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Leisure time and outdoor activities among students of grammar school in Prague 3.
Brožová, Monika ; Psohlavec, Lukáš (advisor) ; Bačáková, Radka (referee)
Title: Leisure time and outdoor activities among students of grammar school in Prague 3. Objectives: The aim of the diploma thesis was to find out what activities students include in their free time and whether they also engage in outdoor activities. Methods: The research sample consisted of 84 high school students aged 17-19 from a six- year grammar school in Prague. In order to obtain the necessary information, a questionnaire was compiled, which was intended for fifth and sixth grade students. The questionnaire consisted of 17 questions and I sent it out via electronic communication. The obtained data were analyzed using basic statistical methods and subsequently interpreted through graphs. Results: I found, that students most often spend their free time meeting friends (96 %), followed by a walk or a trip (93 %), then use their free time for social networking (89 %) or sports (86 %). 50 % spend most time hiking in nature. This is followed by activities such as running (15 %), cycling (14 %) or camping (10 %). Organised forms of leisure time activities are used by (45%).(82%) of students are satisfied with their leisure time and its content, (45 %) do not feel any limitation in the way they choose activities for their leisure time. Conclusion: Students mostly meet friends during their free time....
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The King of Sarcasm: Analysis of Chandler Bing's Humorous Utterances in the TV series Friends
Šilhanová, Anna ; Doležalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Češka, Jakub (referee)
This thesis is focused on the analysis of the humorous lines of Chandler Bing from the series Friends (1994-2004). Specifically, it aims to find out how defensible the comedic typification of this character as the "King of Sarcasm" is, i.e., whether sarcasm can really be considered the dominant strategy of Chandler's verbal humor. However, sarcasm is a concept with an ambiguous definition, and for any further investigation it is always necessary to specify how the researcher understands it. Therefore, the work first focuses on summarizing current research in the field of sarcasm, i.e. how different authors define it, especially in relation to irony. The output from the theoretical part of the work consists of two important points: in the discussion of irony, it is the adoption of the theory of contextual inappropriateness, as presented by American linguist Salvatore Attardo. When it comes to the definition of sarcasm, an approach that strictly separates pure sarcasm from irony is defended, following the texts of Polish linguists Marta Dynel and Anna Muszynska. Sarcasm as a category includes non-ironic utterances of a critical, offensive nature, which are at the same time characterized by a certain linguistic or conceptual ingenuity. The subsequent analysis of selected Chandler's humorous utterances...
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Mobile App for Pairing Movies to Watch
Zouhar, Tomáš ; Materna, Zdeněk (referee) ; Kapinus, Michal (advisor)
This thesis deals with designing and developing modern mobile applications for the Android platform. The result of this thesis is a mobile application for matching movies to watch in a group. Users of this app can create groups or join other users' groups. Users can rate movies based on their common interests. The final product of this process is the movie that has received the best ratings or the movie which all users agreed on.
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Family of Children with severe multiple disabilities
Káchová, Viola ; Šumníková, Pavlína (advisor) ; Květoňová, Lea (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the issue of a family with a child with severe multiple disabilities. The first three sections explain the concepts of combined disability, cerebral palsy and the family of a child with severe multiple disability. The actual research investigation follows a selected family with a child with a severe multiple disability. The aim of this paper is to find out how the selected social groups affected the selected family and to answer the set questions: what does caring for a bedridden child entail and what impact does this have on the child's family? Has the social circle around the family changed since the child with a disability entered the family? How does this affect siblings and which social areas of life are affected? The research inquiry is qualitative in nature and is completed through interview and observation. The interview was coded according to predetermined areas based on the sources studied. The results of this thesis contribute to a deeper understanding of the issue of families of children with severe multiple disabilities. KEY WORDS Multiple disabilities, friends, family of children with disability, social media, specialists, community
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Marketing communication of the Gambrinus brand focused on consumer competitions between 2009-2010
Hrabáková, Alexandra ; Báča, Ladislav (advisor) ; Köppl, Daniel (referee)
This bachelors thesis concerns the marketing communication of the Gambrinus brand and is focused especially on consumer competitions between 2009-2010. With the help of the descriptive method this thesis is trying to show the look of the advertising campaigns of this brand, which has for a long time been holding first place in popularity and consumption in the Czech beer market. The introductory part shows the historical developments that contributed to building strong foundations of the brand, built on solid values and a progressive development of marketing activities. It introduces Gambrinus in terms of the portfolio of Plzeňský Prazdroj and shows its definition compared with the other brands, especially compared to the targeted groups. The core of this thesis introduces the consumer competitions, which took place during those 2 years. It shows their principles, gains and media campaigns that accompanied them. Lightly outlined the strengths and weaknesses of these competitions and it points out the fact that in principle all the competitions are the same. The conclusion of my thesis evaluates individual competitions and outlines which route Gambrinus should take, especially what could possibly be done to improve the competitions. It highlights the biggest mistake which is the communication on the...
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World of Children as Media Users
Kalivodová, Hana ; Gillernová, Ilona (advisor) ; Wolák, Radim (referee)
This dissertation consists of two parts - a theoretical and an analytical, empirical part. In the theoretical segment, there is a summary of theoretical knowledge about celebrities and their relationship to society and the public, a comparison between celebrities and real authorities, an overview of mass-communication and its influence on the socialisation of children and a series of advantages and disadvantages of the impact of mass-communication on children. The final stage of the theoretical segment characterises, from the point of view of developmental psychology, the two age groups that will be compared in the second segment. The empirical segment answers such questions as how much do children use media in their leisure time, what types of media are most popular amongst them, which celebrities do the children admire and why are these celebrities important for them in particular. The empirical segment is based on analysis of data taken from questionnaires created purposely for qualitative-quantitative research. These questionnaires were given to students in the 4th and 6th grades of an elementary school in Polepy in the Czech Republic (ages 10/11 and 12/13 respectively). The goal of this dissertation is to show the trending habits of children as mass- media users.
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Use of Sense Relations in Expressing Language Humour: TV Series Analysis
Kopicová, Linda ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Vít, Radek (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on sense relations, the syntagmatic and the paradigmatic axis, and their use in expressing language humour. The analysis was carried out in a corpus extracted from the TV series Friends and How I Met Your Mother. It strives to answer the question whether the sitcoms display the same number of comical incidences both in the first and the last season. Furthermore, it sheds some light on the linguistic realizations employed and the way they operate to trigger laughter. Finally, the thesis provides an insight into the universal tendencies of humour realizations and their reflection in the amassed data.
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Use of "Friends" series in teaching English on B2 level
Kohútová, Lenka ; Žďárek, Karel (advisor) ; Dvořák, Bohuslav (referee)
This thesis deals with the possibilities of using television series `Friends' in teaching English on B2 level to further linguistic and communicative competences of the students. The purpose of this thesis was to find out, whether a systematic use of the series, as a motivation to the students, for sparking a discussion or conversation among them or as means of immersion in the language and acquisition of the language, would be possible in a high school English teaching environment for a prolonged period of time. The thesis also debates the advantages and disadvantages of using series, compared to the advantages and disadvantages of using different multimedia. The thesis contains a list of activities that have been used during the testing of the series and several ideas on their modification.
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How a drogue ex-user see a period of his addiction
Hronková, Veronika ; Kubišová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Hauser, Michael (referee)
Subject: How a drogue ex-user see a period of his addiction. Abstract: The work focus on the actual situation of ex-users. These people were fighting with an addiction and now they are a part of the majority society. The qualitative research, inspired by a grounded theory, try to approach their point of view. What they think about their past and how do they see their relations with a family, friends and a vicinage. Not just in that period but nowadays as well. Relationships with home-folks are stigmatized by a degree of drug addiction. The smaller addiction the smaller losses. Once a drug user is falling down into the drug trap, the losses depend on how deep he will fall. On the bottom there are no friends, no family, just nothing. Some of the drug users do not fall to the bottom, they do their decision earlier. We call that decision a break point ( a moment when they decide to abstain). A break point comes individually and it is connected to an "interior border" of each person. Anyway, it is a moment, when an individual concerned decide to live a different way. It is a very intense moment and very fundamental for a abstinence success. We have used an interview to study not just this phenomenon. During the interview we tried to find out how a life looks with and without an addiction. Key words: addiction,...
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