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The portrayal of the Indigenous community in Sherman Alexie's The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Skála, David ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
This thesis aims to analyse the portrayal of Native American people in a semi-autobiographic novel The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) by Sherman Alexie and to compare and contrast it with the current living conditions inside reservations designated for the Native American inhabitants. The practical part analyses the story of a young Native American named Arnold Spirit, often referred to as Junior, who lives in The Spokane Indian Reservation and encounters racism, poverty, ostracism and other troubles associated with ethnic minorities. The character's story is analysed from the perspective of various types of segregation, established in the theoretical part, he and his people routinely experience. The subsequent comparison of the novel and the reality is closely connected to the research from the theoretical part which dealt with the information from academic articles as well as authentic resources, such as community websites of the Indigenous community. The practical part essentially attempts to interpret the novel from the perspective of the research presented in the preceding part if the work. KEYWORDS Sherman Alexie, Native Americans, Indian reservation, adolescence, segregation
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Credit process and metohods of choice of approval level
Skála, David ; Mejstřík, Michal (advisor) ; Honnerová, Jana (referee)
This thesis analyses the credit process in banks. Specifically, it describes the credit process running from the very beginning when a client asks for a bank loan to the final moment when he/she pays the last installment. In addition, the author explains individual steps made by banks throughout the entire repayment period and their measures adopted at the moment when a client is unable to settle his/her loan. The thesis also includes calculations used in assessing the profitability of granted credits. Furthermore, it deals with methods of distributing credits to individual approval levels, i.e. if a credit can be approved directly in a client's branch or whether the approval must be given at a nationwide level. It offers a hypothesis that the standard method of determining these approval levels is ineffective and proposes a new distribution method. In the last part, both different methods are, at first theoretically, compared with each other to be later followed by an empiric analysis of effects of both methods based on an available data sample. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Credit process and metohods of choice of approval level
Skála, David ; Mejstřík, Michal (advisor) ; Honnerová, Jana (referee)
This thesis analyses the credit process in banks. Specifically, it describes the credit process running from the very beginning when a client asks for a bank loan to the final moment when he/she pays the last installment. In addition, the author explains individual steps made by banks throughout the entire repayment period and their measures adopted at the moment when a client is unable to settle his/her loan. The thesis also includes calculations used in assessing the profitability of granted credits. Furthermore, it deals with methods of distributing credits to individual approval levels, i.e. if a credit can be approved directly in a client's branch or whether the approval must be given at a nationwide level. It offers a hypothesis that the standard method of determining these approval levels is ineffective and proposes a new distribution method. In the last part, both different methods are, at first theoretically, compared with each other to be later followed by an empiric analysis of effects of both methods based on an available data sample. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Evaluation of Dietary Preferences in Students of Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague
Skála, David ; Heller, Jan (advisor) ; Petr, Miroslav (referee)
The quality of nutrition has essential influence on health, mental comfort and sport performance. Social diseases (high blood preassure, ischemic heart desease, diabetes and cancer) are mostly the result of poor knowledge of nutrition rules. Nutrition of hobby and professional sportsmen has fundamental influence on quality and indurance of sport performance. Many sportsmen underestimate the importance of nutrition and therefore loose the opportunity to be well prepared for trainings and to reach ideal performance in competitions. Students of Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Charles University, in Prague, as a future coaches and people working in sport and physical education area should be well educatd in the nutrition area and be able to use their knowledges and pass them on their trainees. The aim of this thesis was to find out what the nutrition knowledges and food preferences of university student are. Nutrition prerences of university students were not ideal. Only 68% consumed low-fat food. 48% of surveyed ate low-fibre food. Intake of cereal crops and vegetables were 8% under standard. Consumption of dairy products and meat was higher. Fat and plain sugar intake was over 6% higher. Nutrition knowledges of examined ensemble were weak. Only 35% knew proportional representation of...
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Impact of the customer satisfaction and other indicators on company`s market share
Dvořáková, Monika ; Sedláček, Jiří (advisor) ; Skala, David (referee)
In the present hypercompetitive market environment of car producers established especially at the developed west european markets is very difficult to gain new customers and increase the market share. The car producing companies have to build and increase customer loyalty to ensure the sustainable growth of market share in the future. One possibility how to improve customer's loyality to brand is to provide the highest standard at both sales and service department and carefully monitor the customer satisfaction. From the satisfaction and performance indicators of the car producing company is possible to construct a mathematical model producing the market share in a given country as an output. Key indikators of customer satisfaction, sales and service and also the macroeconomical data has been used as the inputs for the model. As a target market for my analysis has been chosen Germany. This thesis presents a set of recommendations and proposals, whose implementation should ensure the improvement of the market share of the given brand on german market. The recommendation does not include only the tips for improvement of the key indicators but it also gives the overview of how to make the marketing strategy more efficient using Customer relationship management.
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Low-cost Business Intelligence Solution for Small and Medium Business
Machander, Aleš ; Šalamon, Tomáš (advisor) ; Skala, David (referee)
This thesis is concerned with use of business intelligence in small and medium business. The main issue is to find such solutions, which are suited to needs and requirements of this type of business. The most suitable method of implementation of business intelligence is according to outputs of this thesis a development of own solution in low costs. On the contrary integrated solutions delivered by the big players on this market are too complex and very expensive for small and medium business. Web-based and SaaS solutions are interesting to these companies, but their support and provided services are not in sufficient level in Czech Republic. To reach all these goals there were analyzed information focused on possibilities and needs of small and medium business and consequently was performed analysis of business intelligence market. The gained outputs were verified in practical part, which is based on project of implementation of business intelligence solution to specific small company. Resources for the final figure of this project are mainly the interviews with shareholder. The main contributions of this thesis are previously mentioned analysis and project of implementation of business intelligence solution. By the help of these studies was found a suitable way, how to implement a business intelligences solution to small and medium business in low costs. Another contribution is in gained opinions and points of view of managers of these companies on implementation of business intelligence.
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