, Russia, Australia, Sri Lanka and the USA. As there no gem treatments commonly used on garnet to enhance its color or ...
Dear Ms. Knight Pre-Reading Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple, was the youngest of eight children in her family. Psychologists have conducted many studies on the various ways in which birth order affects the development of children. These ways include the formation of personality, the relative assertiveness of children, and the ways that children form relationships in their adult lives. In your own family, where do you fall in the birth order? How many siblings do you have? Write a journal entry in which you state your place in the birth order of your family, and describe at ...
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