Federal Reserve Behavior Since 1980: A Financial Markets Perspective

The financial market's understanding of Federal Reserve behavior is used to examine recent changes in monetary policy. Changes in the level of interest rats in response to specific types of economic information are primarily considered. Differences in the volatility of interest rates across period provide additional evidence on changes in monetary policy regimes. The results indicate that monetary policy changed several times since 1980 with respect to either the Federal Reserve's targets, its desire to achieve its targets, or its operating procedures. The different regimes correspond to Federal Reserve statements about changes in policy. In this context, then, the evidence suggests that policy was credible.

Texas Terror: the Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South

Texas and the Coming of the Civil WarTexas Terror Donald E. Reynolds, Professor Emeritus of history, Texas A&M, Commerce, brings historians\u27 collective attention back to an important series of events in the Lone Star State during the months leading up to the election of 1860. He...

Representations of the African Diaspora in Three Films

This thesis will examine how the African diaspora has been depicted in filmic text, from directors representing distinctly different loci of the diaspora, in Brazil, Nigeria and the United States. Film is one of many modes of expression for a culture that is based on representations. “For many people, media representations maybe their first and often only source of information about, or reference for people outside of their social and cultural circles, “(James, etc., 354) The scope of this thesis will specifically examine diasporic representation in The Journey by Chineze Anyaene, a Nigerian director of ‘Nollywood’, Walter Salles’ “City of God” and John Singleton’s “Higher Learning”. Although each of these films can be categorized in different genres, come from different cultural and directorial traditions/styles they each relate in that they depict in some way the blanketed experience of systematic racism that members of the Africa diaspora are often subjected to

The Impact Instruction has on Emotional Intelligence in an Appalachian Kentucky High School

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by Michael C. Melton on April 8, 2016

Ozone Contamination in Aircraft Cabins. Appendix A: Ozone toxicity

The recommendation that at various altitudes the amount of air with which ozone has mixed changes, thus changing the volume per volume relationship is discussed. The biological effects of ozone on human health and the amount of ozone necessary to produce symptoms were investigated

The Palmetto Standard- February 23, 1853

The collection consists of issues of the Palmetto Standard a weekly newspaper printed in Chester, S.C. from 1851 through 1853 before changing its name to the Chester Standard in 1854. This issue, scanned from microfilm is from February 23, 1853 (volume IV, number 8).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/palmettostandard1853/1007/thumbnail.jp

The Palmetto Standard- January 26, 1853

The collection consists of issues of the Palmetto Standard a weekly newspaper printed in Chester, S.C. from 1851 through 1853 before changing its name to the Chester Standard in 1854. This issue, scanned from microfilm is from January 19, 1853 (volume IV, number 4).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/palmettostandard1853/1003/thumbnail.jp

The Chester Standard - May 1, 1856

The collection consists of issues of the Chester Standard, a weekly newspaper printed in Chester S.C. from 1854 to 1869, after changing its name from the Palmetto Standard. This issue, scanned from microfilm is from May 1, 1856 (volume VII, number 18).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/chesterstandard1856/1016/thumbnail.jp

The Chester Standard - May 24, 1855

The collection consists of issues of the Chester Standard, a weekly newspaper printed in Chester S.C. from 1854 to 1869, after changing its name from the Palmetto Standard. This issue, scanned from microfilm is from May 24,1855 (volume VI, number 21).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/chesterstandard1855/1020/thumbnail.jp

The Chester Standard - March 8,1855

The collection consists of issues of the Chester Standard, a weekly newspaper printed in Chester S.C. from 1854 to 1869, after changing its name from the Palmetto Standard. This issue, scanned from microfilm is from March 8,1855 (volume VI, number 10).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/chesterstandard1855/1009/thumbnail.jp