Huang Shuheng Culture shock is the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country. However, it is not something we should avoid, instead it is a situation we have to go through and a lesson we should be ready to …
Katarína Lexová Beginnings are hard; just think about your first days at memorable stages of your life: first day at elementary school, new middle school, new highschool, and then one of the most important starts in a person’s life, the university. I have a wonderful privilage to teach first year students, so I have …
A history of one translation When the time came and I found myself faced with the problem of what topic to choose for my diploma thesis I thought it would be nice to write a penetrating analysis of a literary translation. For that purpose I picked out the English translation of Jáchym Topol’s novel Kloktat …
Ondřej Čada Dear Santa, There is one thing you should know And it isn’t that I miss the snow… You see, I have been so good this year Well, naughty too, but I’ll get better, no fear We have no chimney, but I’ll leave the door ajar Now, will …
Dagmar Janíková All of you have surely visited many castles. However, have you ever thought of their function? Writing the thesis has helped me consolidate my beliefs about castles, particularly what functions they had. I could explore adventures, struggles and ambitions of characters like William the Conqueror, Henry II and Edward …