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Effect of the environment on the dynamic properties of simple parts
Nováková, Soňa ; Himr, Daniel (referee) ; Habán, Vladimír (advisor)
The dynamic characteristics of the object are influenced by the changes of the envi-ronment. The objective of this report is to examine how the changes of the environment influ-ence the dynamic characteristics of the object. The main aim is to compare the natural fre-quencies of the object when suspended and then actuated when being surrounded by air and submerged in water. The object in question is a cylindrical pipe, which was gradually short-ened during the experiment. These changes in size also affected the natural frequencies and the mode shape, which is discussed as well. The results of the experimental modal analysis are compared to calculations run in ANSYS software.
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Analysis of Break Event Point
Hejmala, Jan ; Nováková, Soňa (referee) ; Škapa, Stanislav (advisor)
This bachelor work is concerned with analys of brek ebeny point in the copany called D-Ex limited s.r.o. On the basis of break ebeny point analysis in relation to evalution of economic situation in the copany.Implementation of whole the improvement suggestion will take efect in expansion of profit of the company.
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Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy
Dodevska, Iva ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee) ; Dahinden, Janine (referee)
European Joint Doctorate "Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges" (MOVES) Univerzita Karlova and Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 DISSERTATION Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy Iva Dodevska, M.A. ABSTRACT Amidst heated debates on immigration and "migrant integration", the European Union becomes an increasingly relevant actor, where important resources are earmarked for the implementation of civic integration measures, as well as for producing "scientific evidence" to guide policy. Simultaneously, a prolific scholarship attempts to understand, measure and compare how and whether immigrants are "integrated into society", often in the effort to remain "policy-relevant". This study joins other critical works that draw attention to the ways "integration" is debated, legislated, conceptualized, monitored, evaluated, and ultimately, normalized as a mode of governance. Situated at the interstices of migration studies, European studies, and the social studies of science, the dissertation examines the role of scientific research, EU policy, and research-policy knowledge infrastructures in shaping the "immigrant integration" paradigm in Europe. Interested primarily in integrationism as a technique of power, I take a decolonial and genealogical approach that...
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The Development of Mimetic Desire towards Latent Conflict in the Work of Katherine Mansfield
Nováčková, Zuzana ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
Thesis abstract Using Aristotelian notion of imitative behaviour and René Girard's theory of mimetic desire, several stories by Katherine Mansfield are analysed in order to demonstrate the development of mimetic desire together with its implications. The analysis follows the negative aspects of mimesis: the problems it causes in relationships, as well as the positive aspects including the self-knowledge. Since Mansfield's stories do not correspond fully to Girard's theory, the analysis explores a specific way of dealing with mimetic desire: keeping the conflict latent. At first, the stories about childhood offer an insight into Aristotelian concept of mimesis - imitative behaviour being a natural and pleasing human activity that is best observed in children's plays. The stories show how children choose their models, how they comprehend the world that surrounds them, especially the interpersonal and social codes, and how important is imagination in their mimetic activities. The analysis proceeds from natural imitation to the origins of mimetic desire, focusing on two modes of mediation and on the process of realization of one's own self-authenticity. The search for self-authenticity is possible due to external or internal mediation of desire. The transition from one type to the other is explained by the...
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Supplementary reading in grammar school TEFL. The introduction of the concept of teaching reading-related skills in the Czech Republic
Borecká, Markéta ; Mothejzíková, Jarmila (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
Teaching supplementary reading in the English language at Czech grammar schools seems to be seriously underestimated due to the prevailing communicative aims of teaching foreign languages in general. If students do come across some supplementary reading materials which teachers bring for them, these are most likely to be articles from magazines which are then used for reading round the class, practising reading comprehension or speaking about the text in the time left after the obligatory subject matter has been covered. Still, most students seem to enjoy supplementary reading. It seems however, that they do not appreciate supplementary reading so much for the benefits which it might bring to their English language improvement. Rather, they appreciate the escape which supplementary reading provides from the routine of the textbook - the obligatory course material. Compared to textbooks which comprise the grammar and vocabulary that students need to learn in order to succeed in examinations, the role of supplementary reading is second-class and students are not willing to dedicate too much time and effort to it outside classroom. At the same time, teachers confirm the minor role of secondary reading by using techniques aimed primarily at the development of language skills and not setting any other meaningful...
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Gender Portrayal in Maria Edgeworth's Novels
Burešová, Zuzana ; Horová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
This thesis presents an in-depth analysis of the gender portrayal and their mutual inter-relations in Maria Edgeworth's novels that is based on a comparative reading of Castle Rackrent (1800), Belinda (1801), Ennui (1809), The Absentee (1812) and Helen (1834). The thesis focuses on the recurrent themes and qualities the author explores through her male and female characters. The introductory chapters establish the historical and literary context for Edgeworth's novels and provides an explanation for the chosen chronological order of the publication of the novels. Then, the thesis is divided into five main chapters, each of which is dedicated to a discussion of one novel. The individual sections include an analysis of the characters in relation to their gender roles, contemporary social attitudes and the gradual development that is connected to Edgeworth's own growth as a writer.
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"A Great Secret Bias": Mapping Bisexuality in Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Cherkasova, Anastasiia ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Horová, Miroslava (referee)
The research will focus on the depiction of bisexuality in 18th century literature. Despite being one of the important categories in the contemporary Queer Discourse, bisexuality still seems to be overlooked in today's cultural scene or criticized for being too ambiguous or unclear. This is prominently featured in some novels that are today considered as being involved with the depictions of homoerotic relations, even though many of them might be in a more nuanced reading described as dealing with more complex, even bisexual connections. The thesis aims to trace back bisexuality and show its omnipresence in 18th -century literature, the time period when nonstandard sexual identities started to acquire visibility. Such reading might shed some light on the nature of sexuality, which is fluid, polymorphous and complex, instead of being regarded as fixed and defined. The thesis encompasses the groundbreaking theories of Michel Foucault and other theorists, however, it has as its aim the expansion of this framework and inclusion of the still very intangible phenomenon of bisexuality. Maria Edgeworth's novel Belinda, John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure as well as Charlotte Charke's A Narrative Of The Life Of Mrs. Charlotte Charke will be the template on which the...
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Alternatives to the Married State in the Works of Margaret Oliphant
Pěkníková, Kristina ; Poncarová, Petra Johana (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
Thesis Abstract This thesis focuses on the depictions of unmarried women in the works of Margaret Oliphant. One of the most prolific writers of the Victorian era, Oliphant has historically been neglected by scholars, omitted from the British literary canon and largely left out of the discourse surrounding the depiction of female independence in nineteenth-century fiction, in spite of her novels' featuring themes more radically feminist than those of many of her better-known contemporaries. Focusing on those of Oliphant's novels still in print, namely Miss Marjoribanks, Hester and Kirsteen, this thesis explores how the novelist approached the woman's position in Victorian society with regards to her participation in the institution of marriage and the labour market, paying special attention to Oliphant's treatment of the Victorian concept of the separate spheres in her work. The first chapter explains how Oliphant's own experiences of challenging Victorian gender roles contributed to her creation of subversive fictional heroines while simultaneously restricting her from openly proclaiming support for women's rights movements in her periodical writings. The following chapters take a close look at the three novels under analysis, examining the motivations of each of their protagonists in turn, with the...
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The question of social and class relationships in the British social-problem novel
Miczková, Aneta ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
The principal aim of this thesis is to explore social and class relationships in British social-problem novel as seen through the eyes of three prominent Victorian writers including Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens. The industrial novel emerged from the problems arising from the rapid process of the Industrial Revolution, which is closely described, together with its severe impact on the lives of British inhabitants, in Chapter Two. Apart from the origin of class antagonism, the second chapter also depicts the responses of the oppressed and disadvantaged working class to the ruthlessness and greediness of the industrial manufacturers in the form of the Luddite uprising, the Chartists movement and independent strikes and riots which often turned into verbally or physically violent actions leading to further deterioration of working relations. The chapters Three to Five offer the views of the above- mentioned authors on such distorted relations, and each of them, through the characters of their books, represents a possible solution leading to their improvement. The truth is, however, that even though the opinions of each of the three authors were influenced by different political or theological theories they believed in, or by their very personal experience, all of them...
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The Role of Women in William Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies
Válková, Michaela ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Znojemská, Helena (referee)
THESIS ABSTRACT The thesis critically examines the historical and cultural circumstances of women in early modern England and the role of women in Shakespeare's Roman tragedies. In early modern England, men are said to have been participating in the public sphere of the political discourse and women were relegated to the domestic sphere; henceforth, the role of women in Shakespeare's Roman plays tends to be interpreted as supportive because of the plays' dominant political focus. To challenge the prevailing discourse, I consider female characters in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and Antony and Cleopatra. My thesis argues that even though the Roman plays focus on the political, public sphere which tends to be the domain of men, women mostly actively participate, or express desire to actively participate, in the Roman plays' plots, philosophical contemplations, and political scheming. Cleopatra, Volumnia, Portia, Calpurnia, and Tamora are such characters. Only the less central female characters may embody the passive ideal of a woman confined in the domestic sphere, as exemplified by Lavinia, Virgilia, and Octavia. The findings show that women were recommended to stay in the domestic sphere, but many of them, especially upper-class ladies, participated actively in the political...
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