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Vnímání osobnosti Edvarda Beneše a jeho zahraničně-politických kroků současnými středoškolskými studenty
Kocsisová, Sára
Kocsisová, S. Perceptions of Edvard Beneš and his foreign-policy actions by contemporary high school students. Brno: Mendel University in Brno. Faculty of Regional Developemnt and International Studies, 2022. Head of Diploma Thesis: Mgr. Eva Taterova, MA, Ph.D. This bachelor's thesis deals with the analysis of the opinions of high school students on the foreign policy steps taken by Edvard Beneš in the period 1935-1945. The thesis is divided into two parts - a literature research and an analytical part. The literary research deals with the description of the life and political career of Edvard Beneš from his youth to the events of February 1948. The analytical part deals with the analysis of the information obtained from the questionnaire survey and the comparison of individual opinions on the actions of the second Czechoslovak president. The last part of the thesis evaluates and presents the findings obtained with the help of the questionnaire survey.
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The Theme of Concentration Camp in English Literature (Heather Morris, John Boyne, Wendy Holden)
MORÁVKOVÁ, Petra
This thesis aims to conduct a comparative analysis of three novels that seek to convey the horrors of World War II to readers through the theme of concentration camps: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, Born Survivors by Wendy Holden, and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. The theoretical introduction will provide a brief characterization of the depiction of World War II in English and American literature. Separate chapters will introduce the authors and the basic plots of the stories. Subsequent chapters will focus on the characters including prisoners and war criminals. The thesis will also address how fiction is intertwined with reality in these novels. Lastly, the thesis will examine the similarities and differences in portraying concentration camps in the novels for adult readers (Morris and Holden) and in the story aimed at children (Boyne).
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Národopisná Morava and the Role of Folk Culture in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Mouchová, Tereza ; Juhászová, Tereza (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the group Národopisná Morava, which was founded in Uherské Hradiště in 1939. In addition to its ethnographic focus, which included the organisation of ethnographic events and courses, the group also cooperated with the occupation and the Protectorate administration. The thesis deals with the process of its establishment, the characteristics of its programme and its functioning within the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The first part of the thesis is also devoted to the relationship of this group with Národní souručenství and the Occupation Administration, from which Národopisná Morava gained a monopoly on the organisation of ethnographic festivals during the years of World War II. The second part of the thesis analyses the ways in which Národopisná Morava used folk culture to achieve its goals and promote its interests. The aim is to show, through content analysis, the connection between political issues and folk culture within the periodicals to which members of Národopisná Morava contributed. This connection is further explored in relation with ethnographic festivals, which were well attended due to the popularity of folk culture. The events organised by Národopisná Morava and ethnographic festivals in general were among the few events that were supported by...
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Cultural Publicism in London Exile Periodicals during the Second World War
Batistová, Anna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Orság, Petr (referee) ; Večeřa, Pavel (referee)
The dissertation A Cultural Journalism in London Exile Periodicals during the Second World War approaches a hitherto unexplored topic of literary and journalistic work of Czechoslovak writers and journalists in London in the years 1939-1945. The London exile periodicals became a free publication platform for Czechoslovak refugees. At first, cultural journalism began to appear in the cultural sections of London exile newspapers published in the Czech language Čechoslovák [Czechoslovak] and Mladé Československo [Young Czechoslovakia], however, the most important work appeared in cultural magazines after 1941; it was the literary magazine Obzor [Horizon], the cyclostyled monthly Kulturní zápisník [Cultural Notebook] and the English-language quarterly magazine Review. The research of all available issues of these three cultural periodicals between the years 1941-1945 consists (apart from a quantitative overview of authors) primarily of a qualitative analysis of the most important topics that were written about. Finally, the dissertation presents some of the important journalistic and literary personalities in London's cultural magazines.
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Without a trace
Pfann, Martin ; Babáková, Bernardeta (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
Without a trace explores the possibilities of working with the so-called memory of landscape, which I understand as a certain open, ongoing and changing composition of narratives, motifs, people and objects of different origins and different natures. These components and sources of memory all relate to the period of World War II and in particular to the theme of anti-fascist partisan resistance. The resulting intermedia work was preceded by field research, during which I gathered a wealth of material on the subject that led me to create a kind of alternative cartography. The map and the educational trail through the landscape of Vysočina, supported by text in the form of an audioguide, are the formats of the resulting work and an attempt to break away from the great simplistic narratives of war, partisans and resistance. They focus on the small stories of the actors of the resistance, not only Czech and Soviet partisans and refugees, but also local residents. The resulting format guides the user through the physical landscape and connects it to different interpretations of its history. My own version of the landscape memory is admittedly also influenced by my personal experiences from my childhood in Vysočina.
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Soloomons Daughters
Brůčková, Kamila ; Prokůpek, Tomáš (referee) ; Rathouský, Luděk (advisor)
The Solomon's daughters comic brings a new concept to the topic of witch-hunting. It is situated in the period before and during World War II, consciously working with associations with the time that is only mediated by literature and film to most people these days. Although some topics concerning humanity and cruelty are still emerging, we perceive this period with a certain distance and a comprehensive evaluation. And precisely because of how clear and familiar the facts are, we can now afford to work with the environment and that time mostly as a backdrop that offers us certain opportunities for story development and aesthetic integrity.
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The theme of the Holocaust conveyed to pupils of younger school age at primary school level through work with a book
Velčovská, Tereza ; Laufková, Veronika (advisor) ; Komberec, Filip (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse appropriate literature containing the topic of the Holocaust and to sensitively convey the topic to pupils of younger school age. The topic of the Holocaust is very challenging and requires a special approach, especially when dealing with younger pupils. Therefore, the first chapter of the theoretical part focuses on the characteristics of the younger school-age child, his cognitive, emotional and value development. Next, the theoretical part focuses on the characteristics of literature for children and young people, its functions and typical genres. It also gets to the definition of the theme of the Holocaust in the Framework Curriculum for Primary Education and discusses the theme of the Holocaust in literature for children and youth. The final chapter of the theoretical part first defines reading literacy and its development. In the context of literacy development, the chapter characterizes the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking program and describes selected methods of this program that will be used later in the research part of the thesis. The practical part is divided into several parts. The first part is devoted to the methodology of action research. In the next part, a pre-test is designed to determine the level of awareness of the topic of the...
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Socioeconomic consequences of Japanese American internment in the United States during World War II
Vojtuš, Michal ; Anděl, Petr (advisor) ; Smetana, Vít (referee)
Socioeconomic consequences of Japanese American internment in the United States during World War II Abstract This bachelor thesis describes the consequences of wartime internment of Japanese Americans in the USA. It is concerned with short- and long-term socioeconomic effects of the incarceration. The first part of the thesis introduces Japanese immigration to the United States and the struggle of the pacific states to reduce it. The next chapter informs the reader about the internment itself, including its causes, process and the reasons of its termination. The third part is concerned with the socioeconomic status of the community between the two world wars. The main focus of the chapter is to tell why Japanese Americans chose agriculture and small farming over other professional fields. The socioeconomic consequences of the internment are analyzed in the main chapter. The study reflects the short- and long-term effect of incarceration on Japanese Americans. The conclusion overviews the findings of the thesis and also provides a quick summary of the redress movement which achieved a formal apology and financial compensation to the survivors of the internment. The main focus of the work is to analyze the post-internment shift from agricultural occupations to other fields, to review the economic losses and...
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Das "deutsche Prag" 1939-1945. Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der besetzten Hauptstädte Europas
Lohmann, Nina ; Křen, Jan (advisor) ; Puttkamer, Joachim (referee) ; Schmiechen-Ackermann, Detlef (referee)
anglicky The PhD thesis Das "deutsche Prag" 1939-1945. Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der besetzten Hauptstädte Europas deals with the German occupation of Prague before and during World War II in the context of current research on the National-socialist occupation of Europe. The so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia has been somewhat on the sidelines of current trends in international historiography as has the history of Prague in the Twentieth century. The thesis therefore first sketches out the broader research context as well as the roots for German occupation policy in the former Czechoslovak capital city, referring to the once prominent position of the German minority in Prague. One main focus of the thesis is then to try and analyse the (changing) structure and the population movement of the Germans in Prague during the years of occupation. In a next step, examples are given on how the German occupation regime tried to consolidate and expand the Germans' position in the city, aiming for an eventual re-modeling of the urban structure in terms of a "Germanisation" of the Bohemian capital. A chapter on the final collapse and dissolution of "German Prague" concludes the study.
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