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Narration and rhetoric in crime movies
Majtánová, Martina ; Kladný, Tomáš (advisor) ; Charvát, Martin (referee)
The thesis Narration and Rhetoric in Crime Films is conceived as a formal analytical case study, which examines the object of legal movies, their genre specifics and narrative differences between detective stories and within the crime genre in general. The aim of the research is to demonstrate the way the narrative specifics define genres individually and in their mutual relations. Legal movies are examined not only through the theory of the genre, but also through a chosen narrative structure and with general narrative principles. The thesis concentrates on legal movies only and ignores the legal themes presented in the television series, as well as the studied sample are films exclusively from the american, respectively british production. The main researched film is Anatomy of a Murder (1959), another sample comprises films Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Paradine Case (1947), Inherit the Wind (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Keywords Legal films, courtroom drama, literary narratology, film narratology, narration, crime genre, detective story, fabula, syuzhet, hero's journey, Anatomy of a Murder, three act structure, narrative structure
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Press that serves the public? Survey of journals published by Prague's municipalities
Písačková, Kateřina ; Hájek, Roman (advisor) ; Krobová, Tereza (referee)
This master thesis deals with the phenomenon of journals published by local municipalities, defined in a recent amendment to the Press Act in the legal order of the Czech Republic as "journals of territorial administrative units". According to the press law the purpose of these journals is to deliver information about the self- governing unit while providing adequate space for presenting opinions and views of all ideological spectrum of the local council. These journals were recently criticized for being abused by the ruling political representation and being misused as a form of political PR rather than an independent news platform. My research is focused on their gradual professionalization that was recently encouraged by the changes in the Czech law. The research is based on a survey of editors of these journals. In the survey I investigated the background of the content production of these journals, various aspects of their organization, details about staff editors and their reflection on the topic, as well as control mechanisms that are set to ensure the statutory requirements of objectivity and impartiality. In addition to the survey, I also present a brief case study of the Hobulet magazine, published in the Prague 7 district, which is considered to be a progressive example of the genre. The...
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Analysis of the defects identified in the fire inspections performed within the State Fire Inspection of the Fire Rescue Department of South Bohemia for the years 2003 - 2012
KOŠŤÁL, Filip
The thesis on the topic Analysis of Faults Found in Fire Inspections Performed within Execution of State Fire Inspection by the Fire Brigade Rescue Corps of Southern Bohemia in 2003 2012 focuses on comparison of faults selected by gradual elimination from all the 700 fire inspections to final 150 complex fire inspections and classified per years in a ten-year comparison period. Follow-up inspections and thematic fire inspection were not used for the complex evaluation as they did not contain the necessary information. Six parameters were chosen from all the performed complex inspections containing 30 monitored facts of correctness and existence of documents of the inspected object and seven monitored facts from physical examination of the objects. These six parameters were subsequently compared. The aim of my thesis was to find out whether the numbers of the faults detected within execution of the state fire inspection were increasing in the individual categories. The theoretical part summarizes the basic legal norms applicable to the Fire Brigade Rescue Corps of the CR and to execution of the state fire inspection and some extensive legal norms related to the inspection activities or inspected subjects. Elaboration of the thesis topic required explanation of some terms like legal entity, private entrepreneur, fire inspection, state fire inspection and its integration in the Fire Brigade Rescue Corps of the CR. The chapter contains description of activities including graphs illustrating procedures related to execution of state fire inspection. A separate part is dedicated to fire protection history, formation of awareness of the history and to chronological arrangement of some key legal norms binding for the Fire Brigade Rescue Corps of the CR and execution of state fire inspection. It was for example necessary to present the rules governing execution of state fire inspection like professional competence of Fire Brigade Rescue Corps members and their identification at the place of inspection, to clarify the terms fire inspection plan and fire inspection programme. The final part of the theoretical base of the thesis contains the rules of behaviour of Fire Brigade Rescue Corps members performing state fire inspection at the inspected site and principles of interaction with people representing the inspected subject. The research methodology was chosen adequately to the topic dealt with. First archive materials from complex fire inspection records were studied and then the individual faults were qualitatively processed and categorized to faults in documentary part and physical defects. After that a selection of closer spectre of examined faults was performed and preparation of data for comparison. The faults of the individual years were compared in the monitored data and the danger index of the individual years was calculated. The concluding part of the thesis focused on presentation of the dependences of the detected faults of the individual years by means of tables and graphs. The results were mutually compared, classified, commented in detail in the discussion and elaborated into the overall image of the society. Dependence of the number of performed complex fire inspections on the number of detected faults was proven from the danger index and from graphic representation of its values.
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The insurance fraud issue in the Czech Republic
Svoboda, Lukáš ; Hejda, Jan (advisor) ; Bednář, Jan (referee)
The thesis is being concerned with one of the serious criminal acts causing each year damages worth hundrends of millions Czech crowns. The main aim of the thesis is to provide a complex view of the problems. The thesis analyses the issue from both legal and economic angle of view, deals with the insurance fraud typology and proves the theory by evidence of particular cases. The thesis thereinafter discovers causations of commiting insurance frauds and describes the insurence fraud abatment. In the end the thesis tries to disclose the weak points of the system of prevention, to point at them and to come up with the improvement suggestions and recommendations.
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Basic characteristics of pragmatically orientated linguistics
Šťastná, Kamila ; Mareš, Petr (referee) ; Pacovská, Jasňa (advisor)
The thesis describes the communication-pragmatic turn in linguistics, monitors the stimuli that resulted in pragmalinguistic research. Pragmatically oriented linguistics and its basic issues are characterized: speech acts, verbal communication strategy, argumentation in communication and nonverbal communication. The findings of selected topics are applied in analysing records of utterances. The thesis is concluded by assessing the relation between theoretical knowledge of pragmatic aspects of communication and real communication practice.
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Mobbing in the work environment
PIXA, David
The thesis deals with the phenomenon of psychological terror in the work environment and offers a compact view of this widespread social problem. The focus of the empirical research was quantitative survey aimed to discover the approximate dispositions of bullying in Czech workplaces. Data were gathered from a non-random convenience sample (N = 306; F = 66.0%) of anonymous workers through a modified online version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ-R). According to the self-labelling approach, 16.0% of the respondents had been (4.9% regularly; 11.1% occasionally) targets of workplace bullying during the past 6 months. The complementary behavioural method detected that 21.9% (11.4%) of the respondents had been subjected to at least one (two) of the negative acts on a weekly basis. The predominantly experienced negative acts had been work-related. The most prevalent source of workplace bullying was reported to be superiors (73.5%). There was no significant difference between males and females or the public and private sectors.
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The Register of Population Act No 133/2000 statute book, focussing on permanent residency and issues connected with so-called official addresss in the course of administering civil services and civil proceesings
Cibulková, Pavlína ; Kadlecová, Eva (advisor) ; Pavla, Pavla (referee)
The diploma thesis The Civil Registration under the Act 133/2000 Coll., focusing on the place of residence and the issue of official addresses in the exercise of state administration and civil proceedings is dealing with the population register since the origin of the right of domicile till the current legislative framework.
In the first part the terms are defined in theoretical level relating to the administrative procedure, records of citizens and legal framework of examined issues.
In the practical part there is the analysis of undertaken questionnaire surveys. Respondents were people with an official address and a questionnaire survey examined the experiences of citizens with address of permanent residence at the headquarters of the registration office.
Another method of exploring the issue were structured interviews. Interviewees were persons with an official address, clerks of municipal office and clerks of the court mailroom.
Through evaluating the data obtained various aspects of the institute of official address have been explained. Their effect has been assessed not only to people who are registered on an official address, but also to other citizens and public administration.
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Selected aspects of the offense law
Jiránková, Nikola ; Korcová, Renata (advisor) ; Pavla, Pavla (referee)
The Master`s thesis ,,Selected aspects of criminal law,, deals with the legal regulation of offense procedure and provides a comprehensive view on the issue of the procedure. The introductory part is focused on basic sources of criminal law that are further divided into domestic and international. The mutual relation between Act no. 200/1990 Coll. about offenses, as amended, and Act no. 500/2004 Coll., Administrative Code, as amended that are involved in the infringement proceedings, is analyzed in particular. The second part of the thesis focuses on the general substantive alteration of offenses and the definition of their basic concepts. The third part focuses on the proceedings, the termination of proceedings in the first instance and summary proceedings, including the legal remedies and judicial review. The practical section provides examples of specific solved cases of selected offenses, including an evaluation of the statistical evidence provided by the Infringement commission Municipal Bureau of Zatec. The conclusion of the thesis contains considerations de lege ferenda.
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Association of regions of the Czech Republic
Dvořáková, Denisa ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Bobková, Eva (referee)
The bachelor thesis is focused on the topic of the Association of regions of the Czech Republic. It deals primarily with the cooperation of this organization with the public sphere and its legislative initiative. In this thesis I'm looking for the answer to the question of whether the Association of regions of the Czech Republic have an impact from the position which is interest association of legal persons on the adoption of legislative proposals and the creation of laws. Association of regions of the Czech Republic in contrast to the Association of municipalities and cities of the Czech Republic, currently does not have the right of legislative initiative, still it tries to promote their interests, whether it is the submission of legislative proposals through its members, or about the negotiations with the Government. In some cases there are not the comments of the Association of regions of the Czech Republic accepted, although it may be tampered with the law on the autonomy of regions, as it was in the case of the adoption of Act No. 245/2006 about public non-profit institutional health facilities.
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Children's group as a tool for achieving work-life balance
Vojtová, Eva ; Šmíd, David (advisor) ; Rožnovský, Lukáš (referee)
The thesis discusses the problems of reconciling work and family life, focusing on the provision of services in a children's group under Act no. 247/2014 Coll. The theoretical part defines basic concepts relevant to work-life balance and briefly summarizes the options of preschool children care in the Czech Republic. The first part also elaborates the legal formalities of so called children's group. The practical part aims to assess the current situation of a specific children's group, reveals its strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats and on their basis formulates recommendations for its future successful operation. When processing this paper, literature review, description, questionnaire, depth interview and a final analysis and synthesis of knowledge utilized for formulating future proposals are used.
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