Proliferation and convergence of new technologies as well as the diverse media it has given rise to have had a dramatic impact on the theory and practice of contemporary filmmaking. This trend also holds considerable implication for the range of cinematic forms likely to be embraced in the future as well as the methodologies necessarily exploited in their making. The formal and expressive possibilities inherent in the climate of experimentation existing at this unique juncture in history encourage out-of-the-ordinary solutions to long-standing problems while begging important questions regarding the process and goal of filmmaking. Taking the films of the Czech New Wave and their trademark formal experimentation as a point of departure, the present study attempts to incorporate the disparate influences of these novel circumstances to filmmaking. As such, Lekhost a Tíže represents one filmmaker's efforts towards the goal of an intuitive and personal system of filmmaking, based on a flexible, yet expressive visual language that seeks to promote discovery without forfeiting narrative coherence.

This thesis familiarizes the reader with the possibilities in electronical communication from the public administration to the citizens. The main part of this thesis is dedicatet to the analysis of today's status of the municipal authorities in Čáslav. The thesis is based on two goals. The first one includes the analysis of the actual status of the municipal authorities in the civic office Čáslav. The second goal then finds out about the respondent-knowledge in the area of electronical communication with the civic office. This thesis is apparently divided into two parts. The theoretical part is focusing on the three basic areas: theoretical description of the municipal authorities, eGovernment and the description of the possible means, which serve the electronical communication in the municipal authorities. The practical part describes and analyses the forms and possibilities of electronical communication from citizen to the office in Čáslav. The result of this thesis is to find out about the attitude of citizens to the possibility of electronical communication with the office and to what degree this form of communication is being used.

The thesis deals with Czech cultural standards and their development in recent 20 years, during the time of economic transformation. After theoretical introduction it presents findings gained by research. The research was conducted in the form of survey (with Czechs) and in the form of personal interviews (with foreigners living in Prague).

Prace charakterizuje tento systém, představuje jeho klady a zápory a srovnavá vybraná data se standardem zemí OECD s důrazem kladeným na srovnání s Českou republikou. V práci je zahrnuta část věnována popisu Chilské republiky

Práce se zabývá podnikovou kulturou mezinárodní firmy. V teoretické části jsou objasněny základní pojmy, charakteristiky a východiska dané problematiky. Část praktická je zaměřena na analýzu podnikové kultury firmy Glaverbel Czech, a.s. Cílem bylo komplexně zmapovat a vyhodnotit základní prvky a principy podnikové kultury a identifikovat zásadní změny, ke kterým v této oblasti během posledních pěti let došlo. Analýza vychází z empirického výzkumu. Na základě takto získaných výsledků a po jejich porovnání s výsledky výzkumu z roku 2002, byla navržena optimalizační opatření v jednotlivých aspektech podnikové kultury.

The work deals with trade relations between Czech republic and Russia. The aim is to analyze Russian market, to assess its potential from the point of view of opportunities for Czech products on Russian market and to evaluate the overall market significance for Czech exporters. The researching part of the work begins with an analysis of the economic development of Russia since the Soviet Union collapse to the present. Then the work continues with an analysis of evolution of trade relations between Czech republic and Russia, which determines main directions and areas of cooperation. The next chapter presents an analysis of Czech pro-export policy and its functionality in relation to the Russian market in order to evaluate the significance of Czech pro-export institutions for domestic entrepreneurs. The last part of the work is devoted to analzying the Russian business environment in order to identify opportunities and possible risks of doing business in this market. This work may serve as a useful material for students and teachers of universities and experts of economic institutions.

This thesis deals with the mutual relations of the Czech Republic with the BRIC countries. Individual members of the group - Brazil, Russia, India and China - have the potential to become in the next years or decades the strongest economies of the world. The aim of the work is to analyze existing business relations between the Czech Republic and these countries and on the basis of this analysis draw some predictions of future cooperation and find opportunities for Czech exporters. The work should provide an objective assessment based on statistical data and practical observations regarding cultural differences and specific business practices. The work should serve as an overview for Czech exporters who are interested in the BRIC countries to export.

Nationalism has appropriately been a much studied, as well disparaged, phenomenon. However, little work has been done on the specific ways in which nationalists thought about the nature of history and the effect of economics in the formation of nationalist identity. In the case of Central Europe and the lands that now comprise the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Czech and German nationalists had very specific notions of the history of the area and how that history bolstered their claims to be the sole true inhabitants. These claims were created in part due to the effect of economic modernization and job competition. As nationalist notions took hold of the population, ethnic conflict grew between Czechs and Germans in the Habsburg empire. This ethnic conflict helped to fragment the empire and hasten its collapse after World War One. The course of World War Two and the Nazi occupation and breakup of Czechoslovakia was influenced by these nationalist notions. With the progression of World War Two and the Nazi occupation, Czechoslovaks came to believe that they had an affinity with Russia and that the cause of communism was linked with an explicitly “Slavic” identity. After the war approximately three million Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia, a major act of ethnic cleansing and seen by the Czechoslovaks as the culmination of their perceived age long conflict with the Germans. Communism became hugely popular, seen as the victorious ideology proving Slavic superiority over the Germans. Communist sympathy and party participation grew to enormous levels. When Communist politicians used a political disagreement in February 1948 to call for a mobilization of the population to institute communist rule, the population responded enthusiastically and ushered in a communist majority government.

<p>This study describes the behavior of four important international construction companies within the Czech construction market. The chosen companies are following: SKANSKA CS, STRABAG, HOCHTIEF CZ and OHL ZS. The theoretical part of this paper dissertates about various methods suitable for market analyses, such as strategic maps or Porter´s diagram and foreign market entry modes in general. </p><p>The practical part begins with the general description of the Czech construction market and its history. The SWOT analysis of the Czech construction market also anticipates the future development of the Czech construction market in following five years.</p><p>The next chapters are devoted to the detailed description of chosen companies. The history and profile of the chosen international concerns and of the traditional Czech companies are described in this chapter. This part also characterizes the takeovers of Czech companies by international concerns of SKANSKA CS, STRABAG, HOCHTIEF CZ and OHL ŽS and their following development on the Czech construction market.</p><p>From the detailed description, economic data with the most predicative significance were chosen. This data was subsequently compared in the penultimate part of the study. The Economic data such as sales, profit, return on sales, number of employees, sales on employee and growth of the companies are significant for the comparison. The graphs clearly show the development of the companies since 2000.</p><p>The results of the analyses are concluded in the last chapter, which also contains a suggestion for the possible future research.</p>

This dissertation examines elite and popular consciousness among Czech speakers in America during their mass migration from Bohemia and Moravia, the two Habsburg crownlands that became the largest part of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. Between 1860 and 1910, their numbers increased tenfold to almost a quarter-million, as recorded in the United States census, and to over a half-million with their children. That was almost one-twelfth of their population in Bohemia and Moravia. In the same half-century, a stable group of men made Czech-language journalism and publishing in America. They included Karel Jon�? in Wisconsin, V�clav ?najdr in Cleveland, Franti?ek Boleslav Zdr?bek and August Geringer in Chicago, and Jan Rosick� in Omaha. Students of the first Czech-language secondary schools in Bohemia, they came to the 1860s American Midwest in their twenties and modernized a print culture launched by bricklayers and tailors. They also became leading voices in what the subtitle calls contention and brotherhood among their countrymen. Contention formed the three large camps, subcultures and allegiances?liberal/Freethinker, Catholic and Socialist. Brotherhood denotes the forms of association and security that made the fraternal benefit societies the largest and most durable platforms for Bohemian identity and advocacy in America. The dissertation uses Czech-American newspapers from the period, historiography and new archival sources from both sides of the Atlantic to more closely examine definitive episodes, personalities and institutions among Bohemians while they formed important urban and rural communities in American society from New York to the Great Plains.