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Fictional paths to a larger truth in american new journalism
Chamonikolas, Kryštof ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee)
Truman Garcia Capote (1924 - 1984) and Norman Kingsley Mailer (born 1923) were renown in the 1960s as both novelists and journalists. In two of their best-known and often most valued works, In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (1965) and The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel- The Novel as History (1968), they attempted to combine their novelistic and journalistic skills to a yet unprecedented degree and create what Capote himself termed a "nonfiction novel". They wrote book-long texts which 'read like novels', but were simultaneously well-researched and highly accurate journalistic reportages on real events. Originally started as magazine assignments, they both established themselves as landmarks of the 1960s American novel and as central works of the American new journalism, a literary and journalistic movement and genre attempting to blend literary writing techniques with journalistic factuality and accuracy. Despite their common aim and status as "nonfiction novels", however, In Cold Blood and The Armies of the Night represent radically different, even antithetic types of both novel and reportage. A more detailed analysis and critical assessment of their differences and their relationship to other similar works, which I will attempt in this MA thesis, should...
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The living body as the source of freedom (a philosophical study on the origins of the freedom of will as a fact and as a concept)
Brinzanik, Dušan ; Čapek, Jakub (referee) ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor)
This thesis aims to focus on two different ways of how people think about freedom; the author is convinced they have from the very beginning involved the reasons why they are unable to cope with the possibility of the freedom of will in the world, and to plausibly explain what free will is. One way of thinking is based in such a view of the world that cannot guarantee the possibility of freedom in the world as it is unable to grasp anything like free will with the means it has; the other approach collapses due to the obscure and internally incongruous concept of Self. This leads to expectation of free will, which is unreachable by principle although initially freedom was associated with man and the only aim is to explain how freedom is restricted and how it can be cultivated. What both these approaches have in common is a misleading connection of free will and moral responsibility, which makes it even more difficult for them to form and adequate concept of freedom.
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The analysis of the personnel work (personnel practices)
Novotná, Anna ; Šikýř, Martin (advisor) ; Štůlová, Jana (referee)
The objective of the Bachelor's thesis is to explore and assess the personnel work, the key personnel practices and refer to the relationship between the position of the personnel department in the organizational structure of the company and it's decision-making powers and try to define the possibilities and the limits of impact the personnel department on the events in the company. The analysis is made on comparation of established facts in the analyzed company and the theoretical knowledge of the personnel work. The analysis is supplemented by the some proposals to improve the current situation in the company.
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Some Aspects of Communication with a Blind Patient
Šmídová, Lenka ; Mellanová, Alena (advisor) ; Marková, Eva (referee)
This diploma work deals with some aspects of the communication with sight disabled patients. The theoretical part is dedicated to the problems of a sight disability, general definition of a communicational idea and and communicational specialities of sight disabled patients. It describes some particular sight defects, psycho - social aspects of a sight disability and it also deals with a training of generally educated nurses, nurses with a diploma and health assistants for a work with sight disabled people. In an experimental part the diploma work makes an inquiry of sight disabled people when visiting Health Centers and on the contrary the experience of nurses with these patients. For this research work two questionaires were made and used. One of the questionaires was used for sight disabled people, another one for nurses. Two experimantal groups consisted of 104 sight disabled people and 100 nurses working in outpatients department. From this research it is perceptable that all the nurses working at all the health workplaces should know how to work with sight disabled people.The research proved that the problems appear in dealing nurses with patients, these problems concern especially the nurses lack of effort to solve the situation with a companion or an unsuitable accompaniment. Sight disabled people...
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Bimodal distributions
Došlá, Šárka ; Dupač, Václav (referee) ; Anděl, Jiří (advisor)
We study the bimodality of the mixture of two unimodal distributions. In the special cases we give necessary and su±cient conditions ensuring the bimodality of such mixtures. We study the probability of the event that the histogram of a random sample from unimodal distribution indicates two peaks. For some types of unimodal distributions it is possible to simplify this problem and we can study histograms of samples from uniform distribution instead. We show that for increasing number of observations the probability that histogram with N classes has two peaks tends to the probability that the random permutation of numbers 1;...;N is bimodal.
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A Comparison of Apocalyptic and Rationalistic Tendencies in Mediaeval Judaism
Blažek, Jiří ; Biernot, David (referee) ; Nosek, Bedřich (advisor)
The theme of this work is Jewish messianism and its apocalyptic and rationalistic tendencies in Middle Ages. The thesis is opened by short introduction to phenomenon of messianism and its historical development throughout centuries, with a description of the biblical word Mashiah: how the word, which literally means "anointed", became synonym to words like "savior" or "redeemer". This part of the work reveals the necessary historical background - events that led to two great Jewish rebellions, destruction of ancient Israel and codification of Talmud face to face the growth of Christianity. All these events formed the Jewish messianism in following centuries.
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Impact of inclusive environment for pupils attitudes towards persons with disability
Zilcher, Ladislav
This dissertation is conceived as a theoretical - empirical study, which is focused on modifications in attitudes of fourth and fifth grade pupils towards people with disabilities. The research is based on three possible influences for attitudes, (1) the effect of classmate with disability on pupils' attitudes towards people with disability, (2) teacher's approach to the issue, their inclusive teaching competences and the effect on pupils' attitudes and (3) if school and its inclusive setting (which is represented by schools with "Fair school" certificate) has any influence on pupils' attitudes towards persons with disabilities. We try to explain one elemental empirical question by dealing with these three particular research issues. Does inclusive environment have positive influence on fourth and fifth grade pupils towards people with disabilities? We decided to choose a quasiexperimental design of this study to answer this question. Two validated empirical instruments were used in the research, they were administrated on a sample that consists of 1948 pupils from fourth and fifth grades and (their) 102 teachers. The acquired data were processed by appropriate statistical methods. Our outcomes partly confirmed the assumption that inclusive environment may have an impact on pupils' attitude towards...
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The molecular mechanism of CSL protein participation in oxidative stress response in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Daněk, Petr ; Převorovský, Martin (advisor) ; Sipiczki, Matthias (referee)
Redox homeostasis maintenance is important for proper organism and cell function, for while relatively low amount of reactive oxygen (and nitrogen) species contributes to the fine tuning of signal transduction, excessive concentration of ROS (oxidative stress) has demonstrably harmful effects and is tightly connected to many pathological states. Cells therefore evolved broad palette of antioxidant mechanisms that express striking level of conservation among different species. Large, intricate stress response signaling networks have been already described; nonetheless, novel molecules employed in stress-related signaling are still being discovered. Several studies recently suggested transcription factors CSL, proteins essential for regulation of metazoan development as effectors of Notch signaling, are also involved in response to oxidative stress. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, well established model of response to various stresses, comprises two paralogs of CSL proteins - Cbf11 and Cbf12. We have found cells depleted of cbf11 are highly resistant to hydrogen peroxide. This resistance appears to be caused by upregulation of important stress responsive genes including ctt1, gst2, pyp2, and atf1. Cbf11 is therefore negative regulator of these genes, which suppresses their expression...
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Insularity and connection in E.M. Forster's Howards End and A Passage to India
Rezková, Jana ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Armand, Louis (referee)
Howards End and A Passage to India, the two best known novels by E.M. Forster are quite different in theme and setting, but they have an important aspect in common. Both novels take place in a strictly divided society and they both deal with the insularity and narrow-mindedness of separate communities and their inability to reach beyond their own environment and experience. "Only connect ... ", an epigraph from Howards End, introduces one of the central themes of F orster' s writing. E. M. Forster strongly believed in the importance of personal relationships and in living a full, undivided life. That is, a life in which spiritual, physical, emotional and rational aspects are all in harmony. 1 In order to reach the desired harmony, one needs to establish connections not only between the spiritual and material life, but also on the level of personal relations. Forster is concerned with an individual's search for harmony, but also with finding harmony and overcoming fragmentation in the whole society. To reach such harmony, both within the self and within the society, is what the characters of his novels strive for. Forster disregarded religion already during his university years2 and this may have led him to consider personal relationships of primary importance. His belief in personal relations is also...
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