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In this work I explore the subject of theological motives in the worlds of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - Middle-earth, Clive Staples Lewis - Narnia and George Lucas - Star Wars. In the world of the Middle-earth, it will be the whole canon, which contains stories from the Middle- earth focusing on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I will use all seven books from the world of Narnia. In George Lucas's world, I'm mainly using the so-called G-canon. If there's a topic that's not covered by this canon, I'll look into the so-called T-canon, or the C-canon. I will compare the different theological questions in the approaches of an author influenced by Anglicism, Catholicism and Methodism with Buddhism. The most important questions for me will be creation, sin, grace, hope, forgiveness and redemption. For each topic, I compare the approaches and compare them to the biblical narrative. The aim of the work is if and howt extent these stories reflect a biblical view of man and of history.

Title: Biblical paraphrasing Author: Ondřej Michálek Department: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Supervisor: Mgr. Rudolf Rosa, Ph.D., Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Abstract: The main goal of this thesis is to create software for modernization of biblical texts with parahprasing on the word level. Next goal is paraphrasing of biblical texts with specific language corpuses and to make biblical text similar to that language, e.g. medical texts. Finally I try to parahprase common texts as poetry, law or some pieces of news to look like parts of the bible. For paraphrasing I will use tools like Word2vec and MorphoDiTa and I will analyze the usefulness for Czech language and especially for biblical texts. Keywords: paraphrasing, bible, text corpuses, synonyms, Word2vec

Are low income people in a bigger danger of obesity? This analysis included 19 254 habitants of California confirms that every additional 10 000 dollars earned per year lower the BMI rate by 0.05. Result of this thesis is in line with current research. Average BMI of white man and US citizen living in California is 23.21. Every additional level of education lowers the BMI rate by 0.16. Ethnicity is another important factor, which influences obesity. Hispanics and Afroamericans are on average about 1.3 more obese than white race. Frequent attendance of fast food increases the BMI rate by 0.45. Food subsidies could be effective move, targeting at poorer people making thereby fruit and vegetable more available.This trend might be reflected into consumption efffect, which lowers the BMI rate by 0.24. Government and firms should also focus more on the problem of presenteeism, which is a major determinant of all costs associated with obesity.

The Printmaking of Czech Art Informel Author: Jiří Krtička Abstract The thesis deals comprehensively with the printmaking of Czech Art Informel: explores its sources, principles and themes, evaluates contributions of individual artists and analyses the technique of "structural printmaking". The first artworks in Informel style in Czechoslovakia were created during World War II by Josef Istler who belongs to European protagonists of Art Informel movement. In post-war years Istler engaged mostly in painting and monotyping. For this reason it was Vladimír Boudník who became the leading personality of Czech Informel printmaking. In 1949 he declared in two manifestos of "explosionalism" his vision of a new art that he followed and carried out with admirable consistency till the end of his life. In the middle of 1950s Boudník started to elaborate "structural printmaking" - innovative printmaking methods that became a way to fulfil his vision. His work influenced strongly the whole generation of Czech artists and essentially helped to introduce Art Informel to Czechoslovakia against the ideologic resistance of the communist regime. Czech Informel achieved excellent qualities in Europe-wide comparison and "structural printmaking" became its original contribution to the world fine art. Keywords Art Informel,...