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Existentialism in the Works of Tove Jansson
Kauppinenová, Laura ; Dlask, Jan (advisor) ; Kovář, Michal (referee)
This master thesis deals with the analysis of three selected works about the Moomintrolls by the Finland-Swedish author Tove Jansson. The analysis is done from the perspective of the existentialist philosophy of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The main emphasis of the analysis lies on researching Sartre's phenomena of the so-called social roles in the Moomin books; the thesis deals with this phenomena and theoretical apparatus related to it - the term of mauvaise foi (bad faith), among others - in it's first part. The following chapters consist of literary analysis, which is conducted from the perspective of the individual characters. The main goal of the thesis is to show how the characters reflect their being, whether they realize their freedom and whether their acts are authentic or done with bad faith. In addition, the analysis deals also with the topic of existential anxiety. Keywords Tove Jansson, Moomins, Finland-Swedish literature, existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, social roles, authenticity, bad faith
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The Use of Local Postpositions in Contemporary Finnish
Jagošová, Kateřina ; Fárová, Lenka (advisor) ; Kovář, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the use of local postpositions in contemporary Finnish. Postpositions are words without inflection or only partly inflected words which lay in-between several parts of speech. They are divided into groups according to their semantic meaning. The biggest group is local postpositions which are also subject of this thesis. The first part examines the definition of postpositions, their origin, and function with emphasis on local postpositions. The second part of this thesis focuses on the occurrence of selected local postpositions with all six local cases in the InterCorp corpus. The last part of this thesis examines sisä- postpositions in detail. Key words: Finnish, local postpositions, corpus analysis
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Semantic preference and prosody of intensification expressions in Finnish
Vorlíková, Zuzana ; Fárová, Lenka (advisor) ; Kovář, Michal (referee)
ABCTRACT This master's thesis is focused on Finnish intensification expressions in the form of the genitive case of adjectives and on adjectives intensified by them. Research is carried out in the form of corpus-based analysis for the purpose of seeing if semantics of intensification expressions affect the possibility of their combination with intensified adjectives. The first chapters of the thesis are dedicated to the theoretical study of semantic relationships and intensification. First of all, the corpus analysis attention focuses on what semantic features intensification expressions themselves have. Intensification expressions are categorized into groups on the basis of these features. Three of the groups are a subject of a more detailed analysis. Each group is represented by three intensification enpressions whose adjective collocations and wider context are examined. The purpose of this part of the analysis is to find out if different groups of intensification expressions appear in different contexts and if expressions belonging to the same group prefer a combination with the same adjectives. Key words: Finnish, intensification expressions, semantic preference and prosody, adjectives, corpus-based analysis
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Finnish Puukkojunkkarit in Literature
Horká, Karolína ; Dlask, Jan (advisor) ; Kovář, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the phenomenon of so-called puukkojunkkarit or häjyt, knife fighters active in Southern Ostrobothnia from the end of the 18th century until the end of the 19th century, and their image in the literature and comic books. The initial part of the thesis introduces puukkojunkkarit generally and includes information about homicides they committed. The main part of the thesis contains an analysis of three works: Santeri Alkio's novel Puukkojunkkarit: kuvauksia nyrkkivallan ajoilta (1894), Timo Mäkelä's comic Häjyt (2003) and Ensio Aalto's, Eija Kuusisto's and Jukka Kuusisto's comic Rannanjärvi on kuallu ja Isontaloon Antin tarina (2013). The objective of the thesis is to determine how puukkojunkkarit are portrayed in those works and to what extent their characters are based on real historical figures. Keywords puukkojunkkarit, häjyt, Finnish literature, comic, Southern Ostrobothnia, 19th century, crime
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Payment System and Role of the Financial Arbitrator
Kovář, Michal ; Vondráčková, Pavlína (advisor) ; Vybíral, Roman (referee)
61 Abstract The Financial Arbitrator was established on the basis of European legislation to handle consumer's disputes on the financial market fast, efficiently and free. This thesis mainly focuses on its role in payment system sector with regards to new Act on payments and was divided into three main chapters. The chapter one aims at the development of legal regulations in last fifteen years in the Czech republic and explores grounds of separation from the Czech National Bank to establish the independent institution. Handling disputes may even result into achieving an amicable settlement, albeit its natural character does not meet the requirements of Administrative Code resulting as more informal resolution. The range of clients solely entitled to submit a claim was in recent years strictly restricted to consumers although competencies of Financial Arbitrator were extended. The author also analyses rules of the proceedings and educational activities of the Financial Arbitrator to lift financial awareness of consumers. The chapter two describes individual financial services and persons authorized to provide payment services in order to specify competencies of Financial Arbitrator since the law authorizes the Financial Arbitrator to decide disputes between the consumer and payments service provider arisen...
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Czechoslovakia, Guatemala and Mexico in period of guatemalan revolution
Perutka, Lukáš ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Barteček, Ivo (referee) ; Kovář, Michal (referee)
This work occupies until now practically not researched relation of Czechoslovakia and Guatemala in the period of so called Guatemalan Revolution in the years 1944-1954. It also considers explaining the context of the international relations, especially of Guatemala, Mexico and the United States. The thesis in based above all on the until now unpublished archive material from the archives of Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Czech Republic, Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, National Archive of the Czech Republic, and also from American Central Intelligence Agency. Czechoslovak relation with Guatemala was created already in the period in-between World Wars, when the small central European country became one of the greatest purchasers of the Guatemalan coffee. Exactly commercial interests of Czechoslovakia helped to create official diplomatic relations in this period, at which end was sealed in 1936 the commercial agreement and Guatemala bought in the same year arms in Czechoslovakia. After the end of the Second World War these relations were not renewed, however the new democratic regime of the president Arévalo had imminent interest to renew this relationship and as gesture of good will still recognized the commercial agreement from 1936, although in had not been actualized. In the same...
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Sámi poetry in Finland
Hořínová, Markéta ; Dlask, Jan (advisor) ; Kovář, Michal (referee)
This master's thesis deals with the topic of Sámi poetry. The main aim of this work was to examine the history and development of lyric poetry written in North Sámi in Finland. Apart from that I also tried to find certain attributes or trends common in Sámi poetry. In this thesis I used the encyclopedic method. In the first part of the thesis I examine the North Sámi yoik from a literary perspective. Yoik is often considered to be the foundation of Sámi literature and also in this work it has turned out to be very important for Sámi literary development. The influence of the yoik can be seen through the whole history of Sámi poetry. In the next chapters I introduce important poets and their work from the end of the 19th century to present. I focus mainly on authors originating from the Finnish side of Sámiland. In addition to that I present some important historical and social events that had an impact on literature. In the final chapter, I briefly deal with the situation in publishing and translating Sámi poetry. Because my knowledge of North Sámi is very limited, I analyzed all the literary works presented in this thesis with the help of Finnish or English translations. In spite of that I managed to find some common trends in Sámi poetry. Keywords: Finland, Sámi literature, poetry, yoik, Northern...
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The behavior of website visitors
KOVÁŘ, Michal
This bachelor thesis focuses on theattitudes of visitors to a Web presentation. Part of this thesis is a case study, where are examined attitudes of test subjects when using a smartphone, tablet and desktop to the web presentation University of South Bohemia. In thetheoretical part are analyzed tools and methods for monitoring user interaction with Web pages.
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Measurement of Stirling engine
Kovář, Michal ; Kloss, Ondřej (referee) ; Kaplan, Zdeněk (advisor)
This thesis describes the design chain to indicate the measuring cylinder Stirling engine. It describes the practical problems of measurement methodology and highlights the possible pitfalls of the measuring chain. For measuring the use of pre-existing model of gamma Stirling engine modification. It was carried out systematic measurement and evaluation of measured data. As a mathematical model for comparison with the measured data was used ideal cycle and Schmidt theory.
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Belt conveyor for food corn
Kovář, Michal ; Pokorný, Přemysl (referee) ; Jonák, Martin (advisor)
This bachelor thesis deals with a belt conveyor for the transportation of food grains. The aim is to perform a functional analysis and structural design of the angled conveyor belt to transport an output of 53,000 kg per hour, given an axial distance dunes of 19 m and a height difference of 3.5 m. The thesis contains a brief description of the main parts of the belt conveyor, the functional calculations according to standard ČSN ISO 5048, the determination of the main dimensions, the design of the drive and conveyor belt tensioning device. It is also performed stress analysis jacket and a driven drum, and analysis of the properties of the transported materials. The work is accompanied by drawings.
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