The thesis deals with the analysis of literary pieces Waiting written by Ha Jin, and The Refugees written by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The object od the thesis is the analysis and comparison of the texts from an anthropological viewpoint using terms from cultural dimension theory.&#x...

This undergraduate thesis deals with Danish and Czech culture, their differences, similarities and comparison through using cultural intelligence with focus on education system. This work discusses, how could Danish teaching methods be applied in Czech environment and that they could have po...

This bachelor thesis deals with the topic of immigration in the films District 9 and Children of Men. The aim was to compare the two films in terms of migration and to find out whether real events and stories of immigrants inspired the creators, and whether the ...

The thesis deals with the most frequent mistakes in English pronunciation made by Czech students. First, the theoretical background explains the crucial terms of phonetics, presents the IPA and provides the classification of English phonemes. The practical part analyses recordings of the...

This thesis includes three chapters that work with three values of the English - privacy, home and gossip. It describes the historical context of these values and explains the connection between them. The thesis works with theories of two great anthropologists, Kate Fox and Je...

The Brontë sisters lived in the Victorian era, a time of much change in education. This thesis describes some of these changes and how the sisters' lives were influenced by education in this period. Both historical accounts of education in Victorian England, as well as...

This bachelor thesis deals with the topic of immigration in the books The Tortilla Curtain, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Lucy. The aim was to compare all of these three books in terms of migration, integration, and the response towards the immigrants. The thesis includes ...

The object of this undergraduate thesis is video games and their benefits for players in intercultural interactions. The goal of this thesis is to explore and clarify ways in which video games improve the cultural intelligence of players, mainly because the general public perceives...

The aim of this thesis was to examine the connection between reading fiction literature and CQ and empathy. This work provides theoretical background on cultural intelligence, empathy and fiction. It describes the requirements a work of fiction should meet in order to help with...

This thesis deals with the problem of translation of idioms in film subtitles. It aims to study different approaches and quality of translation done by a professional translator and by amateur ones. The primary presupposition is that idioms are more misunderstood and wrongly transl...

The thesis deals with comparison of proverbs in English and their equivalents in Czech. There are two main parts of the thesis, Theoretical Background and Practical Part. In the Theoretical Background there is introduced the term 'proverb'. The description of the terms necessary...

This thesis deals with Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters. It analyses excerpts from the book and compares them with Shakespeare's plays that have inspired the book - Hamlet and Macbeth. The thesis has three chapters. The first studies the settings, themes and characters of Wyr...

This bachelor thesis describes the use of a gerund within a sentence structure and looks at all the possible syntactic roles. First, the theoretical part deals with the ing-form of a verb as such and it explains why it can be considered a deverbal noun, participle an...

This undergraduate thesis is focused on the occurrence of transferred meaning in fairy tale genre. Accordingly, to allocate transfer of meaning in the text it is necessary to understand semantics - meaning, components of meaning, changes of meaning, transfer of meaning and figurative&#x...

This thesis focuses on figures of speech used in English song lyrics and on the way they are translated into the Czech version of the lyrics. The aim of this work is to compare the used language means in English song lyrics and their translated counterparts in o...

This thesis deals with the transfer of meaning, as well as other figures of speech found in famous quotes. Its aim is to study the frequency in which the quotes occur and the effect to which the meaning are subjected to during translation from English into Czech ...

I dedicated my Bachelor thesis to women. I described, how important it was for women to read novels. How creating relations in the 19th century was closely connected with reading literature together, common debates and reflections about books. I also devoted part of&#x...

This thesis deals with the gerund and infinitive. It includes their definition, description of their syntactic functions and classification of verbs which may be complemented with the infinitive and the gerund.

The thesis deals with an English imperative sentence, both in terms of form and function. The paper consists not only of the theory of the whole topic but also of the practice - the analysis of the 205 imperative clauses implemented in the form of commentary at ...

Bachelor work focuses on human nature on the background of Gulliver´s Travels. The main focus lies on the chapter Voyage to Houyhnhnms. The work compares the society and style of living of Houyhnhnms, humans and Yahoos and discusses if Swift´s description represent more Utopia ...