“Neda, stay with me! “, the man cries. But it was of no use: On the very
same day, the video of the dying Neda Agha-Soltan was shown on Youtube.

Up to now, at least 80 people had fallen prey to the brutality of the
regime’s militia. Some members of the opposition were already threatened with
capital punishment. Neda’s death isn’t a sing …

The New York Fashion Week is the most important fashion show all over the
world. All famous designers and well-known fashion-reviewers are there and
in the spotlights.
Stylists like Rufus Wainwright, Alice Temperly, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan,
Oscar de la Renta, Zac Posen and Betsey Johnson go there.
This event is only for invited gues …

America, Land of Opportunity?

When thinking about differences in education of minority children, we have
to identify the minorities first. Some minorities assimilate easier than
others. There are many different types of minorities in the USA, such as
West-Indians, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, Chinese and many m …

We all know conglomerates. Starbucks. McDonald’s, H&M, Milka. And so on, and
so on. And we all like them. Because, whenever we see their sign, we think
of the quality we associate with them. And that’s the reason we mostly buy
products from conglomerates: because everyone knows what the products are
like and they are the same in ever …

Copenhagen was just a landmark in a new phase of brutalization

In December the environmental negotiators gathered together in the Danish
capital: What was it generally about?

The roadmap of Bali 2007 had stipulated that the parties should engage in
Copenhagen on a new mandatory regulation for climate protection after 2012.
But t …

Of course, managers have a huge charge in view of how many people they keep.
But the payment for this accomplishment mostly amounts to a few 100.000
dollars in a year. The concerns, which pay so much money for only one
person, are firing many workers in the same time. Also the payment of
managers is often connected with a lot of bonu …

New York.: The metropolis at America’s east coast. An example for all the
world: fashion, clubs, movies, life, freedom. New York is known everywhere.
Especially the New York Fashion-Week is an example for all other
fashion-weeks such as in Paris and Milano. In New York there are the
greatest designers, the most beautiful models and …

Angela Dorothea Merkel, who was born on the 17th of july 1954 in Hamburg, is
Federal Chancellor of Germany since 2005.
After 4 years of being Federal Chancellor, she was reelected last year.
Merkel is the first woman among the Federal Chancellors in Germany.
So she started a new era. She was minister of the environment and of
adolesc …

In fact, Merkel has common features with Obama. She is the first woman in a leading position in Germany, and he is the first black leader in America. I think this is the most important common feature. But apart from this, their politics is similar, at least in some points.
Aspiring after a good climate policy they both are inclined to pr …

Religious terrorism is terrorism performed by groups or individuals, the motivation of whom is typically rooted in the basic tenets of a faith. Terrorist acts throughout the centuries have been performed on religious grounds with the hope to either spread or enforce a system of beliefs, viewpoints or opinions. Religious terrorism does not …

Really a habitual situation: Sunday evening, the news on RTL: A habitual scheme of the European press, everybody is hacking on issues like Israel.
“No wonder, if you make yourself some target like they do”, critics say.
But has Israel really made itself a target of the press? Aren’t there other states in this world bargaining wrongly, …

When Berlin’s minister for the interior presented the 2002 police statistics, he introduced a new feature: from then, the statistics differentiated between German and non-German offenders and as in youth criminality there was always a difference between these two groups, this decision appeared to be very sensible. In 2005, one in eight …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded in 1947 with the target to stabilize currencies and avoid economic crises. The way this is done is to give credits to states which are getting into financial problems, so that the economy is strengthened. Since the East-Asia crisis in 1998, which were at least partly caused by the narrow-m …

Do our prejudices of the “Bible Belt” in America differ from the present reality in the United States?

When I decided to spend my exchange year in Oklahoma I was not aware of entering a region which is informally called “The Bible Belt”. So shortly before my departure I collected some information about the people I was going to stay wi …