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Educational Activity of Jednota bratrská in the Region of Mladá Boleslav
Nedvědová, Denisa ; Váňová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Leontovyčová, Jana (referee)
The diploma thesis discusses Bohemian Brethren, its history, and its activities on the territory of Bohemia, Moravia, and North America. The historical part investigates its origins. It summarizes the period of the founding and persecution. It refers to the important people Jan Blahoslav and Jan Amos Komenský. Further it covers their missionary work. It investigates the influence of the Czech legacy of Moravian Brethren in North America and its preserving. Furthermore, it focuses on the educational activities of Bohemian Brethren in the Czech Republic, especially in Mladá Boleslav.
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The idealized portrayal of Indians in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of Mohicans and René Francois de Chateaubriand's Les Natchez
Brožová, Tereza ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is the depiction of the portrayal of Indians in two pieces of art, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and René François de Chateaubriand's Les Natchez. Both authors depict the character of the Indian on the background of the emerging American states. The exotic setting, which fascinated a great number of artists, served as a device for the critique of the European society and civilization. The wilderness of the American continent was shrouded in mystery and thus stimulated the imagination of writers. Cooper and Chateaubriand were influenced by the reading of early reports of adventurers and ethnographers. These records were mingled with their own experience, traditions, myths, and the common presuppositions. Therefore, in both pieces of art, Indian characters bear idealized character features. Cooper and Chateaubriand both deal with the issue of mixing of races, gender and racial roles, and tension between civilization and savagery. Due to the problem of the blood- purity which would be destroyed by the interracial marriage, the main heroes of The Last of the Mohicans are sentenced to die. Chateaubriand, on the other hand, burdens his characters with Christian features and their lives are spent in brooding over the uneasiness of life and destiny. The thesis also...
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Seminoles: From Corn to Hard Rock Cafe
Dolejš, Andy ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor)
This bachelor work presents historical evolution of tribe Seminole. Seminole lives in Everglades, Florida. I would like to explore psychological and social aspects of confrontation white settlers with Native Americans. History, culture and traditions of tribe.
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Analysis of Zapatista movement in Mexico
Karásková, Lucie
The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to evaluate success of Zapatista's movement. The first part is called Historical background and it is focused on brief description of Mexican history from Spanish Conquista. In this part I focus just on events which are somehow connected to Zapatista's movement and which are important for following evaluation. The second part of this thesis presents detailed description of movement's events, ideology, requirements, and goals. This part presents the main part of the whole thesis and also serves as basis for evaluation, which I done in three fields: armed actions, non-military actions, and Peace talks and talks with government in general. For creation of thesis I used empirical-analytical method.
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North American Indians matter and its incorporation in the lessons of drama education
Ston, Michal ; MACHKOVÁ, Eva (advisor) ; MARUŠÁK, Radek (referee)
Abstract
The thesis gives several examples of literature published in Czech /Slovak that either focus on the matter of the Indians of the US Great Plains, or are original pieces of Indian literature. The selected fiction and non-fiction work is a starting point for discussing the topic of North American Indians, our relation to it as well as potential analogies with the topics of the current society, and designing related drama education projects. The thesis consists of three chapters, each devoted to stories and issues of a single tribe. The first two chapters contain North American Indian mythology, the third one explores the relationships and conflicts of Indians and settlers (especially throughout the 19th century). The resulting projects of each chapter aim at different target groups (pre-school age, primary school age, secondary school age).
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Pohled do života Siouxů podle Black Elka, Lame Deera a Ohiyesa
HŮLA, Marek
In my bachelor thesis called The Representation of Sioux Life by Black Elk, Lame Deer and Ohiyesa I am going to examine the books by the greatest Sioux (?Indians?), Black Elk, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Ohiyesa and compare and contrast their own representations of the experience of their people in the 19th and 20th centuries. This analysis will not only include the concrete historical-political experiences but their notions of spiritual life as well. The analysis will be augmented with the history of the ultimate military defeat of the last Native American warriors to confront the U.S. military (Sitting Bull) as expressed in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
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Forms of organization, goals and influence of indigenous movements - cases of Bolivia and Ecuador
Kerclová, Helena ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Nachtigallová, Mariana (referee)
The main topics of this thesis are goals and influence of indigenous organizations in Latin America. The thesis describes foundation of indigenous organizations from unions and indigenous movements to foundation of indigenous political parties in Bolivia and Ecuador. The thesis focuses on causes of association indigenous people into organizations and their efforts to gain the possibility of political participation. Attention is also paid to ways of indigenous intervention into political events in both countries. The thesis also focuses on aims of organizations, which they proposed, and deals with their success. The main goal of this thesis is to find out why these indigenous organizations were founded and compare their power and impact on the political systems in Bolivia and Ecuador.
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The Zapatista Rebellion in Mexican Chiapas: political - historical context
Švehlová, Eva ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Doležal, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the Zapatista rebellion in Mexican Chiapas from the year 1994 and its main aim is to evaluate the achievements of the whole rebellion. Firstly, the thesis concentrates on the bases for the formation of the rebellion by studying crucial events from Mexican history. Furthermore, it describes the course of the rebellion in chronological sequence and it lays stress on the armed actions of the Zapatista, their non-military activities and peace negotiations with the government. In the last chapter, the thesis presents a deeper analysis of different aspects of the rebellion by the means of the analysis of structure, origin and members; the analysis of ideology, demands and aims and finally the analysis of means of struggle where the role of media is highlighted above all. The final evaluation of the achievements is devided into Mexican, global and theoretical level.
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