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Three critical voices of post-war American literature
Malá, Kateřina ; Hanuš, Jiří (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee)
The thesis deals with critical views of the post-war American society as found in three literary works: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The thesis's aim is to introduce briefly the post-war society and then, on basis of text analysis, to provide criticism expressed by each book mentioned above. Divided into four main parts, it describes the post-war situation in the United States (political, social and cultural) and thereafter it focuses on the books itself. It provides a short biographical summary of each author's life but it mainly targets the criticism the book contains. The post-war period was significant because of the change it brought. The society of the 1950s was characterized by many "booms" that contributed to its development. The main features of this period were consumerism and materialism; these were also the principal things subjected to criticism. The question the thesis wants to answer is whether this criticism was justified or not. This objective is realized in the conclusion. Based on all facts provided by the thesis, the answer is that the criticism was justified; however, it is not so easy and it is necessary to read the whole thesis to understand all reasons that led to this conclusion and to think over...
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Poet became an editor-in-chief:Transformation of "Host do domu" magazine under the supervision of Jan Skácel(1963-1969)
Stinglová, Helena ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Jonáková, Anna (referee)
The subject of this diploma thesis are editorial, thematic and content changes in literary monthly "Host do domu" during time period 1963 - 1969 under Jan Skácel supervision. Title of the thesis is Poet became an editor-in-chief: Transformation of "Host do domu" magazine under the supervision of Jan Skácel (1963-1969). After Skácel was forced to leave the managing post because of the political reasons, the magazine was led by editor Jan Trefulka. Trefulka was trying to continue in the steps of his predecessor and led the magazine in similar style. Therefore I covered also this time period (1969-1970) after which the magazine was completely stopped by the officials. The thesis is based on qualitative analysis of texts that were issued in selected time period and on analysis of archive materials associated with this topic. The sixties in Czechoslovakia are a period when rigidly regulated one party (KSČ) regime started to loosen its grip. This process was supported by cultural magazines including "Host do domu". The literary magazine "Host do domu" belonged to a certain type of magazines that were trying to deliver articles, parts of fiction and poetry that was not in accordance with regime regulations. Readers were introduced to really valuable texts and articles that were forcing them to think about...
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Change of the Landscape and Life in the Time of Industrial Revolution on Šumava
Blažková, Tereza ; Matoušek, Václav (advisor) ; Hájek, Jan (referee)
5 ABSTRACT This thesis was written to contribute to study of the post-medieval cultural landscape, especially the industrial landscape. It observes changes of landscape and settlement, which were affected by industrial activities in the middle of Šumava Mountain region. The reason why the landscape pattern has changed were industrial activities and also fabrication of Vchincko-tetovský floating channel at the turn of the 18th and 19th century. Forests in this region were previously used mainly by glass and iron works, but the industrial activities and settlement culminated in the exploitation of the forests just because of oportunity of the wood floating. Formating and function of the channel was business intention of prince Schwarzenberg, who could due to floating of Vydra river and then other two rivers called Otava and Vltava fill the gap in the market with firewood in Prague. The landscape was already in the first decennium of the 19th century reformated negatively, namely in forest crops. The number of colonies of woodworkers increased. The problems came in 1870's with windbreake and bark beetle calamities. Crisis and termination of the wood floating in the region came on the first half of 20th century in connection with world war and political changes. But the landscape and settlement experienced...
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French poetry and its Czech translations of the 1960's
Plačková, Anna ; Šotolová, Jovanka (referee) ; Belisová, Šárka (advisor)
This thesis, subtitled Boundaries of Poetry - Boundaries of Translation, examines the French poets who published their works in the post World War Two era. One of the aims has been to find out if these poets have been translated into Czech. The situation of the era seems to be a very special one: in the 1960's, more than 2000 poets published their poems in France; looking at Czech translation of French poetry, one may, however, get the impression that this was the era of only one French poet: Jacques Prévert. The term modern 101 poetry itself also need clarification, as it is very often associated with poets of the 19th century (e.g. Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé). The focus of this thesis lies on the 1960's, for several reasons: in terms of time, the decade lies quite close to present day; and yet, it still has the much desired distance, which allows for a more objective examination. The era is also special in terms of politics: the end of World War Two, the 1948 Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia, French colonial policy in Africa, and the socio-cultural upheaval and changes brought about by it, especially in 1968. Moreover, the conditions for the translation of Western literature into Czech were extremely favourable at that time - Stalin's death in 1953 was gradually followed by a period of détente,...
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Solving the Problem of Somali Maritime Piracy
Šimon, Ondřej ; Kratochvíl, Petr (advisor) ; Kochan, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with the contemporary problem of Somali maritime hijackings from the European Union perspective. First, it presents the problem per se while focusing on the framework in which the piracy issue is being solved. Second, it analyses the role of the post-Lisbon European Union in international crisis management. Taking EU's first naval military mission EU NAVFOR Somalia "Atalanta" as a case study, the paper essentially aims at shedding some light on the current state of the European Union's recognition as a major actor in international politics. Based on the Somali piracy case study, the text contributes to the theoretical debate about EU actorness.
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Pension Reform Issue in the light of running demograhpic developement
Kordík, Jan ; Klazar, Stanislav (advisor) ; Weberová, Jana (referee)
This Thesis discusses the pension system issues in the Czech Republic depending on a demographic situation. The first chapter affords the historic review of pension systems and shows information concerning actual applications. The second chapter is aimed at the financial variations of the pension system. The third chapter is focused on a basic description of the contemporary pension system in the Czech Republic and historic evolution as well. In the fourth chapter, there is made an excurse throught the reformed pension systems abroad. This is provided in case of post-communist countries as well as the Latin America`s country. In the fifth chapter, there is realized an appropriate analysis of financing the actual pension system in dependence on a population evolution. There is proved an indefensibility of PAYG model through the use of a mathematic model. At the begining of the closing chapter there is a conception of each political party. The second part of its is represented by own summary and conception of this "stalemate" situation.
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Selected issues of the citizenship of the EU
Mátéová, Daniela ; Hřebejk, Jiří (referee) ; Král, Richard (advisor)
Selected issues of the citizenship of the EU The aim of this paper is to analyse selected issues of the evolution and practical importance of the EU citizenship. Study is focused mainly on right to move and reside freely within the European Union as this right became the most significant for the ordinary citizen. The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the EU citizenship. Chapter One is introductory and subdivided into two main parts of which one defines the notion of the citizenship within the national context and the other deals with the same notion within the EU context. It also breafly examines the question of European identity, which is closely related to the notion of the EU citizenship. Chapter Two focuses on the evolution of the EU citizenship starting in the 1970's as a part of European political integration. It examines the most important milestones of this notion's evolution. Main part of this chapter focuses on the post- Maastricht period and changes brought by founding Treaties amendments. Chapter Three investigates the developments of free movement of persons, beginning with the free movement of workers as provided in the Treaty of Rome and implementing legislation. It continues with the outline of the widening personal scope of the free...
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Sustainable development and post-conflict reconstruction. Case study: war in Kosovo
Straková, Zlata ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The Master thesis connects a concept of sustainable development and post-conflict reconstruction and uses this connection to analyze post-conflict reconstruction after Kosovo war in 1998 - 1999. The situation is analyzed in four dimensions - economic, social, political and environmental and the thesis examines how much importance is given to the different dimensions. The dimensions are analyzed according to different stages of post-conflict reconstruction. The conclusion of the analysis is that the environmental dimension was given less importance than the others and the development was not sustainable.
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Trade relations of the Russia and Georgia
Belov, Artem ; Gullová, Soňa (advisor) ; Laschoberová, Libuše (referee)
The first chapter of the thesis describes history of Russian and Georgian trade, political and cultural relationships. Chapter is focused on the beginning of 19. century, integration of Georgia into Russian Empire, analysis of consequences of this fact and influence on trade relationships between this states. Second chapter is focused on analysis of trade relationships between Gergia and Russia in years 1991-2007. Third chapter describes war between Russia and Georgia, influence on trade relationships, and on its reflection in world. Last chapter is focused on possible trends of relationships evolution in difficult post-war period.
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Comparison of Selected chapters of Economic Policy during the Labour Goverment (1974-1979) and Thatcherism
Pavlíčková, Ivana ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Brhelová, Jana (referee)
This bachelor thesis compares the approach of economic policy of Labour government in the years 1974 to 1979 and Thatcherism. At first the thesis introduces the economical and political context of post-war consensus and periods under government of Margaret Thatcher. Then it analyses working of Welfare State in areas of health care and education. Margaret Thatcher had partial success in application of principals of market economy here. The thesis continues by descripton of nationalization and analysis of issues of privatisation process. The aim of thesis is complex analysis of Thatcherism in contrast with interventionist economy policy of previous Labour government.
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