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Husák,Havel,Klaus:new year's speeches of prezidents in time changes
Nekvasilová, Lucie ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
Diploma thesis "Husák, Havel, Klaus: New Year's speeches of prezidents in time changes" deals with the traditional New Year's speeches of the last three Czech and Czechoslovak presidents Gusáv Husák, Václav Havel and Václav Klaus. It compares them in the terms of rhetoric and pragmatic linguistic, focusing on their structure, style and applied topics. It also monitors whether and how the presidents in their festive speeches responded and referred to each other. The aim of the thesis is to find out how the presidential New Year's speeches reflected personal experience of the speakers and the circumstances under which these festive speeches were formed. A view behind the scenes of the New Year's speeches is to be revealed by a short survey among the closest associates of presidents. The thesis follows the festive presidents speeches in written form, does not deal with their television or radio appearances. It also contains biographical data of all three heads of the state, with emphasis on their rhetorical skills and experience. Part of the work is also devoted to the history and systematic classification of New Year's presidential speeches in general.
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Division of the Czech foreign policy during Klaus's governments in a relationship to the integration into the European structures
Vaculík, Pavel ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
This paper focuses on the Czech foreign policy in the relationship with the European integration between years 1992 and 1997. The Czech Republic shortly after its foundation has been going through the period of big changes and a formation of the constitutional use in the division of the competences in her foreign policy that led to the interference between the main actors about the interpretation of the assigned competences. In this paper are being researched and compared each concepts of European integration of the main participants of the Czech foreign policy and particular concepts of the main participants in the relationship to the European Union from year 1992 to 1997. In the first chapter are analyzed the particular competences of the main participants in the Czech foreign policy and the theory policy arena, that is instrumental in clarifying the process of the creation of the Czech European political agenda. In the main chapter are examined views of the main actors in the Czech foreign policy on the process of the European integration and the role of the Czech Republic in it. Among the most important participants are chosen President Václav Havel, Prime Minister Václav Klaus and foreign minister Josef Zieleniec. In the last analytical part this paper reaches the conclusion that in the...
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Finding the answer in the answers
Záhumenský, Jakub ; Vidová Hladká, Barbora (advisor) ; Bojar, Ondřej (referee)
Title : Searching for the answer in answers Author : Jakub Záhumenský Contact : zahumensky.jakub@gmail.com Department : Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Supervisor : Mgr. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D. Contact on supervisor : hladka@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Abstract : We design a question-answering system Interviewer that enables users to fictionally (virtually) interview this person by asking questions as similar as possible to questions that journalists have already asked. The interviews with a given person posted on the web are being collected as a corpus of (question, answer) pairs. The user asks his/her question and the Interviewer system searches questions in the corpus to provide the answer that belongs to the most similar question. Matching questions is based on the frequency analysis and on the applications coming from natural language processing, namely tagging and parsing. We work with the interviews with Vaclav Havel posted on his personal page.
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Attack Texts on Personalities of Czechoslovak Disent an 1977-1979 and 1985-1988
Vaculíková, Martina ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
The thesis is focused on discrediting texts on the personalities of Czechoslovak dissidents in years 1977-1979 and 1985-1988. It studies the historical background of these years and describes this problem in the way of critical discourse analysis. Therefore, there is used description of the historical period with analysis of texts in three newspapers, called Rude Právo, Mladá Fronta and Lidová Demokracie. The objective of the work is collection of texts of the newspapers in mentioned period and demonstration of typical discrediting text. First of all, there is pointed what it means "dissent". There are described groups and people, who were connected with these activities. Secondly, there is shown special cause about lawsuit with Václav Havel and Tomáš Řezáč. The perspective is focused on exceptional and special action which was linked with discrediting texts and official law. After that are summarized aspects and significance of discrediting texts. There is hope that this thesis dispels the complex problem of discrediting texts, and that the case for ideology developed through media is clear.
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Factors influencing individuals as international relations actors
Adamková, Petra ; Peterková, Jana (advisor) ; Trávníčková, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with factors influencing individual's decision-making in the international field. These factors are divided into two sections - inner and exogenous, and are described and analysed. Emphasis is put on those entities, which play a key part when describing the foreign policy of Mr Vaclav Havel, the president of the Czech Republic and a respected figure abroad. Specific factors having influence on Vaclav Havel are stated in the empiric part of the thesis. All of these are linked to president's acts on the international stage.
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Promotion of Czech culture as a part of public diplomacy in the USA
Kohoutová, Jana ; Peterková, Jana (advisor) ; Trávníčková, Zuzana (referee)
Public diplomacy has become an integral part of international relations in the recent years. Effective communication is the key in solving international conflicts and in strengthening the partnership between nations. Building an excellent reputation of the individual country among the foreign community has no less importance. This master thesis deals with the promotion of Czech culture as an important part of public diplomacy in the US, particularly in New York, partly in Washington, DC. First and second chapter provide a theoretical framework for the following issues. Basic concept of public diplomacy is clarified there. The third chapter then presents specific players and partners whose cooperation the author deals in the fourth and fifth chapter. The fourth chapter discusses in detail the Film Festival Panorama Europe, Europe's largest film festival in New York and tries to map its promotion. This event is significant in that it is an original project of the Czech Centre New York. The Film Festival currently has a lot of partners and is held under the auspices of EUNIC. The fifth chapter presents a unique project, which has been involved in over twenty-five different players. Main theme was the freedom celebration, celebration of the 25th anniversary of Velvet Revolution. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze how players contribute in building the reputation of the Czech Republic in the USA and how they promote their activities. Everything is based on case studies.
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The causes of the brakup of the ČSFR
KLESTIL, Jakub
In my bachelor work I deal with breakup of Czechoslovakia in year 1992. I submit description of events which led to this dismemberment of the republic. I try to explain terms like federation, national coexistence and relation between Czech and Slovak. I concentrate on events, whose influence is not evident at first look, but they are important. I also work on evaluation of development after several years. My work is based on works of Czech and Slovak authors, Jan Rychlik mainly. The goal is to give a picture of post-revolutionary development in ČSFR and to find out the reasons of breakup of the republic.
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Comparison of Presidential Competences During the First Czechoslovak Republic and Today with Regard to the Executive Power
TISOŇOVÁ, Michaela
The bachelor work deals with comparison of constitutional powers of two important presidents of our republic in two different historical periods of the Czech statehood, president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and Vaclav Havel. It deals with powers entrusted to them, concerning mostly the executional power, the government over the republic. The comparison deals with their extent and use in real political life. In the introduction to my work I will briefly present the circumstances under which the two important men achieved such eminent position in the Czech state, and in relation with this I will shortly describe the events leading to the emergence of both constitutions, the Constitution of 1920 and the Constitution approved by the Czech National Council in December 1992, which are key materials for the formation and elaboration of my bachelor work. The most important part of this work contains the comparison of the entrusted powers and the subsequent use in practice.
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A dispute about the character of civil society in the Czech context
ŠTREJBAR, Petr
The paper deals with the current form of civil society in the Czech Republic on the basis of classic and contemporary concepts. The importance, conditions and other aspects of the civil society are explained, which can help in describing these problems. A description of history of the Czech civil society should show on which its present form is based since the beginnings of civil society in Europe via its origin in the Czech Lands up to characteristics of the civil society after the revolution. The main part of the paper includes opinions of Václav Havel and Václav Klaus as principal participants in the discussion on civil society in the Czech Republic and comparison of their concepts. The analysis of the contemporary Czech civil society should define the form of civil society in the Czech Republic and its characteristics and circumstances even in comparison with both the leading personalities´ views. Both strong and weak points of the Czech civil society are described as well as its future potential dangers and prospects.
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