The final thesis will tackle the issue of poverty inside the current czech society and how it is perceived by the students of several chosen high schools with an economic focus. The theoretical part of the thesis will describe the basic definitions and types of poverty, its causes, consequences and other indicators which are internationally comparable. It will focus on the Czech Republic and its current situation. Analyze the basic indicators that show how to describe poverty in the Czech Republic and what are the amounts set. How it defines help programmes for families and individuals paralized by poverty. The theoretical part will concern also non-profit organizations and their help in difficult life situations, international organizations and documents about poverty including the EU aswel as the iternational sphere. The practical part of the thesis will focus on students from economic schools (one is public, one is private; one in Prague one based in South Bohemia) where one can assume students have basic knowledge about financials and are able to evaluate the economical situation of the family. The aim of the thesis will be to determine the attitude of the students towards the points stated above and the output will be a understanding of the situation from the students' perspective, thei...

(in English): This paper deals with early views on industrial pauperism in texts intended for a public reading in the western part of the Habsburg monarchy during the pre-March period (here 1830-1848) and at the time of the revolution in 1848-1849. The main observed phenomenon is the dynamics of social and political imagination of the Austrian society in a relation to structural processes of European modernization. On two basic areas, journalism and literature, it explores development of views on the mass poverty from the general romantic rejection of modernization process to the proposals for solutions of the social question, which were formulated on the basis of affiliation to any political camp, for example, education by liberalism or the welfare state by socialism. The work does not deal so much with a thinking of big personalities of social theory, but rather focuses on the everyday negotiations dichotomy of "old" and "new", which was led by nowadays more or less forgotten authors.

The theme of this diploma thesis is "The Poverty in the Developing World", the poverty that not only less developed countries mainly in Africa, Asia and Latin America suffer from, but developed countries that are trying to help the developing world suffer from it as well. How much is that help important and what kind of help is crucial for the developed countries, that is the main subject of this thesis. The theoretical part is based on the available economic theories that solve the vicious circle of poverty in which these countries are trapped. Leading economists mentioned in the theoretical part are Thomas Malthus, whose study was one of the first, then Thomas Merrick, Albert Hirschman, and many others. The practical part deals with three countries, which connect the African continent - Somalia, Angola and Botswaa. Each of these countries is currently in a different situation, but their initial conditions were the same - the hole in the vicious circle of poverty. The conclusion of this work is a prediction of the future development of these countries and recommendations what direction they should go.

The diploma theses will be about the problematics of "beggary" and his relationship to various forms of criminality, homelessness and drug addiction. Baggary can be concieved as a certain work substitute, which is apriori executed because of gain. My goal is to make analyses of posssible overlap between beggars and persons receiving social security benefits. Findings of services for reintegration of baggers to the labour market will be included. I will use a method to available statistic data comparision with own empirical observation. The observation was made during my short term attachment at Občanské sdružení Naděje Praha with the help of their employees. Aim of this work is analyses of contemporary labour policy arrangement. Theoretical basis of the thesis will be comparison of main stream economics with austrian school (Hezlit, Rothbard, Mises).

This diploma thesis deals with the portrayal of child heroes in English and American literature, in works of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. The chosen novels are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These novels are analysed in the themes of child labour and poverty, racism, religion, the view of the world by children in contrast to the adult perspective, upbringing and education. The last chapter deals with the humour of both novelists. Thus the emphasis is put on the social aspect of the literary output of Dickens and Twain. The main aim of the thesis is to depict these child heroes and their acting in the literature of the 19th century, and to reflect the life experience of both authors.

The diploma thesis on the topic of Food Aid and Food Banks in the Fight Against Poverty in the Czech Republic endeavours to look into the issue of poverty and presents food aid and food banks in the Czech Republic as a possible tool in the fight against it. The aim of this work is to present the activities of the food banks in the Czech Republic, to describe their structure, to point out the significance of food aid, the importance of cooperation between the food banks and organizations that fight hunger and poverty, to give information about the European Union FEAD project and finally to present the management of a food bank. The first part of the work describes the basic issues, deals with poverty, concepts of poverty and measuring poverty, since these are directly linked to food aid and are connected with the idea of food banks. It zooms in on the concepts associated with poverty, such as material deprivation and social exclusion, and points to the fact that it is necessary to see poverty in the broader context and to focus on other dimensions of poverty, such as health, education, access to services and security. The second part of the work specifically deals with food aid and the food bank project. It focuses on the right to food as the right of all people to full observance of human rights in the area of food and nutrition, it defines human rights with a focus on social rights, including the legislative regulation of the right to food in international documents. This section also introduces the types and forms of food aid and global organizations fighting against hunger and poverty. The work deals with European food aid in more detail, it presents the activities of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived, and also the Operational Programme of Food and Material Assistance in the Czech Republic. Special attention is given to food banks, their mission and goals, it focuses on the activities of the food banks in the Czech Republic, describes their structure, management and highlights the significance of food aid and the importance of cooperation between the food banks and organizations that fight hunger and poverty. This thesis brings comprehensive information on the issue of food aid and the food banks project in the fight against poverty and can contribute to an understanding of the importance of such assistance.

The objective of this diploma thesis is examining the evolution of household´s incomes in two comparable periods and evaluating the changes in household´s incomes in the sorting by regions, size of municipality and by occupation of heads of households. This task was preceded by characteristic of household incomes, measure of incomes differentiation and determination of the poverty line. Next the objective of this diploma thesis is compilation a matrix of economic mobility. The practical part is devoted to analysis of incomes through basic statistical characteristics by regions, size of municipality and by occupation of heads of households. Further is measured income´s differentiation, determined the poverty line by the methodology of EUROSTAT and assembled the matrix mobility. In THE end all my reach results evaluated, which I made in the practical part.

This thesis deals with the ethical aspects of the development. This thesis deals with te concrete ethical principles of the development such as solidarity, subsidiarity and their interconnection in field of the economic, politics and sociology. It adverts to each man?s righta to development accordinf to human dignity and the liberty of man. It considers the perspectives of social clerical doctrines, as well as the Pope Benedikt XVI., the Pope Pavel VI., and the economic, politics and ethical too. The thesis seeks possibilities to effective development all of the nations and man?s like individual.

Master thesis deals with the person of Jesus of Nazareth, his relationship to the phenomenon of poverty, and the analysis of texts about His encounter with a rich young man. The first chapter deals in detail with the historical Jesus in Mark's Gospel and also deals with the relationship between the historical Jesus and Mark in contemporary research. In the second chapter, the author deals in more detail with the genre called "parable" and tries to set out the possibilities of its interpretation. In the third chapter, the author examines the relationship of Jesus to poverty on several New Testament demonstrations. The fourth chapter is devoted to the exegesis and comparative analysis of the pericope in synoptic evangelists who are discussing the Jesus meeting with the rich young man.

Thesis concerns the analysis of poverty in the Czech Republic and a comparison with the situation in Germany and the Slovak Republic. The target is to find factors that are risk given the level of poverty and the level of risk of poverty or social exclusion in the Czech Republic, Germany and the Slovak Republic and get answers to research questions. Methods of scientific research is the analysis of secondary data drawn from Eurostat, the OECD and the statistical offices in selected countries.