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The Military Profession in the Memorial Reflection of the Soldiers Serving in the Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav Garrison (1989 - 2005)
Lejsek, Jan ; Hlaváček, Jiří (advisor) ; Wohlmuth, Petr (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present the military profession in the military garrison Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav in the years 1989-2005. The research was carried out using oral history methods. The output was the memoirs of nine narrators who served in the military garrison in the researched period. These outputs were analysed and compared with available sources and thematic bibliography. The thesis is divided into theoretical and empirical parts. In the theoretical part, the methodological procedures and the history of the mentioned military garrison between 1989 and 2005 are elaborated. In the empirical part, the interviews of the narrators are analysed, focusing on general topics (joining the army, basic military service, gender in the army, military maneuvers and foreign missions, etc.) and on historical milestones in the period under study (the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the disintegration of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1993, joining NATO in 1999 and the professionalisation of the Czech Army in 2005). Keywords Czech Army, professional soldier, NATO, Velvet Revolution, oral history, memory.
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Methods of reducing traffic collapse within large cities
Hlaváček, Jiří ; Prokop, Aleš (referee) ; Řehák, Kamil (advisor)
This bachelor’s thesis concerns methods of reducing traffic collapse within large cities. Due to the significant growth of amount of motor vehicles, especially passenger cars, transport infrastructure of cities is often being overloaded. In the research part of the thesis, possible approaches to this problem are described. Attention is paid to the congestion pricing and to the results of its application in various cities. Also, problem of the first and last mile in the city transport, parking strategy and cycling and pedestrian transport are described. The purpose of these methods is a reduction of the amount of passenger cars within the city, efficient utilization of alternative means of transport and improvement of the traffic flow. The research also includes chapter describing the attitude of particular cities. Common characteristics of these cities are emphasis on public transport, efficient transport infrastructure (linked up with the city plan), good conditions for pedestrians and cyclists and also an effort to make the life in the city as pleasant as possible (ecology, job-housing balance etc.). Practical part of the thesis is devoted to an application of findings on the City of Brno. Current drawbacks of the transport infrastructure of Brno and the strategy of its improvement are described there. As the additional possibilities of the improvement congestion pricing, improvement of the conditions for cyclists and construction of new carparks are proposed.
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Consumption over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Cahlíková, Jana ; Zápal, Jan (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to analyze life-cycle consumption using Czech microeconomic data from the 2000-2008 Household Budget Survey (HBS). Inspired by Gourinchas and Parker (2002), who analyzed life-cycle consumption on American data, we construct the Czech average household life-cycle consumption and income profiles. It is found that the Czech average consumption profile is increasing over the whole life-cycle and there is no hump-shape in the profile, contrary to the American results. Consumption tracks income early in life and a breakpoint in household behavior is identified at age 45. Czech evidence on household consumption is interpreted in the context of the Certainty-Equivalent Life-Cycle Hypothesis Model and in the context of the Gourinchas & Parker (2002) Model of life-cycle consumption under income uncertainty, which brings a significant value-added for interpretation of the Czech profiles. The household behavior is interpreted by varying strengths of the precautionary (assuring against income uncertainty) and retirement motives for savings over the life. It is found that the Czech household life-cycle behavior can be interpreted in the similar way as the behavior of the US households. JEL Classification: D11, D12, D91, E21 Keywords: Consumption, Life-cycle, Household Behavior,...
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"Hitler's gone, Stalin's gone and I'm still here." The life stories of wives and descendants of persons convicted in the trial of Rudolf Slansky
Bekrová, Kristýna ; Hlaváček, Jiří (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee)
The presented thesis deals with the reflection of the political process with anti-state conspiracy center headed by Rudolf Slánský in the lives of the families of convicted. The main goal is to bring personal experiences and attitudes of wives and descendants of sentenced persons to the political processes, and capture the changes, differences and similarities in the interpretation of these events across the generations. The working hypothesis is based on the assumption that the different historici experiences in each generation influence a perception of events in the fifties and shift the interpretation of the political process. The first part is devoted to theoretical concepts of the formation of family memory, the specifics of sources and methodological procedures. Another part of the paper is approaching process with anti-state conspiracy center and subsequent efforts to revise it and the rehabilitation of convicted. The thesis is divided according to the time periods in which an analysis and interpretation of memories of the process actors and their close relatives is done. Key words: political trial, family memory, Rudolf Slánsky, the fifties, persecution, trauma.
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Assessing language value in the EU: a new approach to a lingering barrier
McFarlin, David ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The European Union has a significant task in managing the issues which arise from having 23 official languages. Preferences for language are diverse as are abilities. Further despite EU efforts in promoting multilingualism some criticism still prevails. The European Monetary Union is seen through the barriers present to mobility and the realization of a optimum currency area. Data on over 130 countries is presented as well for an index and model of language value. Finally I propose a policy which works within the trilingual intentions of the EU while geared towards the economic incentives language can provide. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Town Tábor in the era of the "Prague's spring" and in the beginning of normalisation (1968-1970)
Rozkydalová, Pavla ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
The paper primarily aims to depict the cultural life in the district city of Tábor against a background of the 1968 - 1970 historical events. The author describes, against the historical background, the individual cultural events and the life of the city, as well as the influence of political events which had the result that the city, and indeed the entire country, returned to the era preceding the "golden sixties". Employing the method of oral history, the author has interviewed narrators who had a proactive relationship to the cultural events in the city. Their testimonies were used as a basis for selecting topics which illustrate the cultural movement in the late 1960s as a period of liberalisation ending with normalisation which suppressed the cultural development of the city; the author especially invokes those events which were irreconcilable with the subsequent political developments in the country. The paper also refers to other resources which outline the atmosphere of the era, namely resources provided by the political authorities of the city and the Tábor City Chronicle. Using the testimonies provided by the narrators and the archival resources, the author has endeavoured to paint the most accurate picture of the atmosphere surrounding the events happening in the city in the said period....
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