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The Cultural Evolution of the Czech Minority in Romanian Banat
Kratochvílová, Jana ; Heřmanová, Eva (advisor) ; Malcová, Zuzana (referee)
The object of this thesis is to provide a complex synthesis of the current situation of the Czech minority in Banat, with focus on local culture and elements which it is effected by. The Czech minority in southern Romania has managed to maintain its nation identity, the Czech language itself and traditional folk culture for almost 200 years. The work maps the historical evolution of this community and reasons why it managed to maintain its tradition folk culture. It also reviews the current situation, focusing on the aid provided by the Czech Republic, expansion of tourism and its possible consequences. It presents current state of the local culture and evaluates its presentation and popularization. It also offers my own suggestions how to improve the presentation of the local culture and it considers the future of the community.
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Web 2.0 in nonprofit sector
Lacey, Věra ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Skovajsa, Marek (referee)
This work describes the use by Czech NGO1s of "Web 2.0", and attempts to identify relevant issues involved in its implementation. Many issues relating to Web 2.0 implementation (e.g.motivation, context, costs, impact) have been linked to various organisational theories. A model of implementation based solely upon these theories was initially devised, and subsequently modified to reflect the reality of the situation in NGOs, following the completion of research based upon phone interviews. The most frequently used applications were found to be discussion forums and chatrooms. These were primarily implemented to overcome physical distance and engage with youth audiences. They were also usually intended to improve external communication, although they have been found often to miss this purpose and not fulfil original expectations - often due to poor quality of content, as opposed to problems of content control and security, as were often anticipated The impact of Web 2.0 has as yet been largely unfelt by Czech NGOs. Whilst organisations may feel it desirable to participace in all technological advances, poorly conceived or ad-hoc implementations have been shown to provide little or no benefit. However, well-planned approaches that ensure appropriate deployment for the right target audience can provide huge...
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The life afterwards. The return of Czechoslovak political prisoners to society.
Vránková, Ivana ; Bouška, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The Master's thesis "The Life Afterwards. The Return of Czechoslovak Political Prisoners to Society" is concerned with the topic of the re-integration of Czechoslovak political prisoners of the 1950s back into society after their release from prison. In the conceptual framework I provide the political and historical background of the Communist Czechoslovakia during the 1950s. I discuss the concept of political prisoner and describe the living conditions in prisons and labor camps. As observed from their narration, I also briefly outline the various strategies employed by political prisoners in their attempts to deal with imprisonment. Although the descriptions of the respondents' arrests and events that had led up to them are topics not directly concerned with the primary topic of my thesis, they are included, because they are vital in understanding the existential and other re-integration-related problems these prisoners faced. In my research, I employ the qualitative method of oral history. I focus on the time period when the interviewees were released from prison and try to describe the numerous issues they faced and had to deal with. More specifically, I focus on family and friendship relations, which had been often disrupted and the issue of seeking a new employment, an area of life in which...
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Translation of Russian argot expressions into Czech (based on the translation of L. Dvořák's translation of S. Dovlatov's novel The Camp)
Vartanian, Karina ; Confortiová, Helena (referee) ; Hasil, Jiří (advisor)
Tato práce je věnována specifickému jazykovému útvaru - argotu a problematice překládání argotické lexikální vrstvy mezi ruštinou a češtinou. V první části je stručně představen problém spojený s charakteristikou termínu argot a rovněž příbuzných pojmů žargon a slang. Jsou uvedeny definice různých autorů a některé slovníkové definice. Tato část je důležitá pro pochopení nejednoznačnosti ve vnímání termínu argot, a rovněž ve vnímaní charakteru tohoto jevu u různých autorů. Druhá kapitola je věnována některým aspektům historického vývoje argotu. Jsou uvedeny společné faktory mající vliv na vznik a vývoj argotu a jiných sociolektů jak v Evropě a v Čechách, tak v Rusku. Trochu podrobněji jsou popsány vývojové tendence ruských argotických útvarů před velkou říjnovou revolucí. Pro nastínění některých nejzávažnějších rozdílů v současném stavu argotických útvarů v českém a ruském prostředí podrobněji uvádím a snažím se přiblížit ty historické události v Rusku od roku 1917 až po konec komunistického období, které měly vliv i na jazykovou situaci v sovětském Rusku. Podstatné rozdíly ve vývoji argotu v obou zemích nespočívají jen v strukturních jazykových odlišnostech, ale tykají se především kulturně-sociálního kontextu a skutečných komunikačních situací. Právě jevy sociální, kulturní a politické povahy se nejvíce...
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Crime prevention on housing estate
Žáčková, Kateřina ; Cejp, Martin (advisor) ; Večerka, Kazimír (referee)
Diploma thesis "Crime prevention on housing estate" deals with specific characteristics of criminality and possibilities of crime prevention in housing estates. It summarises theoretical knowledge, international and European context of crime prevention and specifics of prevention work in Czech Republic and Prague. It also characterizes housing estates as an important phenomenon which offers housing in Czech Republic and it focuses especially on the situation in Prague. In case study of housing estate Jižní Město diploma thesis identifies crime problems and their causes such as anonymity and specific housing arrangement. Insufficient civic amenities, opportunities for leisure time activities, and social pathology concentrated in deteriorative areas of housing estate are other causes. Thesis also identifies stakeholders of crime prevention, their role and activities in prevention work. Although there are no characteristics of criminality and crime prevention which can be identified exclusively in housing estates, we can formulate some proposals for secure development of housing estates. These are regeneration of public spaces and houses to be able to offer civic amenities and higher degree of sense of security for its inhabitants. This should be followed by some specific prevention activities like using of...
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Digital divide in Africa and the ways to bridge it
Balhar, Martin ; Očko, Petr (advisor) ; Slámová, Hana (referee)
Cílem bakalářské práce je popsat a zhodnotit digitální propast na černém kontinentu a představit projekty zaměřené na boj s tímto problémem. Úvodní kapitola vymezuje pojem digitální propast, uvádí její příčiny, důsledky a proč je důležité jí překlenout. Dále se práce zaměřuje na situaci v Africe. Představuje některé faktory, které na digitální propast mají vliv a detailněji popisuje vývoj a aktuální situaci v Nigérii a Ugandě. Nejrozsáhlejší kapitola se soustředí na způsoby boje s digitální propastí v rozvojových zemích. Uvádí konkrétní projekty vlád, korporací a neziskových organizací jako je One Laptop per Child, Computers for Africa, Classmate PC, 50x15 nebo O3b Networks.
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Financing of universities in Slovakia
Hanuščáková, Valéria ; Urbánek, Václav (advisor)
Education represents the fundament, a pillar of social and commercial development of each country whose justness influences the quality of life of every member of the society. This bachelor work dissertates general characteristics of education. The opening chapter discusses different approaches such as human capital,externality and investment. The main part of my work constitutes the portrayal of system functioning of various universities in Slovakia and related concept of the legislative ambit of their financing. Considerable portion is also dedicated to the detailed methodics of funding and dotations analysis, various calculations and social aspect of university students. Conclusion deals with the exaluation of my survey in which numerous students participated, the evaluation of the educational system funding in Slovakia followed by the comparison to the one in Czech Republic.
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The Mortgage market in the Czech Republic
Hammerová, Jitka ; Czesaný, Slavoj (advisor) ; Burgerová, Jiřina (referee)
The aim of this diploma paper is to describe the mortgage market in the Czech Republic. Firstly, I have analysed the general situation which is connected with the issue of providing the mortgage credit in the Czech Republic. The next point is the analysis of market of flats and support of the flat's market. One of this product is mortgage credit. I have analysed the main economic values such as mortgage credit, mortgage interest, classified mortgage credit, business cycle, etc. Especially I discussed the household sector because we can see the biggest growth there. Finally, I have compared the mortgage market in the Czech Republic, in the European Union and in the United States of America. The mortgage crisis in the USA is an ongoing economic problem and it caused a global financial crisis during 2007 -- 2008.
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Latin America so as to find out, how these countries were perciered in the Czech media
Macias Huanca, Olinda Veronica ; Trampota, Tomáš (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
The main of the diploma work was to study the internal situations in individual states of Latin America so as to find out, how these countries were perceived in the Czech media. As a study material a group of articles was selected between the period of 2000-2003 from two renowned national newspapers, "Mlada fronta Dnes and Prava". Generally 278 articles were analyzed. These were studied by the help of quantity research method which is good for systematic and inter-subjective confirmation of written communication contents. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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