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Change in the Czech Media Reflection of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Within Years 1945 - 2010
Černá, Jana ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to characterize how the media reflection of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, their circumstances and consequences, changed within years 1945-2010 in the Czechoslovak and Czech media. While assessing the scale of the change, the political context is taken in mind. The work deals with accuracy, timeliness and potential bias of articles from the daily newspapers Rudé právo, Svobodné slovo and Lidová demokracie; later replacing these with Právo, Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové noviny. It assesses relevant articles published in the chosen dailies in the period between 22nd July and 30th August 1945 (i.e. two weeks before and three weeks after the first attack to provide the necessary context) and within 1st to 14th August of each tenth anniversary, i.e. in years 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005 and to be most current, also in 2010. The thesis includes the list of all analysed articles. In the analysis attention was also given to the increase or decline in number of the news reports. To enable the comparison of the actual events with their media image, a historical chapter precedes the analysis as such. A chapter on the media reflection in 1945 follows, as well as the one that deals with the period of 1955-1985. The changes in the Czech media concerning...
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The Weekend of Dermot & Grace: Eugene R. Watters' Long Modernist Poem
Světlík, Martin ; Markus, Radvan (advisor) ; Theinová, Daniela (referee)
The oeuvre of the Irish poet, novelist, playwright and essayist Eugene Rutherford Watters (later publishing under the name Eoghan Ó Tuairisc), who wrote both in English and Irish, has been mostly neglected by literary criticism. This thesis focuses on Watters' ambitious long modernist poem The Week-End of Dermot and Grace (1964), which has so far received only perfunctory critical treatment. Formally, The Week-End shows clear affinities with the works of high modernism (especially with the poetry of T.S. Eliot), especially in terms of poly- and multivocal qualities of Watters' overtly allusive language and the liberal employment of wide-ranging intertextual references. On the thematic level, the poem centres around Watters' preoccupation with the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 by the American forces, a momentous event that impelled the poet to questions about faith, civilisation, technology, and collective guilt in the context of the Irish neutral stance during the Second World War. Reflections on Hiroshima also led him to contemplate the role of the poet and poetry in the modern "atomic age". Given the aforementioned qualities of the work, the method chosen for the analysis consists of a close reading of the poem in the light of the historical, literary, and...
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The Weekend of Dermot & Grace: Eugene R. Watters' Long Modernist Poem
Světlík, Martin ; Markus, Radvan (advisor) ; Theinová, Daniela (referee)
The oeuvre of the Irish poet, novelist, playwright and essayist Eugene Rutherford Watters (later publishing under the name Eoghan Ó Tuairisc), who wrote both in English and Irish, has been mostly neglected by literary criticism. This thesis focuses on Watters' ambitious long modernist poem The Week-End of Dermot and Grace (1964), which has so far received only perfunctory critical treatment. Formally, The Week-End shows clear affinities with the works of high modernism (especially with the poetry of T.S. Eliot), especially in terms of poly- and multivocal qualities of Watters' overtly allusive language and the liberal employment of wide-ranging intertextual references. On the thematic level, the poem centres around Watters' preoccupation with the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 by the American forces, a momentous event that impelled the poet to questions about faith, civilisation, technology, and collective guilt in the context of the Irish neutral stance during the Second World War. Reflections on Hiroshima also led him to contemplate the role of the poet and poetry in the modern "atomic age". Given the aforementioned qualities of the work, the method chosen for the analysis consists of a close reading of the poem in the light of the historical, literary, and...
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Change in the Czech Media Reflection of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Within Years 1945 - 2010
Černá, Jana ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to characterize how the media reflection of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, their circumstances and consequences, changed within years 1945-2010 in the Czechoslovak and Czech media. While assessing the scale of the change, the political context is taken in mind. The work deals with accuracy, timeliness and potential bias of articles from the daily newspapers Rudé právo, Svobodné slovo and Lidová demokracie; later replacing these with Právo, Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové noviny. It assesses relevant articles published in the chosen dailies in the period between 22nd July and 30th August 1945 (i.e. two weeks before and three weeks after the first attack to provide the necessary context) and within 1st to 14th August of each tenth anniversary, i.e. in years 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005 and to be most current, also in 2010. The thesis includes the list of all analysed articles. In the analysis attention was also given to the increase or decline in number of the news reports. To enable the comparison of the actual events with their media image, a historical chapter precedes the analysis as such. A chapter on the media reflection in 1945 follows, as well as the one that deals with the period of 1955-1985. The changes in the Czech media concerning...
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The Role of the Atomic Weapon in the Foreign Policy of the United States during the Korean War
Štěpánková, Jitka ; Bečka, Jan (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee)
Atomic bomb has had a profound impact on the international relations after the end of the Second World War. It became not only an effective military weapon, but as the American statesmen hoped, it could also served as an instrument of foreign policy and become a political and diplomatic asset. The United States wanted to use the atomic weapon to obtain concessions from the USSR and in general, to deter the enemy. This thesis analyzes the role of the atomic bomb in the first "hot" conflict of the Cold War - the Korean War. The atomic bomb, according to American military planners, should have played a crucial role in the US military plans, but in a limited war, which the Korean conflict turned out to be, their concepts proved to be inapplicable and as a result, the nuclear weapon was not used in combat operations. The atomic bomb was thus used in the Korean War not as a military weapon, but as a political instrument. President Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John F. Dulles, for example, believed that the nuclear threats which they had addressed to their communist adversaries, led to the armistice in Korea 1953. By analyzing the steps made by the American politicians as well as the theoretical studies focusing on the nuclear weapons as a deterrent in foreign policy, however, it can be argued that the...
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