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Prague folk-tales in the second half of 19th century
Janeček, Petr ; Sochorová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee)
Presented study analyzes local oral tradition in the second half of the 19th century with particular interest in Prague local legends, their character, genesis and function. The ca se study of Prague local legends, collected by Czech writer Popelka Biliánová, has two main goals: to analyse and classify these oral texts, and to connect their interpretation by their collector to Czech national movement, ethnic stereotypes and archeological, historical and mythological studies of the period. Prague local legends collected by Popelka Biliánová represent, unlike other prague local legends, which were heavily influenced by medieval chronicles or literary tradition, in its larger part authentic oral texts. None of the collectors of Prague local legends before and after Biliánová's period, with possible exception of Biliánová' s precessedor, historian Josef Svátek, was able to collect such authentic local folklore tradition. Biliánová' s Prague legends could be classified as a folklore genre of superstitious legends and have relatively recent origin: some derive from Catholic pious legends connected to local churches and holy places (the oldest of them stemming from the 17th and 18th century), some are quite recent individual memorates. Although Biliánová' s Prague legends were collected mainly for support of Czech...

Securing Taxes with Emphasis on the Institute of the Unreliable Payer
Obrová, Klára ; Karfíková, Marie (advisor) ; Boháč, Radim (referee)
/ Resumé The subject of this rigorous thesis is an overview and an analysis of the current securing institutes in the field of taxation in the Czech legal order. The rigorous thesis is in detail devoted to the institute of the unreliable payer of the value added tax. This paper is divided into two basic parts, which are further divided into chapters and sub- chapters. After a brief introduction, the thesis is opened with an issue of collection and payment of taxes within which the author approaches the tax system in the Czech Republic with emphasis to the interpretation of the value added tax. The next chapter 4 deals with the basic tax securing institutes. The author introduces the ensuring of payment for immature and yet undetermined tax, the lien and the tax advances. In detail, the author presents the institute of liability for unpaid tax, primarily liability of the subscriber for the value added tax. The following chapter 5 briefly introduces the basics of the tax execution. The second part of this thesis deals with an analysis of the institute of the unreliable payer. First of all, it describes the process of introducing this concept into the Czech legal system and its intended goals. Furthermore, the basic characters of the institute are analysed in detail. At the same time, the process of...

Relationship of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and the Czech Catolic modernism on the break of 19th and 20th century
Šmíd, Marek ; Doubek, Vratislav (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
v anglickém jazyce není součástí práce. Resumé (úryvek) The work is divided into four chapters: Chapter two (T. G. Masaryk) analyses Masaryk's religious, philosophical and political opinions and chapter three (C^ech Catholic Modernism) presents the assembly of Catholic Modernism, its aims, personalities and leading representatives' views. The crux of the dissertation is the comprehensive chapter four (T. G. Masaryk and Catholic Modernism) which brings in the actual synthesis of the relationship of T. G. Masaryk and Catholic Modernism, their mutual association and struggle at the turn of the 20th century. In this chapter I analyse the decline of the church and the reasons for it, politicization of the catholic movement, Masaryk's interest in Catholic Modernism, agreements and disagreements between the two parties, the personalities of J. S. Machar, K. Dostal-Lutinov and S. Bouska and extensive affairs which occurred in this period (Rieger's affair, Chaplains' affair, Kohn's affair, Juda's affair and suchlike). The last chapter (Conclusion) sums up the points of disagreement and the level of discrepancy between T. G. Masaryk and Catholic Modernism. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)


The Semiotics of Han Tombs
Laštovková, Andrea ; Šafaříková, Radana (advisor) ; Nešpor, Zdeněk (referee)
The master thesis called "Semiotics Han Tombs" does not only deal with the semiotics view of space of Han dynasty tombs, when we are examining the number of structures, which are permeating Han graves, we find structures of the world of man living in China, but this process also points to problems of culture interpretation which cultural semiotics helps to eliminate. Problems associated with the sign plays an important role in shaping the very cultural and social identity. The issue of understanding and interpretation of cultures occurs at the time when we select certain features or characters from the structure of a culture to freely create a system without having analyzed the real culture. Always all these elements must be considered in the context of the overall system or structure, or we only deal with empty concepts or definitions. In other words, we do not see the whole picture. Han tomb as a text is polysemous and in many respects incomprehensible. However, the creation, reading and semiosis takes place in it and it is the statement of understanding of this world. So revealing the speaker's worldview depends on the process of interpretation, because the statement may involve a degree of ideological connotations which determined the interpretation independently on the previous coding. Key...

The Rise of Protest Parties in Southern Europe
Třasáková, Irina ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
This thesis analyzes the rise of populist parties in southern Europe - italian Five Star Movement, greek SYRIZA and spanish Podemos. The aim is to define the key factors, that contributed to the perception of these protest political formations as political alternatives. The thesis chronologically follows development of examined political parties. Further it defines their strategy in terms of levels of protests and programme. Finally it outlines probable transformations of party systems, which is caused by the rise of protest parties.

The body culture phenomenon in czech special interests magazines
Strouhalová, Iva ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Macková, Veronika (referee)
Body culture represents a typical example of sociological phenomenon which has been a subject of mass commercialization for nearly several decades. At certain stage of this process, new magazines of special interest were been created with focus on a specific concept of the physical culture. Their content coverage ranged from fitness, strength training, bodybuilding, health lifestyle, to physical exercise in general. The diploma thesis "The body culture phenomenon in Czech special interests magazines" aims to survey an origin and evolution of such magazines in the Czech Republic and tries to shed light on how physical culture represented by increasing popularity of fitness activities among general public had been reflected in this segment of media production. While analyzing three Czech magazines, Svět kulturistiky, FITNESS and MUSCLE&FITNESS, the thesis examines how the mass popularization and commercialization of physical culture have affected a content structure of the magazines. The research focuses on selection of topics, target audience, use of language and graphic design. Qualitative content analysis will be used to study how the physical culture phenomenon is represented in selected magazines. The thesis also gives a brief insight into the history of bodybuilding and fitness movement in the...

Real-Time Rendering of a Scene With Many Pedestrians
Pfudl, Václav ; Milet, Tomáš (referee) ; Herout, Adam (advisor)
The aim of this thesis was to implement a software that would be able to render, simulate and record a scene with walking pedestrians in real-time, with emphasis on rendering level of realism. The output of the application could serve as an input test data for people counting systems or similar systems for video recognition. The problem was divided into three major subproblems: character animation, artificial intelligence for character movement and advanced rendering techniques. The character animation problem is solved by the skeletal animation of the model. To achieve the characters moving in a scene autonomously path finding(A* algorithm) and group behaviors(steering behaviors) were implemented. Realism in a scene is added by implemented methods such as normal-mapping, variance shadow-mapping, deffered rendering, skydome, lens flare effect and screen space ambient occlusion. Optimaliaztion of the rendering was implemented using octree data structure for space partitioning. Rendering stage of a scene can be easily parametrized through implemented GUI. Implemented application provides the user with easy way of setting a scene with walking pedestrians, setting its visualization and to record the result.

Acting in theater and in front of camera
Jansová, Eliška ; PLEŠTILOVÁ, Miroslava (advisor) ; PAVELKA, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis is about acting in theater or in front of camera. At the beginning it is focused to these directions individually and later summarizes their differences, which include: what function the audience has; what options of movement the performer has; what style direction the actor uses; what the difference of collaborations between actors on the stage or in front of the camera have.It talks about the different approach of directors and self-expressions of actors and analyzes the different effects that each actor during their performance. It doesn’t only talk about the differences, but also includes the inter-connections of both styles. The next part is focused on creating a character and comparison of current and passed actors that were acting in theater as well as in movies. The conclusion is about my personal acting experience in film and in theater. It evaluates my work at the school theater DISK and also asses the transition to my advanced work.