The main objective of this thesis is to describe the functioning of the central bank, the historical development of the Czech National Bank, its organizational structure and internal decision-making mechanisms, activities carried out, its purpose, function and objectives and to incorporate it in the legal system of the Czech Republic. This thesis addresses the involvement of the Czech National Bank for the European System of Central Banks, the functioning of the European Central Bank and the aforementioned European System of Central Banks. Part of the work is devoted to the process of adopting the euro and the relation between Czech Republic this currency. The thesis gives a comprehensive view of the functioning of the Czech National Bank. Thesis is divided into several chapters, and each chapter neatly summarized some part of the whole and to ensure easy orientation at work. The work is drawn from literature, case law and legislation. The work includes the connection of the scientific literature and the author's views. There is a widely used quotes personalities and capabilities in their field and provisions of the legislation, so that the work was valuable informative.

Objective of this paper is to analyse the media picture of the Russian Federation as it was presented in the two Czech public media - Czech press agency and Czech television. The notion of media picture is brought into wider perspective of current media theory. The main subjects - the two media and Russia - are presented. Special emphasis is taken while challenging the significance of foreign news as a whole, and in particular, and also describing the specific features of the work of foreign correspondents in Moscow. Analytic part of the work deals with setting a proper research of media content involving Russia. The four stage quantitative content analysis tries to discover the volume of foreign news from Russia presented by the media chosen in the first half of 2012; topical, agentive, tone and source agenda of Czech television and Czech press agency concerning Russia; topical, agentive, tone and source agenda of both the two foreign correspondents seated in Moscow at the time; comparison of the diverse outcome of each medium.

The main objective of this thesis is to describe the functioning of the central bank, the historical development of the Czech National Bank, its organizational structure and internal decision-making mechanisms, activities carried out, its purpose, function and objectives and to incorporate it in the legal system of the Czech Republic. This thesis addresses the involvement of the Czech National Bank for the European System of Central Banks, the functioning of the European Central Bank and the aforementioned European System of Central Banks. Part of the work is devoted to the process of adopting the euro and the relation between Czech Republic this currency. The thesis gives a comprehensive view of the functioning of the Czech National Bank. Thesis is divided into several chapters, and each chapter neatly summarized some part of the whole and to ensure easy orientation at work. The work is drawn from literature, case law and legislation. The work includes the connection of the scientific literature and the author's views. There is a widely used quotes personalities and capabilities in their field and provisions of the legislation, so that the work was valuable informative.

French in Czech republic The work is divided into two parts. The first part presents the French emigrants abroad and in the Czech Republic. It also presents the Czech emigrants in France. This part outlines the history of Czech-French relations. It describes the French group in the Czech Republic from the demographic and social point of view and in the background of the Czech society. In the other part I focus on research. Based on the results of several interviews the second part analyses and interprets some particular themes. The themes are concerning cultural and social life of the French who live in the Czech Republic and give testimony about it.

The main aim of my diploma thesis is to capture the development of the periodic press in Cheb after the end of the Second World War. It is a period which brought extensive demographic and socio-economic changes to Czechoslovakia and especially the border regions. That is why this topic must be set in a wider context. At the beginning, I describe the history of the Cheb region, which, from its earliest history, had a distinct position within our country. I also researched the general issue of Czech-German relations after the foundation of the independent Czechoslovak Republic. A chapter in the thesis deals specifically with what happened during the Second World War in Cheb. The main emphasis is however on the first months in the Cheb region after the war. The reason for this is that it was a period of essential reversal in Cheb. Everything that used to be German was now to become Czech. It was essential for the newcomers to receive information in their mother tongue. The core of the thesis is the development of the Czech regional press in the Cheb region. In the year 1945 there only was a single journal published in Cheb - Chebsko. My thesis will present this journal, which first came out shortly after the end of the Second World War. I will also make a quantitative analysis of the first publishing...

Legal status and activities of the Czech National Bank This thesis focuses on the legal aspects of the position of the Czech National Bank and its activities. The aim of the work is to describe the Czech National Bank as an indispensable and irreplaceable institution. Given the scope of the issue is the work written to provide an overview of the most important facts. The work is divided into an introduction and four chapters, the conclusions and list of sources. In the introduction the author justifies the choice of the topic of the thesis, sets out the basic objectives of the work and gives a brief outline description of each chapter. In the first chapter the author introduces the reader to the development of central banking in our country from the Austro - Hungarian Empire until the establishment of the independent Czech Republic. The second chapter deals with the legal status of the Czech National Bank. The author describes the Czech National Bank as a constitutional body and defines its relationship to other constitutional authorities, appointment and dismissal of members of the board, and mentions the concept of independence of the Czech National Bank. The third chapter is devoted to the question of a possible euro adoption in the Czech Republic and the Czech National Bank's relationship to...

Title: Czech Football Players' Association and its function in Czech football surroundings Objectives: The aims are: presenting and describing the main services that ČAFH offers to its members, finding out how ČAFH co-operates with other executive bodies of the Czech football surroundings like FAČR, league clubs, agents and players and according to discovered datas and information to propose some possible improving measures. Methods: Author provides information discovered during studying the available sources about the issue. The author pays attention to creation of players' unions and then describes the problems related to the creation of the Czech football players' assocoation. The research itself includes collectioning and analysis of the secondary datas, questionnaire research among clubs of the 1st and the 2nd Czech divisions, observation on the chosen ČAFH's events, interviews with representatives of FAČR, AFA, LFA and the interview with the football players. Results: Interviews and questionnaires helped to find out that the camp for the players without contracts which is organised by ČAFH is a successfull and nowadays the only project of its kind so it is some kind of irreplacable service for the members. The representants of the chosen organisations in the Czech football surroundings...

The diploma thesis The CEZ affair from the perspective of the Czech and Bulgarian press deals with the media portrayal of the unrests in Bulgaria in February and March 2013, which were caused by the high prices for electricity that had been supplied, among others, by the parastatal Czech company CEZ. This company became a symbol of the protests. The basis for the analysis and comparison consists of the Czech dailies Mladá fronta Dnes, Právo, Hospodářské noviny and the Bulgarian dailies Trud, 24 chasa and Standart. The reference period is February 2013, when the protests began and subsequently culminated at the end of the month. This work aims to describe how the whole affair was depicted in selected examples of Czech and Bulgarian press. Subsequently, these two approaches are compared. In addition to the analysis, the thesis also touches the topic of modern history of Bulgaria and an outline of Czech-Bulgarian relations. The individual periodicals used for the analysis, as well as the energetical concept of Bulgaria are introduced in order to achieve easier understanding of the entire problem.

František Pelíšek was a Czech painter who entirely developed his talent after emigrating to Brazil. He left to the South American country in 1920 and two years later he became a regular professor at the Instituto Belas Artes in Porto Alegre. On the basis of his diaries we learn more about his personal life and about the life of emigrants in Brazil. We get to know other important personalities in the Czech compatriot's life and we will also mention the most important work of Pelíšek outside the art school. The thesis also deals with general questions about emigration with special focus on Brazil and tries to answer the question why that country was, at the beginning of the 20th century, such a popular destination for emigrants. Key words: Czech emigration to Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Czech painter in Brazil, Czech compatriot's life.

The thesis identifies cultural indicators of Englishness through an analysis of readings of children's literature texts. These were taught on a children's literature course to Czech student-teachers at the Pedagogical Faculty, Brno in the Czech Republic from 1992 to 1995. The aim has been to identify cultural indicators of Englishness embedded in the texts and to reveal myths of national identity. This has been achieved by using a cross-cultural perspective whereby the Czech readings have been used to identify taken-for-granted aspects of English culture. The outcome has been to provide a paradigm for the exploration of culture in and through children's literature texts and to argue that children's literature should be incorporated into the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language and cultural studies for non-native speakers of English. In addition the methodological implications for the teaching of children's literature texts in the EFL classroom are discussed. The theoretical position which underpins the work is phenomenological in that it is an investigation of meanings. The readings by the Czech students and then the researcher were considered from two theoretical positions. An ethnographic perspective has been employed using the work of Geerz and Cohen to investigate the readings of three cohorts of Czech students who are outsiders to English culture. The reactions of the Czech students to the texts significantly reveal the legacy of the totalitarian system which began to end with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Literary theory has been applied by the researcher to investigate the texts from an insider's perspective. Reader response theories involving the notion of the implied reader (Iser) and horizons of expectations (Jauss) are adopted to reveal and interrogate a culture's notions of childhood. It is established in the thesis that hitherto a sociological perspective has been taken with children's literature texts in the investigation of ideology with reference to class, race and gender. These have been oppositional readings which locate English children's literature as a site for the socialisation of children into the norms, values and beliefs of dominant society. It is argued in this thesis that by a careful investigation of the texts from a literary perspective and using the cross-cultural information gained, another view might be taken which is that English children's literature texts are less than normalising.