This dissertation is a historical investigation into the relationship between the North and South during the civil rights movement and into the struggle for racial equality and justice between 1940 and 1965. It challenges the notion that the CIvil rights movement was a southern phenomenon that moved North during the 1960s. Too often, civil rights literature has considered the southern movement, while excluding northern struggles. The dominance of the southern narrative is reinforced by a frequently articulated assertion that African-Americans in the urban North found non-violent direction irrelevant. The latter's turn to the North results in analysis that posit a passive, disorganised inarticulate northern AfricanAmerican population that became impulsive when the southern civil rights movement failed to change black lives. What my study hopes to do is quite simply to place the southern movement in a comparative context by examining the civil rights movement outside the South. Unlike much of the historiography of the civil rights movement, the experiences of northern activists, in addition to activists in the South, are of importance in my narrative. Employing organisational documents, letters, newspapers, private collections, and over thirty personal interviews, this work demonstrates that, well before the urban rebellions, northern activists employed research, rallies, and sit-ins to forward integration. It moves between the civil rights movement in one city in the South, Binningham, and the civil rights movement in one city in the North, Detroit, demonstrating the continual connections and mutual reinforcement that occurred between northern and southern movements throughout the twenty five-year struggle

To invest money in funds is increasing rapidly in popularity and one of the biggest reasons is that banks are offering a greater range of funds. Information about funds is always easy to find and it is easy to invest money in a fund because the bank takes care of all the management of the fund. The essay examines two funds from two different countries with an aim to choose the one with best potential yield. The first fund is entirely invested in North America and the second fund invests in Asia, with most of its possessions in companies from China. Both these funds invest in wellknown companies in respective region. The essay is limited to compare these funds with data from 2005 to 2009. Information was collected from Morningstar and Avanza Bank for the quantitative examination. The qualitative examination was based on an interview with a fund analyzer. The financial instruments were used to compare the funds and choose the fund that had the highest yield in relation to risk. This fund was also the one chosen as the better of the two. In addition evaluation was done by calculation of financial variables, the standard deviation, total return, average return, Sharpe ratio and a comparison of the funds yields with yields from similar funds in the same region. Result shows high yields from the fund invested in China, compared to the much lower yields for the North American fund. The China fund had a standard deviation (risk) of 46, 1 % while the North American fund had 23, 9 %. This is because the yields of the China fund were much more variably. In addition the yields were also much higher for the China fund. The holding period return was calculated to a positive result for the China fund while the North American fund showed a negative result. Also the average yield shows a positive result for the China fund and a negative result for the North American fund. The Sharpe ratio that measures the yield with regards to the risk shows a better result for the China fund. In comparison with similar funds in the same regions the China fund has given higher yields than the average fund in the same region, while the North American fund gave less yields than the average fund that invests in the same region. The fund analyzer was more positive to the China fund, due to its appeal to the investor.

Enthüllungen über groß angelegte NSA-Lauschangriffe auf die Bundesrepublik, die auch vor dem Mobiltelefon der Bundeskanzlerin nicht haltmachten, haben mit neuer Intensität nicht nur die Frage nach dem deutsch-amerikanischen Verhältnis auf die Tagesordnung gesetzt. Bedeutet diese Massenspionage, dass Grundrechte in Deutschland von auswärtigen Diensten umstandslos außer Kraft gesetzt werden können? Oder ist sie der Vorbote eines aufziehenden Hegemonialkonflikts zwischen der EU und den USA?

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Zugl.: Regensburg, Univ., Diss., 2007

Zugl.: Wien, Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2007

Hamburg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Bibliography: l. 73-76.

Zugl.: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2005