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Reasons leading to Lincoln's victory in the 1860 presidential elections and impacts of his victory
Eisnerová, Iva ; Anděl, Petr (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Reasons leading to Lincoln's victory in the 1860 presidential elections and impacts of his victory" deals with the way of the sixteenth president to his victory in the presidential election and the implications that this caused. In terms of time and topic definition, the thesis is devoted to the period just before the American civil war. The goal of the work was to analyze factors that helped the victory in the presidential election and the events that followed immediately thereafter. Working method was based on the description, analysis and comparison. In the thesis are used as the primary sources so the secondary ones. This bachelor thesis is divided into four parts. First chapter deals with the historical overview of the events before the election, with the emphasis on the problematic issue of slavery. The second chapter analyzes the steps and factors that led to the victory in the presidential election. The third chapter shows the results of the elections and the formation of the government that followed. The fourth chapter is devoted to the consequences of the victory of Republican candidate with a focus on the beginning of the conflict between Northern and Southern states. The conclusion of the work is that many factors of personal, family and working life helped Lincoln to...
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Federal Government's changing policy toward Aboriginal peoples in Canada during the period of Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Fátorová, Eliška ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
Canada is one of the countries dealing with the conflict of Aboriginal peoples and newcomers from Europe. Canadian government has been applying a concept of assimilation of Aboriginal peoples for decades but without success. In 1968 the liberal government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau came to power and decided to resolve this problem once and for all. Trudeau's government wanted to unify the rights of all Canadian citizens and came up with undifferentiated universal citizenship. This would mean for Aboriginal peoples to give up their special rights and status. Aboriginal reaction to the proposal came soon afterwards when they published their document called Citizens plus, where they opposed government's vision. They started to form political organisations and fight for their rights and recognition in the Canadian constitution. My bachelor thesis Federal Government's changing policy toward Aboriginal peoples in Canada during the period of Pierre Elliot Trudeau tries to answer the question, whether the 1969 white paper and Aboriginal reaction to it where the key starting moments of the struggle for differentiated citizenship in Canada. To answer this question this work uses historical background, key government documents and theoretical approaches to this subject by authors such as Charles Taylor or Will...
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Interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause by the U.S. Supreme Court
Musilová, Nikola ; Kozák, Kryštof (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to analyze the issue of one of the most significant congressional powers found in Article I., Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce has been instrumental to the federal government's legislative efforts in many areas of law. This constitutional provision enabled the Congress to react to the changing conditions and new problems the country has been facing, especially in the area of working conditions, civil rights, criminal justice or even environmental law and many others. The expansion of power of the federal government, however, was not always greeted with enthusiasm, especially in the first three decades of the 20th century, before the Supreme Court began to read the commerce power much more broadly, to the point that it ceased to be a factual limitation of its powers. This trend was meant to be stopped by the New Federalism movement and the five new conservative justices who issued rulings that limited the scope of the Commerce Clause. However, this group of justices proved to be very inconsistent in its own approach toward this constitutional provision and eventually fell apart, which rendered Rehnquist's attempted constitutional revolution with respect to state's rights partly a failure. As the new Court membership under...
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American Eugenics and Its Impact on the Nazi Germany
Voborníková, Pavla ; Bečka, Jan (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
The thesis "American Eugenics and Its Impact on Nazi Germany" is a study about influence of the American eugenics movement on the racial policies of Nazi Germany. The origin of the eugenics movement is in the early 20th century. At that time, the movement also began to cooperate at the international level. After World War II, the German eugenicists were excluded from international co-operation for a while. During this period, German eugenicists began to cooperate with the American movement. German eugenicists and Adolf Hitler with other future leaders of Nazi Germany adored American immigration laws that limited immigration of "defective" ethnic groups to the United States. American eugenics movement became also a model for its research and eugenics sterilization laws in the majority of American states. This study describes the extent of this cooperation. American eugenics movement was also related to euthenics and birth control movement. The study also focused on this connection and explains why the birth control movement was not connected with the eugenics movement in the Weimar Republic, then Nazi Germany, although, the movement cooperated with eugenicists at the international level. The study covers the time from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the Second World War.
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Gender and the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries: The Case of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Ondrušková, Andrea ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
The thesis is a case study of the Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the role that gender played in the 2008 Democratic primaries. The aim of the work is to demonstrate that gender played a significant role and functioned as a discriminatory factor. The research is based on the analysis of secondary and in lesser extent also primary sources. The thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter one briefly describes the situation of women in American politics and the political climate prior to Clinton's candidacy. This part includes also a short but comprehensive summary of the most common types of gender prejudice and specific challenges that female candidates encounter when entering American high politics. Chapter two studies the phenomenon of Hillary Clinton as the most polarizing woman on the American political scene and explains how gender prejudice and traditional gender stereotypes contributed to the formation of this image. Chapter three analyses Clinton's gender strategy during the campaign and shows how she was able to cope with challenges which for her as a woman arose out of the masculine conception of presidency and how she presented her own gender. The last fourth chapter shows how the American media perceived gender. It demonstrates that the media produced often and quite...
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Portrayal of Native Americans in American Cinema in 1980s and 1990s
Vodňanský, Martin ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
My work deals with the process of displaying of the North American Indian in the American cinematography. It describes the development, transformations and stereotypes in this process from the very beginning until the end of the nineties. In detail it deals with the Indian-thematized filmmaking in the 80s and 90s and it emphasizes, according to the author, the most important Indian movies. The focus point of the study lies in the analysis of two movies Powwow Highway and Smoke Signals, which were created by the Indian production in the late 80s and 90s. The aim of the work is, with the help of the analysis, to answer the question "Were the Indian actors and directors essential for more realistic portrayal of American Indians in American cinematography?" After analyzing the mentioned movies and presenting the arguments to this question, the conclusion is affirmative.
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Hollywood Blacklist: Strategies Employed by the Individuals Interrogated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities
Štádler, Petr ; Calda, Miloš (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
Klí ová slova Antikomunismus, Výbor pro neamerickou innost, výslechy, Hollywood, spolupracující sv dci, nespolupracující sv dci Keywords Anti-Communism, House Committee on Un-American Activities, interrogations, Hollywood, cooperative witnesses, uncooperative witnesses Rozsah práce 108 349 znak
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The Aspirations and Ascent of George Washington in the Context of His Times: From His Early Years to the End of the Revolutionary War
Sýkora, Stanislav ; Raková, Svatava (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee) ; Kovář, Martin (referee)
George Washington's relatively obscure beginnings did not preclude him from admiring and acquainting himself with chivalrous role models and genteel guidelines. Longing for recognition, Washington sought opportunities to serve his influential patrons to merit their further approbation. The dissertation sets Washington's aspirations in the context of honor-based sociocultural milieu of his day and thus provides the reader with an insight into the conventional aspects of his ascent to the upper echelons of the colonial society of Virginia. At the time of the Revolution, Washington's military reputation, leadership, and admirable character earned him a unanimous election to the chief command of the American armies. The complexity of Washington's venture of accepting, exercising, and ultimately resigning the supreme military powers in relation to his reputation and sense of patriotic duty is thoroughly analyzed. Key words: George Washington, convention, ascent, ambition, patriotism, virtue
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: Two Perceptions of the Character of the USA
Jáč, Marek ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
Abstract Bachelor thesis "John Adams a Thomas Jefferson: Two Perceptions of the Character of the USA" deals with two American presidents who stood by the foundation of United States of the America. In terms of time and topic definition, the thesis is devoted to the Founding Era of the USA. The goal of this work was to compare political persons of the second and the third American president. Working method was base on the comparison both persons according to the three criteria - political thoughts on the form and the character of the government, political performance during their presidency and the personal characteristics of both presidents. In the thesis are used as the primary sources so the secondary ones. This bachelor thesis is divided into four parts. Firs chapter deals with the political biographies of both statesmen and their relationship as well. Second and third chapter analyze the Adams' and Jefferson's texts in which they expressed their political ideas about the character of the government in early USA. Last part of the work is devoted to the comparison of their political conceptions and also to the comparison of their political acts during their presidency. The conclusion of the work is that we can find a shift of the John Adams' conception from the beginning of the American Revolution,...
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