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State - country - nation: The loyalty of Moravian Czechs and Germans
Řepa, Milan
This study traces in parallel the transformation of the collective consciousness and loyalties of the Czech and German populations in Moravia in the 19th century. It focuses on various forms of collective consciousness – provincial patriotism, Austrian state patriotism, Czech and German nationalism. It looks at how they relate to other forms of solidarity or loyalty, such as those based on class, religion, or region and at how their formation was influenced by important events and historical processes, beginning with Enlightenment absolutism, the Napoleonic Wars, the revolutionary years 1848/1849, the evolution of civil society in the 1860s and 1870s, the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870), and ending with the diversification of political life in the late 19th century.
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The lords of Lobkowicz and Hassenstein in the late middle ages
Gavenda, Lukáš ; Doležalová, Eva (referee) ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor)
The modern prince family of Lobkowicz243 has its roots in North Bohemia several hundred years ago. This diploma work deals with the general history and cultural meaning of this family in Late Middle Ages, concretely in the course of 15th century and at the beginning of the following century. This work consists of three chapters. The first one is concerned with the history of the Lobkowiczs in its first five generations (14th-16th centuries). Rare information about the first known members of the family are dated to the end of the rule of the Emperor Charles IV. The Lobkowiczs belonged to lower nobility and were known as lairds of Újezd.244 Martin (commonly Mareš) of Újezd had three sons: Blaze (Blažej or Blažek), Wenceslas (Václav) and Nicolas (Mikuláš). The oldest Blaze died early and Wenceslas was a priest, so it was only the youngest son Nicolas who could secure the maintenance of the family. Nicolas of Lobkowicz, a man of high intellectual skills, a talented diplomat and politician, gained confidence of Wenceslas IV, King of Bohemia, and kept a close connection to the royal court. It was him who bought the village and fort Lobkovice in 1410, that gave name to the family. A few years later he had also gained the castle Hassenstein in North-West Bohemia and Hluboká in South Bohemia, which supported the...
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Strategic management in museum sphere
Multanova, Aleksandra ; Tripes, Stanislav (advisor) ; Havlová, Lenka (referee)
This bachelor thesis is about strategy in museum sphere. The purpose of theoretical part of this thesis is to give readers an introduction about basic terminology concerning to strategic management. This part acquaints with definition of strategy, determinates with phases of strategic management (form creation to implementation) and also devotes to SWOT-analysis. Theoretical part is ended by chapter about development of strategic management in museum, from the beginning of society to our time and about uninterrupted changes of his functions. The purpose of practical part of this bachelor thesis is to look on application of strategy. With the help of interview and personal watching, in this part will be consider an importance of strategy for museum sphere, difference between two institutions, and what museum entail, when it has strategy or the other way around, when strategy is absent.
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Legal policy of genetically modified organisms and Consumer Protection
Skálová, Petra ; Neděla, Radek (advisor) ; Bačina, Jan (referee)
This Bachelor thesis is focused on genetic engineering and its results. The aim is to familiarize the reader with the issue of biotechnology and its products, which are genetically modified organisms. The introduction of the work explains the basic concepts and describes the history of the biotechnology and genetic modifications in general. In this part are also listed examples of genetic modifications including information about testing and practical application in the Czech Republic. This scientific branch is in the very beginning and there are still ongoing series of programs and research in order to create new plants and animals. The second chapter briefly summarizes the positive and negative aspects of the use of genetic modification. The third chapter is focused on the legal regulation of this issue. The first subsection summarizes the Czech legislation, the second one summarizes European legislative shared by member states of the EU. Fundamental international organisations which are dealing with genetic engineering are not omitted in following subsection. Some international agreements are also mentioned. The last, it means fourth, chapter focuses on the consumers, not only as an object of the protection by government and international organisations, but also in terms of their attitude to genetically modified organisms used in the production process of food intended for the market. Subsections describe the issues of labelling GM-products and lack of awareness of people, they mention movements and non-profit organisations fighting against using GMOs in the products intended for human consumption and their use in general. This issue is connected with many risks including possible side-effects on human health. This section also describes general attitude of the consumers themselves to GM-products.
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Wolfgang Koeppen's novels: "Littérature engagée" and experimental prose
Spěváčková, Tereza ; Tvrdík, Milan (referee) ; Stromšík, Jiří (advisor)
This dissertation discusses the post-war trilogy of the German writer Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996): Tauben im Gras (1951), Das Treibhaus (1953) and Der Tod in Rom (1954). The first part of this paper gives a political-cultural concise of the years 1945-1965, with an emphasis on the fifties. At that time Germany goes through the process of the economic-mirage and according to this the Germans get back their lost self-assurance. By the same mail is increasingly obvious, that the vision of a complete beginning failed and that the conservative policy of Adenauer follows the beaten track of the pre-war period. From urgent political questions of the year 1945 the German interest turns over to security their own prosperity, middleclass comfort. The horrors of war seem to be forgotten and instead of the "collective guilt" comes the "collective amnesia". This fundamental change didn't stay unnoticed. A critical reflection happend mainly through the young authors united in the Gruppe 47. Beside their line and on the edge of the contemporary literary events Wolfgang Koeppen delivers his loud protest against the post-war development of the German society. In the following part, which sets up the crux of the whole paper, is given an analysis of the individual novels in the context of the time of their appearance and the...
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Vietnamese employment in the Czech Republic
Leová, Thi Viet Anh ; Legnerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Quigley, Martin John David (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on implementation and adaptation of Vietnamese immigrants to the Czech labor market including all legislative conditions regarding employing of the Vietnamese, starting by explaining the meanings of basic terms all the way to complex legal aspects which are crucial for legal functioning on the employer's side. Business activities of this minority are also mentioned as well as Czech-Vietnamese relations since their beginnings including bilateral treaties. For the practical part, interviews and comparison of two generations were chosen.
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Theravada Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka: past and present
Skála, Ondřej ; Štěpánová, Irena (referee) ; Kašpar, Oldřich (advisor)
The diploma thesis presented here informs the academic public on a specific social group of Theravadian monks in Sri Lanka. The paper focuses mainly on providing a detailed survey of the present situation of Theravadian forest monks and their relations to the main-stream modern society of Sri Lanka. The author of the thesis presents the findings, which he collected during his field research between October 2004 and September 2006. The method he had chosen, the "living-in research" enabled him to become a full member of the monastic community. Therefore, besides from being an involved observer of the examined phenomena, he was able to participate in the action himself. The synchronous aspect of this work consists in a detailed examination of the present situation of the individual subjects and relations among them. The position of a monk (bhikkhu) and that of the monastic community (Sangha) in Sri Lanka traces back to 2000 years ago and the mutual monk-laymen relations have undergone many changes. For this reason, a part of the thesis is dedicated to monitoring the development of the Sangha and its position from the very beginning to the present times. Within this part, the author goes into more depth when describing the dynamic phenomena related to the culmination of colonialism in the second half of 19th...
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The role of Italy during the Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003
Maiello, Francesco ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The thesis is focused on the Italian military participation in the American military intervention into Iraq in the 2003. There are summarized in the theoretical part the main characteristics of realism as a theory of international relations and a possible explanation of the intervention from the neo-realist point of view. The practical part begins with a summary of international missions with Italian military participation and describes the experience which Italian army acquired in these missions. Other chapters are devoted to the opinion held by the Catholic Church and Italian government on the intervention and the role of the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on the government decision of supporting the intervention. The thesis is also devoted to the consequences of Italian involvement in the Operation Iraqi Freedom on its military doctrine.
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Swiss Neutrality at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Krčmářová, Michaela ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the neutrality of Switzerland. Switzerland is a state which has been practicing the politics of neutrality for the longest to the world. The introductory section defines the terms of neutrality, security and war. The second part is devoted to the historical development of the neutrality of Switzerland. Because of the almost five hundred-year practice of neutrality the understanding of history of Swiss neutrality is important for its current form. Neutrality is not an unchanging concept, but it evolves with the development of society and the world. It also responds to some major world events, such as the First and Second World War or the Cold War. The neutrality experienced big changes at the turn of the 90s, after the end of the Cold War. The developing relationship of Switzerland with certain international organizations which agree with its neutrality is shown in this thesis as well. Doctrinal documents in which the Swiss neutrality is enshrined are also included.
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Project management in selected company
POKORNÝ, Radek
This work deals with project management in chosen company. It has two parts. The first part is theoretical, which is focused to theoretical treatment of the subject. It explains what is the project, management of projects, organizations of projects, processes of project management, what is target of project, communication, control, changes and risks and more. In the practical part I focused to concrete company and project management and than I analyzed concrete project. Name of the mentioned company is OHL ŽS, a.s. It is company from Spain, which acts all over the world. In the Czech Republic has the base in Brno. This company has several divisions and every of them is focused to different professional architecture. I have chosen division of structural engineering. This division builds all kinds of buildings. It could be construction of new buildings or reconstruction. To analysis of chosen project I used various business documents, contracts with investor or suppliers, document which include billing, timetable. I especially used my experience with projects of this company, and I was part of this project. Name of this project is Reconstruction of cladding including replacement windows and insulation. During the analysis of project I found a couple major gaps. If we could avoid these gaps, we could increase profit. These graphs is especially in management. At the beginning there were appointed two temporary construction managers. They doesn't care about result project, because they knew that they will not be to the end of the project. These gaps are because there is missing motivation system. Project manager can´t affect results of employees. It doesn´t depend on performance of employees, they always has the same wages. For elimination of these gaps I proposed several suggestions for improvement. The first suggestion is modification and extension of motivation system. New motivation system include personal evaluation. This evaluation depends on performance of employee. The second part is bonus from over profit. The next suggestion is make a new working position. This position would take care about controlling and project documentation. During the building project, especially at the end is construction manager very busy. It depend of decision of construction 63 manager what kind of activity will have prefer. Project documentation and administration or controlling of building works. If they are doing everything correct and technology are respect. Suggested position would take care about invoices, real work, which is done, project documentation, controlling of budget. The third suggestion is purchase of small machinery such as chipping hammers and drills. At this time they rent all devices. Rent is higher than purchase price. The last suggestion is use credit to restoration of fleet. At this time they have obsolete fleet, because the bought all cars by cash. It is not conveniently.
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