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Impact of International Trade in Coffee on Producing Developping Countries
Bartůňková, Lenka ; Steinmetzová, Dana (advisor) ; Antal, Jarolím (referee)
In the second half of the 20th century many new subjects entered the coffee producing business attracted by high coffee prices on the regulated market. When the regulations were lifted in 1989 prices dropped to a 30 year minimum. Low prices now have a negative impact on small producers who cannot compete with large plantation production because they do not attain economies of scales as they are growing coffee on small plots using traditional methods. When thinking about solutions to the current situation, we must not forget that these small farmers often produce coffee of higher quality and more importantly that their fields are areas of high biodiversity taking up the function of dissappearing rainforests. International Coffee Organization looks for global solutions like imposing higher quality standards on traded coffee. Individual consumers can help resolve the situation by buying coffee from small farmers whose production techniques are helping to conserve biodiversity. Such coffee can be found under the labels Shade Grown or Organic. Fair Trade certificate does not tell us anything about environmental protection, it is however still better than the purchase of none certified coffee. In Fair Trade coffee usually has a country of origin. By purchasing that coffee consumer can promote coffee production in that particular country. Ethiopia is highly dependent on coffee. It is also coffee's original home, meaning that it is also home to wild coffee plants and coffee plants with genes that can not be found anywhere else. Wild coffee plants are often found in forests that are however dissappearing fast. For the future of coffee growing it is necessary to conserve the original coffee population for generations to come. By purchasing Ethiopian coffee the consumer helps support the whole sector and raise interest in protection of coffee forests.
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Aspects of tradition and innovation in D. Milhaud's string quartets nos. 1-9
Solodovnikova, Tatiana ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Havlík, Jaromír (referee) ; Douša, Eduard (referee)
Restoration of a whole picture of a musicallife of the XX century and a multilaterally research of activity and creativity of the personalities forrning music's unique shape, help to better understand the music progress. It is also necessary to study and to compare an extensive musical material, in particular of chamber music, the compositions of the different composers in a genre of string quartet. Many works are devoted to life and activity of D. Milhaud (1892-1974) as one of the most prominent French composers of the first half of the XX century, but not all his heritage was studied in detail. The genre of string quartet can be a subject for extensive research because it is the most important part of the work of this composer within years 1912-1951 and consequently that string quartet reflects the composer's style. Insufficient interest in Milhauďs chamber music in the academic literature is connected with necessity to appreciate at the certain stage the leading genres of his work, such as an opera, a ballet, a cantata, a symphonic music; thereby Milhauďs quartets are not unequivocally valued in academic literature. The mam subject in this dissertation is a question of tradition and innovaton in Milhauďs quartets Nos. 1-9 written in a fairly long period of Milhauďs life in years 1912- 1935, based on the...
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Correspondence analysis application in MS Excel program
Ganajová, Michaela ; Řezanková, Hana (advisor) ; Pecáková, Iva (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis was to create independently an application, automating a correspondence analysis calculation using MS Excel and taking advantage of VBA programming language. The application was then used to analyse Slovak banking sector. The created application is based on macro sets which can be split up to two parts. The first part produces a contingency table and converts it into a format usable in the second part. Then there is executed the Correspondence Analysis calculation itself. Supplement Matrix is being used, that allows to discharge functions from matrix and linear algebra. The application allows to process any matrix dimension. Dialog window offers four normalization types, shortened and also full output and it is possible to display row or column variable categories, eventually both. The analysis subject was to find out which of the products are typical for considered banks and for which clients, divided into age categories, is attractive particular bank and/or product. A starting point is a product usage data matrix at a particular bank. There was made a conclusion, that it is possible to divide banks into more traditional or modern type institutions and also that each bank has a typical product.
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Positive and Negative Aspects of the Selected Forms of Governmen - Parliamentary Republic vs. Presidential Republic - Comparative Analysis
Brabcová, Šárka ; Stracený, Josef (referee) ; Sádovský, Stanislav (advisor)
The diploma thesis in question is focused on the selected forms of government: the parliamentary and the presidential republic. Before a comparative analysis of particular examples of states is done, other areas concerned with the topic have to be described. The first chapter depicts the state through its features, functions and forms. Then two essential forms of government - the monarchy and the republic - are specified in the historical and present context. The next chapter focuses on the model of separation of powers among the executive, legislative and judicial power, and specifies the relations between them. These relations shape the factual form of the government. Except the parliamentary and presidential system, other types of government are introduced, for example the dualistic monarchy, the semi-presidential republic etc. The aim of this work is to define, specify and compare the relations between the legislature and the executive in the Czech Republic and the United States of America. The result of the comparison is not evident because it is not possible to say which form is better. Both forms have their positive and negative aspects, it primarily depends on the historical background, traditions, political culture of the country, and these features set the base for the factual system. The last...
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The symbolism of flowers in the Hindu ritual
Duda, Petr ; Marková, Dagmar (referee) ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor)
Plants and flowers play a relatively important role in the Hindu ritual and the elaborated system of rules concerning the suitability and unsuitability of particular flowers for particular gods offers an interesting subject of study in the field of ritual symbolism. This thesis attempts to describe the use of plants in the Hindu pj ritual and their possible symbolic functions. After summing up the present knowledge about the origin of the worship of deities in India in the last centuries of the period of Brahmanism within the Vedic domestic ritual tradition and stating the general similarities and differences between the temple and the domestic versions of the studied ritual, the thesis focuses on the latter, simpler version. A comparison of several primary materials has shown that the structure of the individual ritual acts during the ceremony is fixed and identical for all deities. The pjs for the individual gods and goddesses primarily differ on the level of the pronounced mantras. However, some specifics can be found with the offerings as well, while the most extensive instructions concerning the suitable and unsuitable offerings are those dealing with flowers. The analysis of more than three dozens of such passages has shown that besides a group of flowers which can be used for the worship of deities...
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The concept of woman on the background of social change at the turn of the 19. century (1895-1905)
Košutová, Klára ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee) ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor)
The paper is focused on studying the traditional concept of woman in view of its conflict with the gradually enforced demands of women within the feminist movement. The main demands of women on their way to coequality were the right to higher education, free choice of occupation, and unsegregated legal status. As they struggle for their rights, the traditional concept of woman, which places her in a role of domesticity, is used as a strong instrument against their wishes. A woman is only supposed to be a wife, mother and a housewife and she is considered incapable of and unfit to gain any other position in society. The concept of unequal status of a woman particularly governed middle class life, depicting a specific glamour in the role of an ideal woman and family life. Social changes brought up by industrial revolution and upheavals in demographic equilibrium where the percentage of women alarmingly outnumbered that of men confronted society with the task of increasing quantity of women left without possibility of subsistence, either by occupation or marrying a male- provider. Hostility toward the new claims of women was based on men's fear of competition and an unwillingness to share heretofore exclusively men's domains of power; the higher education system, the labor market and the right to vote. It...
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Innovative methods and forms of work in teaching Czech language at lower secondary schools
Štěpáník, Stanislav ; Bušová, Lucie (advisor) ; Chejnová, Pavla (referee)
Diploma thesis Innovative Methods and Forms of Work in Teaching Czech Language at Lower Secondary Schools divides methods and forms of work into two categories - traditional and innovative. It defines the space these methods get in real teaching, and it gives a theoretical description of the innovative ones. The real state, as seen by pupils and teachers, is verified by a survey which was carried out at lower secondary schools. The work also compares and contrasts methods and forms of work which are used in teaching English as a mother tongue at schools in the UK, but also which are used in teaching English as a foreign language at Czech schools. The practical part contains concrete lesson plans, in which innovative methods and forms of work are used.
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China and Africa: the partnership rediscovered and the implications for the European Union
Kopecká, Petra ; Adamcová, Lenka (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
China is becoming an increasingly important actor in international political and economic relations. The pace of Chinese economic growth triggers a progressively growing demand for natural resources. After launching the "open-door" policy in the Chinese modern history (which attracted the important sources of capital inflows), the Chinese government introduced a "go-out" strategy for the Chinese companies to integrate them into the global structures. This strategy has its direct impacts on developing countries, where the Chinese presence is apparent the most. China is cooperating with all of the developing regions; however, sixty-year long cooperation with Africa is outstanding in many ways. In this continent China has to encounter other traditional actors -- European Union above all, as Africa constitutes a centrepiece in European development cooperation policy. The aim of this master thesis is to describe the shape and evolution of long-term Sino-African relations into today's "strategic partnership", which is being regarded as "rediscovered" in this thesis, and to conclude with the implications for the EU policy. To achieve this, the thesis is divided into three chapters. First chapter deals with the theoretical basis for the shape of Sino-African relations, in broad terms of Chinese foreign policy towards developing countries. The second chapter looks onto actual, mainly economic and developmental, impacts of the Chinese "go-out" strategy on Africa. The thesis indicates the approach of the European Union to the rediscovered partnership.
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The regional policy of The Republic of Bulgaria
Petkova, Polina ; Wokoun, René (advisor) ; Tomešová, Jana (referee)
The European union is a team made of 27 players each of with a different capacity. Via the united regional policy the union determines the single states development direction. The common success depends on the harmonization of the national objects and the teamwork of each country. This diploma work is an analyzes the development of the regional policy of The Republic of Bulgaria, its starting point and processes during the years, while defining the present direction and priorities. A follow up through the "evolution" of the legal scope, administrative units and the strategic documents gives an overview of the country's progress in the regional development: an aria with no tradition in Bulgaria.
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Nunneries of Upper Lusatia between spiritual and secular power in the 16th and 17th century
Zdichynec, Jan ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor) ; Maur, Eduard (referee) ; Hrabová, Libuše (referee)
Convents of Upper Lusatia in the 16th and 17th century between sacral and secular power Out of the various religious and church structures of Upper Lusatia, the presented thesis focuses on the local women's religious Catholic houses, on the Cistercian convents of Marienthal and Marienstern, and the penitent sisters of Mary-Magdalene's convent in Lauban and on their domains. The period of interest is mostly 16th and 17th century. These abbeys are the only catholic institutions which have survived up to this day in the mainly protestant area. The introductory debate about monasteriologic research and about the possibilities of applying modern historical methods to the field are followed by an overview of the research dedicated to the area - both from the local and general German, or even Czech point of view. Careful analysis of the utilised resources follows. In assessing the factors that allowed the coexistence of institutions firmly tied to the Catholic Church and of the Protestant majority, it was first necessary to investigate the role of convents in the local society and to explore the earlier pre-reformation events. For the existence of monasteries of traditional orders was, in the early modern era, determined just as strongly by politics, (church) administration and by social and economical...
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