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Formation of the south bohemian memory in the conception by F. M. Čapek
ŠABLICA, Stanislav
This work is a contribution to the concept of memory location in the Czech historiography. The main person is František Miroslav Čapek, native from a little town Lišov, near České Budějovice, which dedicated most of his life for research on the South Bohemian history. During his life he wrote several books, but also he done many deeds, which he memorized the South Bohemian people. This work was written on the basis studying of the professional literature, personal fond by F. M. Čapek and especially a book production by this amateur historian. This work is devided, among the introduction and the end, to three chapters. The first chapter is explaining the most important terms and concepts, the second one introduces life F. M. Čapek and the third, finaly part, focused on the analysis concepts his memory, especially in book production and performed deeds.
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Myths and realities in substitute family care
VLASATÁ, Sabina
This thesis deals with the myths and realities which accompany the foster care. The goal of this work was to analyze awareness of inhabitants about the foster care of the Central-bohemia Region. The work is divided into the theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part describes important concepts with which these problems are linked, such as adoption, foster care, temporary foster care, guardianship, etc.. It deals also with basic needs of the child and family functions which are very important for proper development of the child. The thesis also describes how the process of arranging foster care working and what are the requirements for applicants, there is also the information about file documentation of the applicant and the child. The thesis further concentrates to ministries which are involved in child care outside the family. In my thesis I also deals with myths that often accompany foster care. For example it is a myth that includes the percentage of children who returned to their biological families or a close relative. The practical part of this thesis is processed by using a quantitative questionnaire survey. The research sample includes 100 respondents, who are inhabitants of the Central Bohemia region - it consists of 68 women and 32 men. The questions within the questionnaire were directed to answer the research questions that this work contains. After evaluation of the data of questionnaire that data was processed into graphs. Based on these graphs, I replied in a discussion on the research questions and evaluate how many percent of the sample from the Central Bohemia Region knows what is meant by adoption, foster care and guardianship. How many percent of respondents voted for adoption, if they can't have their own child and what percentage of them would have chosen up for adoption a child of the same nationality. I also answered due to research questions how many percent of the respondents knows where in their area look for some form of institutional care for a child under the age of 3 and what percentage knows which ministries are involved in institutional child care.
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Representations of a Hero and Anti-hero in British Fantasy Literature
HARŠOVÁ, Pavlína
The author of this thesis Representation of the hero and the antihero in the British fantasy literature deals with the typology of characters within the genre. She focuses on the distinction between a hero and an antihero and discribes the characteristic features of their representation in the pieces written by British authors, including particularly the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, J. K. Rowling, P. Pullman, N. Gaiman and T. Pratchett. The theoretical background is provided by the publication The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell and a book titled The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Gained pieces of information are confronted with the texts named above.
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The Role of Symbols and Myths in (Rcent) Comic Books
BARTOŇOVÁ, Tereza
The diploma thesis The Role of Symbols and Myths in (contemporary) Comics focuses on different functions of symbols and myths in fictional comics worlds, especially their different roles in comics from Japanese or Anglo-American area. The connection of comics and mythology brings up the analysis of the concept of heroic archetype which often appears in stories. I will chart the evolution of hero from the mythological one over superheroes to the contemporary modern hero and I will evidence his influence on the contemporary comics. Later, I will analyze how these fictional worlds are built on the logic of the actual world.
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Mythology as a Source of the Harry Potter Series
VESELKOVÁ, Anna
The aim of the diploma thesis, Mythology as a Source of the Harry Potter Series, is focused on inspirational sources which influenced the writer Joanne Kathleen Rowling. It organizes the mythology of characters and animals in successions of stories about Harry Potter. The basis of the thesis is the formulation of terms mythology, myth, Carl Gustav Jung's archetype and the analysis of encyclopaedic sources (Encyklopaedia Mythica). The main emphasis is put on the comparison of these features of mythology and archetype with literary characters and animals in particular stories about Harry Potter.
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Biblical Themes in the Legend of the Centuries by Victor Hugo
JELENOVÁ, Lenka
This diploma thesis deals with the role of biblical themes in the collection of poems The Legend of the Centuries by Victor Hugo. First chapter pursues selected aspects of the collection (humanistic values, conception of history, character and time aspects). The aim of the second chapter is to put the collection into the literary context of the concerned period (romantism, symbolism) and into the context of the author's philosophical and religious ideas. This part considers the relation among the collection, the myth and the psychoanalysis. Focus of the thesis lies in the third part that analyzes selected poems of the collection. These are classified according to the role of biblical aspects. The first type of Hugo's application of the biblical elements is represented by an opening poem of the collection "La Vision d'ou est sorti ce livre", which refers to the biblical stories, characters and themes via different poetic techniques. The second group of poems represents a direct updating of the biblical stories. The last type unifies the author's convictions with the biblical elements and recreates the so-called biblical poems. The aim of the thesis is to research this new type of myths that Victor Hugo creates throughout the biblical themes.
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Myth and reality of gipsy population
HLOUCH, Vojtěch
The coexistence of Czech and Roma communities is beset with numerous issues. Despite the Roma population being a part of the country?s population for centuries, the Roma still find themselves foreigners within the society, perceive the Czech population as hostile and reject even its positive values. The Roma minority blames the Czech society for coldness, hostility and above all discrimination, xenophobia and racism. The Czech population on the other hand upbraids the Roma for noisiness, lack of education, poor work ethics, high unemployment and crime rates, among other things. The theoretical part of the paper is divided according to separate issues relevant for the Roma population in the Czech Republic. The history of the Roma population is presented, since it is considered a notable part of history as well as a significant factor in the current situation. The theoretical part also presents the issues of myth and stereotype, forming a part of any society and affecting its actions from its historical beginnings to the present time. This part of the paper also introduces other key topics relevant for the Roma minority, such as coexistence with the majority society, levels of education, unemployment, crime rates, and socially excluded neighbourhoods. For the practical part of the work, plausible hypotheses were developed for the two objectives described above, to be verified or disproved by practical experiment. H 1: More than half of the representatives of the investigated majority holds the opinion that Roma employment is less than one-third. H 2: The representatives of the investigated majority in more than half amount have personally or vicariously encountered crime perpetrated by Roma. H 3: Representatives of the majority society believes that the most common source of finance for Roma in the investigated localities are social benefits. H 4: Most of the representatives of the investigated majority hold the opinion that Roma are poorly mindful of their children's education. H 5: Most of the majority society in the village of Větřní is of the opinion that better education of Roma has no effect on better employment of Roma. For the practical part of the work, quantitative research employing controlled interview was used to obtain necessary data about the selected locations. The particular sites chosen were: in České Budějovice, the housing estate ?Máj? at the V. Volf Street and its surroundings; in Český Krumlov, the housing estate ?Mír? and the surroundings of the Lipová Street. In the village of Větřní, the research focused on the geographically lower part of the settlement. All three locations are considered socially excluded according to an analysis of socially excluded neighbourhoods. 50 respondents were interviewed in each of České Budějovice and Český Krumlov, and 30 respondents were interviewed in Větřní. The thesis set out to achieve two tasks. The first was to identify the perceptions held by the majority society about the Roma minority in the selected neighbourhoods and about its some of the issues. This objective was achieved, and the practical part of the paper describes in detail the perceptions of the majority society about the minority and its issues. The second task was to describe the differences in these perceptions between the investigated neighbourhoods. This second objective was also achieved. In the practical part of my thesis I have confirmed that the perceptions between the investigated neighbourhoods about the minority is not very different.
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Myth and Art in the Structural Anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss
HORÁKOVÁ, Markéta
This thesis will deal with the work of Claude Lévi-Strausse, famous personality of French structuralism. It will focus on his application of structuralism in antropology, particularly the structural analysis of myth and art. The aim of the thesis will be to show contribution of Claude Lévi-Strauss to the structuralist investigation of culture and, alternatively, to theory of aesthetics.
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Artist book - inspired by greek mythology
NOVOTNÝ, Tomáš
This Thesis consists of two parts theoretical and practical. The theoretical part forms an integrated theoretical conception that seeks inspiration from Greek myths and offers creative starting points for the practical part which is the creative project of realization of an artist book. There are also described the origins and development of the mythical tradition in Greece. The main source of inspiration is found in the myths of origin by the epic poet Hésiodos. The mythical perspective on the origin in chaos is enhanced by the views of Pre-Socratic philosophers who influenced by the mythical tradition sought the rational origin, the primaeval existence. The artist book inspired by the myth of origin is produced in a shape of a folder of ten sheets in A2 format.
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Culture and Ritual
KOLESOVÁ, Lucie
The work deals with whole description of ritual theory. The first chapter focuses on ritual from point of view its function, rise and meaning in culture. The part two deals with ritual as performance, first of all relation ritual and theatre. The third chapter states some of typology of ritual and important representatives who occupies with ritual and some of theirs main opinions and ideas. The next chapter completes anthropological approaches to ritual with others important anthropologists, who represent this approaches. The fifth chapter devotes other types of ritual, as burial rituals, healing rituals, annual rituals, which are complete with description visual examples.
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