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Graffiti and Street Art
Hübner, Petr ; Šmíd, Jan (advisor) ; Cikánová, Karla (referee)
Bachelor thesis Graffiti and street art as a specific display of current art focuses on the position of graffiti and street art in nowadays society. It brings closer the basic principles, modern history and development tendencies of this phenomena. Attention is payed to overlapping of graffiti and street art into the fields of visual culture and advertisement, which are supported by particular examples especially from the Prague scene. In the didactic part of this thesis there are listed possibilities, concerning the potential usage of graffiti and street art themes in the frame of education, primarily in secondary school art education. The aim of this thesis is to offer a brief and concrete picture of current tendencies in the field of graffiti and street art in the above mentioned areas.
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Image and word
Neznal, Vít ; ETLÍK, Jaroslav (advisor) ; CÍSAŘ, Jan (referee)
Vít Neznal's MA thesis called The Image and the Word deals with images and words as the two primary means of representation and elaborates on Neznal's bachelor thesis, in which he examined their articulation through the medium of theatre. The author first interprets the nature ? identity of image and representation with regards to general esthetic categories (mimesis, intentional object, simulacrum), and goes on to focus on their specific manifestations within individual artistic domains (painting, photography, film, theatre), basing his analysis on the framework of numerous theoretical concepts (structural-semiotic discourse, the "esthetics of the performative," the "ontological principle," etc.). The author then reflects on the word, while keeping his previous conclusions in mind, mainly within the context of theatre. His central theme is the identity of the image, or representation. This influenced his choice of examples. The analyzed works are mainly connected through an exploration of the limits of representation and through the thematization of their artistic language.
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Adventist and Mormon congregations in Czechia: Distribution, position and manifestations of social capital
Reeves, Daniel
This research examines the congregations of two relatively young, "western" Christian churches (namely the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Mormons) within Czechia, as sources of social capital for their members. To place these congregations into a spatial context and to shed light on the organizational base of their extensive social networks, the distribution and position (in terms of percentage of adherents as a portion of the total population) of the respective churches are explored at global, regional (European) and local (Czechia) levels. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to attempt to measure the strength of Adventist and Mormon congregations in Czechia as a viable source of social capital and to explore the diverse ways in which members benefit from belonging. The levels of trust and participation measured within congregations indeed suggest that they present ideal conditions for the development of social capital. Experiences and specific examples of active participants in Adventist and Mormon communities in Czechia confirm the existence of social capital benefits arising from their participation in a congregation. Keywords: Adventists, geography of religion, Mormons, religious communities, social capital
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The group Sociální skupina Ho-Ho-Ko-Ko (1925-1927) in context of postwar realisms in Germany, France and Italy
Mazancová, Dagmar ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Bydžovská, Lenka (referee) ; Winter, Tomáš (referee)
The goal of this work is to chart in detail the activities of the group Sociální skupina Ho-Ho-Ko-Ko and to contextualize it with the postwar realisms in Germany, France and Italy. The thesis briefly defines the variety of realistic tendencies in the twenties - neoclassicism, primitivism, metaphysical painting, new objektivity, and magic realism and characterizes their principal representatives in the above mentioned countries. The production of the group, which is the pivotal theme, is introduced on the basis of reconstruction of the exhibition catalogues, exploration of theoretical background through newly found archival documents, estimation of both known and newly found reviews of temporary newspapers and magazines. For detailed examination of the group's specificity are its works of art, divided into iconography chapters, compared with the examples of European realistic tendencies. A special consideration is devoted to the program proclamations and the scale in which the group succeeded in their implementation.
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Virtualization aplication for monitoring networks
Kafka, Jan ; Pavlíček, Luboš (advisor) ; Gála, Libor (referee)
Virtualization is a promising information technology industry today. Whether for reasons of economies, achieve high availability of services, or facilitate the administration etc., gets more and more benefits.With the development of virtualization has been the transition from simple emulation, which was simply procesed as the code processor and simulated a complete computer, the hardware assisted emulation or Paravirtualization make the directing of this process has become almost negligible - literature generally indicates less than three percent. Virtualization also opens the way into the most demanding server applications, where in addition to high availability of services depends also on the optimal use of available hardware resources.The first part is a description of the reasons brought the benefits of deploying a virtualization server environment. The following section discusses virtualization techniques, their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages and most common server virtualization products. In the next chapter are explained the ways to achieve high service availability in a virtualized server environment, and examples of products of VMware, which is the industry leader. Chapter discussed concepts such as cold migration, live migration, technology VMware High Availability, VMware Fault Tolerance, and more. The last chapter is devoted to the practical part of the bachelor thesis. Describes hardware preparation for the experimental environment, the setup, configuration, problems during preparation laboratory network and the installation of dedicated virtualization product, VMware ESX 4.0 64bit. In last part will be describe installation and configuration monitoring software, OpenNMS on server virtualization. At the end, will be examination how fail activities impact on virtualization monitoring software and how rescue this software application VMware ESX 4.0.
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Using XML technologies to apply design patterns
Hála, Vojtěch ; Zavoral, Filip (referee) ; Bednárek, David (advisor)
Although contemporary programming style involves massive use of design patterns, programming languages does not offer suitable means tu support their application. Aim of this work is to show in practice that modern XML technologies, namely XSL Transformations, allow developers to avoid some routine tasks required by the objective language itself. This reduces the probability of errors, allows developers to focus on the key parts of the design, and makes maintaining the code markedly easier. These benefits come to light especially in large projects with hundreds to thousands of classes with complicated relations. In this Thesis we demonstrate these ideas on an example of a C++ compiler project.
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Problem Child and Substitutional Child Care in School Facilities Providing Institutional and Protective Care
Janský, Pavel ; Hadj - Moussová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Lašek, Jan (referee) ; Faber, Josef (referee)
Author of this work gives an overall look at the field of care for children with special interest in those children who have bad social behaviour; his view represents one of many possible and existing views in this field. Reflecting varied theoretical outcomes and practical experience the work presents a complex picture of methods of care for children who are "problematic" and are temporarily placed in special schools, alternative educational institutions and similar facilities. The work proceeds from wide general knowledge and interdisciplinary relations between psychology and pedagogy to more specific and practical impact of such relations and knowledge and concrete examples of their possible usage in real life. The main goal of the work is to approach the subject of children who are difficult to educate and present this topic in really wide, complex way highlighting the key role of preventive measures that represent the whole bunch of related methods, procedures and actions preventing development of such educational problems in children. The author of the work considers very important to respect natural development of each child and its individual needs during the whole educational process and at the same time considers important to support these aspects with social relations and relationships of high...
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Business ethics
Stiborová, Hana ; Drozen, František (advisor) ; Šípek, Ladislav (referee)
This thesis covers with problems of business ethics on both macroeconomic and microeconomic level. It is focused firstly on specific expressions of ethical business approaches but at the same time it represents theoretical methods how one can achieve them. This thesis states that the basic principle of business ethics is a principle of long-term existing and sustainability. Similarly, it refers to modern trends in ethical business such as sustainable consumption and Fair Trade. The thesis evaluates current situation in companies' ethical manner and moreover, it describes an example of the company Marks&Spencer as a one of the leading corporation in the area of business ethics. Accordingly, it is a proof that ethics and business are not an oxymoron but they go hand in hand.
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G. Lipovetsky: The Painless Ethics
Pavelcová, Tereza ; Jirsa, Jakub (advisor) ; Čapek, Jakub (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to follow and to critically interpret the proposition about the development of ethics and morality in the work of Gilles Lipovetsky both on specific examples from the history of ethics and its contemporary reflections. The thesis should clarify in what cases is his philosophical and sociological diagnosis, analysis and prediction justified and where it is on the contrary problematic and why. Lipovetsky's proposition in his book The Twilight of Duty is that contemporary moral "boom" is actually a shock and not only a comeback or a revitalization of the traditional morality. It would be no exaggeration to say that contemporary morality is definitely leaving the traditional one behind. The ambition of the thesis is also to give a formulation of the character and typical manifestation of Lipovetsky's "postmoral ethics of the third type" with neither religious nor lay basis in form of duty. The thesis is aware of the tension between the ethical ardor and decadence, the incitements to individualism and the demands of society, in short the tension between responsible and irresponsible ethics. The aim is also to try to justify the applied ethics of responsibility formulated by Lipovetsky, which is to be set in the period of "the twilight of duty", when we no longer have a...
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Economic Analysis of Judicial Activity
Zabranská, Monika ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Munzi, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis deals with the problem of the monopoly structure of the modern justice system and the heavy regulation of most fields of dispute resolution. In this system, judges themselves comprise a self-interested group seeking relaxed regulation and increased rights from the government. The thesis describes inefficiencies and dangers stemming from the lack of market control of the modern justice system and suggests an alternative in the form of a private justice system. The purpose of this paper is to examine both the problem of successful implementation of competition into the current justice system, while describing various models as to how the private justice system could function without state control, with examples from history. This paper further examines the economic differences between private and public justice systems in terms of incentives, efficiency, the process of law creation, speed, and consumers' satisfaction, as well as the conditions under which different systems work best. The main conclusion of this paper is that society should allow all subjects desirous of opportunities to provide goods and services through new enterprises, even in areas currently the exclusive domain of the state, as doing so brings an increase in quality, speed of solution/service, and innovation.
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