À première vue, le monologue intérieur et le roman d’aventures semblent antinomiques. Si le monologue intérieur explore l’intériorité d’un personnage, le roman d’aventures se présente plutôt comme le théâtre d’événements extérieurs procédant d’une confrontation, au moins implicite, avec la mort (Vladimir Jankélévitch). L’écriture d’un monologue intérieur donnant voix au personnage de Mrs. Aouda, héroïne silencieuse du roman Le tour du monde en 80 jours de Jules Verne, constituait une forme de pari : l’ajout d’un monologue intérieur à un roman d’aventures préexistant peut-il apporter un éclairage sur cette «entrée dans le domaine de la mort» (Simone Vierne) qui caractérise le parcours du personnage aventurier? Les objectifs de la recherche sont donc d’identifier les liens qui peuvent être tissés entre le monologue intérieur et l’aventure. Nous constaterons que la notion de roman initiatique permet de mettre en lumière le rôle essentiel de la mort dans le roman d’aventures, et ce même dans le cadre d’un récit fondé sur l’intériorité d’un personnage donné. La présente étude suggère que l’hybridation du roman d’aventures permettrait de révéler le processus de transformation du personnage en voie d’initiation, questionnant ainsi la pertinence des frontières implicites entre les notions d’aventure et d’«aventure intérieure».

I. Purpose To place the Livre and its author in their historical setting, in order to evaluate their contribution to ideas on the education of women. II. Development 1. An outline of cultural influences in Mediaeval France. 2. A description of texts on the education of girls and women prior to the time of the Chevalier de La Tour Landry, noting changes in ideas. Contributions made by Vincent de Beauvais and Pierre Dubois. The influence of the Dicta Catonis, a little book of maxims. 3. The position and condition of women of noble families as a result of certain cultural influences such as that of Courtly Love. 4. An analysis of the examples contained in the Livre, giving an overall picture of the virtues which one could expect to find in an honourable woman with a Christian upbringing. III. Conclusion The Livre and its author in relation to the influences of their time and place. A defense against later critics. Definition of "enseignement,” and evaluation of the Livre and its author in the light of the meaning of this term. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate

The dissertation The Analysis of the Offer of Travel Agencies in View of the Chosen Destination is aimed at the comparison and evaluation of the offer of chosen travel agencies. In particular terms the topic is a comparison of ski tours to Italian Dolomites. The goal was to judge whether an offer of Czech travel agencies tours is sufficient on the Czech market. The first chapter explains basic terms concerning tourism. Then the characteristics of the destination Dolomites and the analysis of particular travel agencies follow. The last chapter offers the comparison of offers from the point of view of several criteria. On the basis of discovered data the introductory hypothesis was confirmed, respectively that the offer of ski tours on the Czech market is sufficient.

The aim of this thesis is to analysis the current consumer protection in the case of bankruptcy of the tour operator in the Czech Republic, review of the present situation in selected member states of the European Union and a draft for the specific alternative options for the Czech Republic to increase the protection of clients of the tour operator. The theoretical part is devoted to the definition of the fundamental and legislative terms relating to the issues under examination. The practical part outlines the current situation of bankruptcies of the tour operators and ensuring the conditions in the Czech Republic and also in the European Union. The merit of the practical part is the result of the market research implementation, aimed at evaluation of the attitude and opinions of the professional public on the current situation in the branch. Based on the obtained information, the specific options for the tour operators and adjustments in the Czech tourism industry are provided, so the consumer protection in the case of bankruptcy of the tour operator would be sufficient.

The Diploma thesis is focused on creating a business plan for establishment of a portal for conducting tour guide services. The aim is to take advantage of the ever-growing trend in providing online tourism services. The first two chapters are devoted to theoretical knowledge and premises. First, we provide the general definition of tourism. The general characterization of tourism services follows together with a more detail account of tour guide work as such. The first part also includes information concerning internet portals and tourism trends for 2016. The second chapter deals with the business plan and its structure. The third part contains the actual business plan with all its essentials such as a description of the product and its functionality, potential markets, a competition analysis, a marketing strategy, an implementation plan and a financial plan.

This study examined the difference in reporting of women and men in cross-country skiing during three years of Tour de Ski (2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2019/2020). The media that were compared was the Swedish public service media Sveriges Television (SVT) and the commercial media Aftonbladet, with a total sample of 350 digital articles. The purpose of the study was to find out how equal the coverage of men and women in the two media companies were. A content analysis was used to make sure the three chosen research questions could be answered. The two theories that this study was based upon were gender theory and the agenda setting theory.  Results from the analysis showed that more articles in both media companies focused on female athletes. SVT focused on female athletes in 46,30 % of their articles and on male athletes only in 40,74 % and the gap was even bigger in Aftonbladet. However, men were more often used as sources in the articles. When examining text length it was clear that the articles had similar length regardless of who the text focused on, but SVT tended to write longer when male athletes were in focus. There was also an examination on how the coverage changed over the three years. Results showed female athletes got more space each year and male athletes less. The study also contains a discussion about the connection between the gender of the writer and the content in the articles. The gender of the writer did not play a significant role in how the competition was reported. Most of the results were similar whoever wrote it, but in the public service media SVT, female writers tended to let more female athletes speak than male writers did. Results showed that the public service media SVT reported more equal than Aftonbladet in the coverage of Tour de Ski, especially in the use of sources.

By analyzing two radical history walking tours in Seattle, WA, and Berkeley, CA, this thesis aims to examine how Asian American communities can find their places in the U.S. environmental movement. I argue that these walking tours provide generative pedagogical tools to engage the general public to unpack the complex Asian American history embedded within urban spaces. I also articulate how these walking tours have the capacity to situate environmental struggles and activism within urban spaces, illustrating that various Asian American social and political activism has always been addressing environmental concerns. Furthermore, I argue that these walking tours of Asian American cultural landscapes enable us to recognize the long history of cross-ethnic organizing in Asian American activist movements. Lastly, I advocate for an Asian American environmental movement that incorporates a decolonial/indigenous framework, which could allow all marginalized communities to envision more just practices of spatial organizing and land use in the future.

This diploma thesis deals with an entrepreneurial plan of a travel agency. Based on the theoretical pieces of knowledge taken by study and discovered facts, it contains a proposal of its foundation and it´s conceivable positioning on the market.

This master’s thesis deals with a business plan proposal formation. Subject of this proposal is establishment of a new company for real estate, focusing primarily on students and provides a virtual 3D tour. The thesis is composed of theoretical and analytical parts and actual proposal solution. This part covers the respective business plan.

Although of particular importance for many reallife applications, restrictions to drivers’ working hours have only received very little attention in the vehicle routing literature. Regulations regarding drivers’ working hours often have a big impact on total travel times, i.e. the time required for driving, breaks, and rest periods. In this paper we describe the regulations for drivers’ working hours in the European Union. We present the Vehicle Routing Problem with Drivers’ Working Hours (VRPDWH) which generalises the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. We present a Large Neighbourhood Search algorithm and test cases for the VRPDWH and conclude this paper with computational experiments.