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The Symbolic of Colours in the Apocalypse of Saint John
Seidlová, Kateřina ; Brož, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Scarano, Angelo (referee)
Anglická anotace Symbolic Colours in the Apocalypse of Saint John This thesis attempts to study the use of colours in the depiction of certain themes in the Apocalypse of st. John. The colours used by the author of Revelation are taken both from apocalyptic literature of the Old Testament era, but mainly from the books of Daniel, Ezechiel, Zacharias and Joel. The most often used colour is white: the white stone (Rev 2,17); the white cloud (Rev 14,14); the white horse (Rev 19,11); the white throne (Rev 20,11). Most likely the reason is that the author wanted to encourage his contemporaries in time of persecution. An exception is the text Rev 6,2, where white is used in a concrete historical event. Red or scarlet is used in opposition to white: the red horse (Rev 9,3-4); the red body-armour of locusts (Rev 9,1-21); purple (or scarlet) in Rev 17,4. The author also names colours of such minerals as emerald, ruby and jasper (Rev 4,3). However most attention is paid to Revelation 6, where four riders appear on four horses of different colours. My endeavour therefore was to find as many possible interpretations of colours in the Revelations of st. John as proposed in various biblical lexicons, biblical periodicals and books dealing with this unexplored fascinating topic. Key words New Testament Symbolic Colours...
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Edward W. Said: postcolonial studies and the politics of literary theory
Machátová, Bibiana ; Armand, Louis (advisor) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee)
I first heard the name of Edward W. Said in a university seminar two years ago. His name was mentioned by one of my American teachers and not many of us knew who Edward Said was. After trying to find out who he was I was amazed that I had never heard about one of the most widely known and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. I was very surprised that this influential author within the fields of literary theory, post-colonial and cultural studies is so little known within the Czech academic sphere. One of the most striking facts is that as of September 2007, there were only five entries by Said in the Czech National Library!. Similarly, only three of his brief essays were translated into Czech? Thus the purpose of this thesis is to grant appropriate attention to Edward W. Said and present an interpretive overview of his work which is necessary before one can begin to place Said in proper perspectives as the individual whom many have claimed as a centrally important twentieth century figure. It will explore Said's contribution to many disciplines ranging from literary theory and criticism to cultural history to postcolonial studies, as well as the literary, cultural, social, and aesthetic roles he has played as an academic intellectual. It will also attempt to interpret the key moments in...
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Escape from the chains of sense: towards the subversive force of the texts of F. M. Dostojevsky, F. Kafka and W. Gombrowicz
Jirsa, Tomáš ; Málek, Petr (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor)
My thesis "Escape from the Chains of Sense: Towards the Subversive Force of the Texts of F. M. Dostoevsky, F. Kafka and W. Gombrowicz" focuses on the phenomenon here called the f1ight of sense. This notion challenges interpretation as a desire for order and for synthesis of the work's semantic direction, and caUs for a different reading of the work. In the introduction, using Adorno's, Deleuze's and Guattari' s concepts, I try to show that the f1ight of sense is not a final state (being without sense) but the act of its f1eeing. Inf1uenced by Barthes and his concept of the pleasure ofthe text, I call the spaces ofthe subversive force, which lets the sense and its reconstruction slip away, ruptures. They lead to a "creative rnisunderstanding" which is a ground for experirnentation. This experimentation does not refuse interpretation and its hermeneutic claim on clear understanding but suggests a different approach: a reading that looks through these ruptures and lets itself get seduced by the gestures and ornaments, which defer or dissolve meaning in the text s of Do sto evsky, Kafka and Gombrowicz. Thus experimentation is an attempt to describe how these elements work together.
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Typology of regular cannabis users according to level of control
Erva, Jan ; Morávek, Jan (advisor) ; Kotík, Michal (referee)
The thesis examines the patterns of use users maintain and observes their management or self-regulation process. To investigate this phenomenon of (Un)controlled marijuana use: rituals and informal social control in young regular users, qualitative semistructured interviews were conducted with 11 respondents about their use of marijuana. Data analysis was guided by Grounded Theory. Strategies are important in the use of marijuana. Users attempt to cope with risk and prevent social and health problems. They are responsible for monitoring their own use and make decision with regard to their rules, which they ought to abide by. Users consider whether smoking of cannabis could impair them. If their effort is successful, risk will be minimized and control over use will ensue. If users do not abide by internalized rules or even progress to the stage of absence of rules, they will fall into an uncontrolled (chaotic) pattern of use. An entire set of causal and intervening conditions influences the pattern and management of cannabis use.
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The African Union: Legal and economic analysis
Hampl, Ondřej ; Bažantová, Ilona (advisor) ; Hraba, Zdeněk (referee)
African Union: Legal and Economic Analysis The diploma paper primarily focuses on African integration process, both from the legal and economic point of view. It provides a brief outline of the history of African integration, as well as the socio-political background surrounding the current attempt to unite the African region. In the first chapter, I focus on the political and legal concept of Africa, which is regarded by the preamble of the Constitutive Act of the African Union as seamless and clear. However, the idea of Africa is difficult to grasp, as multiple concerns exist within the geographic borders of Africa. This chapter also introduces in brief the theory of economic integration. The second chapter provides us with the history of African integration, which was for the most of its time closely bound with the project of decolonization and ideas of panafricanism. The adumbration of the African Union, the Organization of African Unity, evolved in a non-operational entity discredited by the respect to many African authocratic rulers who mostly demonstrated little or no sentiment to privation of their peoples. According to the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the significant attribute of this organization is to overcome such a limitation and contribute to the evolvement of the values of democracy...
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Metamorphosis of the feminine body in the contemporary French literature
Grochol, Jana ; Jamek, Václav (referee) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor)
The present study focuses on the problematics of perception of the bodily image as it appears in a women-written corpus. The theme of the metamorphosing female body has been investigated in three contemporary French novels : Biographie de Za faim by Amélie Nothomb, Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq and Rosie Carpe by Marie NDiaye. All written by female authors around the same age, these novels report on what it is like being a woman in a postmodern world. The female heroes are confronted with their own bodily self and the long-standing tradition of a male-dominated society. These testimonies, that comprise traumatising bodily experiences and difficult relationships with others, contribute to forge the feminine identity. The three female protagonists of the investigated corpus embark on an identity quest. They struggle against the established order to find their place in the society. Nothomb's narrator thematizes the difficult passage from a child to an adult body which imposes the body /mind separation on women. She perceives this transformation as a traumatizing experience of loss and denies it by confining her body. In a revulsion towards the adult female body anorexia is an attempt to defeat abjection. The hero of Truismes, on the other hand, constitutes an incarnation of the abject body. Providing a...
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Interrogation tactics
Fryčová, Linda ; Konrád, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Štourač, Petr (referee)
55 Tactic of examination - resumé Already a title of my thesis "Tactic of examination" outlines what my thesis is about. I focused on general perspective of examination and on problems of basic tactical processes of examination by paying an attention to aspects which have the most significant impact on an examination as a complex process. There is no doubt that an outcome of an examination and the entire criminal procedure depends on the right choice of proper tactical processes, so this is not necessary to emphasize their importance. From this reason an analysis of tactical processes plays a key role of the thesis. In the "Introduction" I focused on an understanding of an examination and its position among criminal methods and its role in a criminal procedure. I attempted to explain and to outline chronologically the content of the thesis and I split this work into four base parts. In the first part "General problematic of an examination and statement" I explained a concept of an examination and its purpose and I provided a complete picture of the most frequent kinds of examinations. I dealt with a legal regulation of examination and I described a statement as a product of an examination. In the second part "Preparation of examination" I focused on preparation of an examiner for an examination because...
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Fundamental analysis of Erste Bank shares listed on the Prague Stock Exchange
Petr, Pavel ; Veselá, Jitka (advisor)
This bachelor thesis is an attempt by the methods of fundamental analysis to evaluate all the relevant factors that are relevant in the process of evaluation shares. The aim of this work is to prepare investment recommendations on the shares of Erste Bank. The first chapter is the theoretical background of all the analytical methods used in the stock market. In particular, technical analysis, efficient markets theory, psychological analysis and fundamental analysis. The second chapter is devoted to the global analysis. Global analysis is supplemented by regression analysis of each of evaluated factors. Another chapter deals with the sectoral analysis as insight into the banking sector in the Czech Republic, partly in Central Europe. The fourth chapter contains its own internal calculation of value shares, compared with the current rate of investment and the resulting recommendations.
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William Faulkner's Light in August: constructing race in the community
Jelínková, Karolína ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee) ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor)
When William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, he entered the times of the high tide of racial extremism that marked the post-Reconstruction era and the beginning of the 20th century. The small domestic world of the Falkner family William lived in as a small boy also afforded him contact with racial differences, most memorably through the servant of the Falkner family - Caroline Barr. This was a harmonious contact. The Falkner boys called Caroline "Mammy" Callie; "she cooked, she cleaned, and she cared for them but most of all the boys liked her stories - of animals in the woods, ghosts, and the 'Old Days' of slavery. The boys loved her dearly" (Williamson, William Faulkner and Southern History 153). However, William was soon confronted with the other side of the racially divided world. This must have happened most powerfully in the year 1908, when Oxford, Mississippi witnessed the lynching of Nelse Patton, "a black convict, but also [ ... ] a 'trusty'" (Williamson, William Faulkner and Southern History 157) who was allowed to run errands all over the town. He killed Mattie McMillan, a white woman, to whom he delivered a message, but refused to leave her house. She attempted to draw a pistol, but he stopped her and "drew a razor blade across [her] throat [ ... ], almost severing her head from her...
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Attempt to analyze the impact of CNBs foreign exchange interventions on the Czech economy
Kos, Oldřich ; Babin, Jan (advisor) ; Čermáková, Klára (referee)
This bachelor thesis - Attempt to analyze the impact of CNBs foreign exchange interventions on the Czech economy - analyze the impact of CNBs foreign exchange intervention executed between November 2013 and December 2015. I used econometric models based on the ordinary least squares method and data of Český statistický úřad, Česká národní banka and Ministerstvo práce a sociálních věcí. The results of these models proved, that foreign exchange interventions had positive impact on GDP a unemployemt. On the other side, failed to achieve 2% inflation target.
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