Erika Murakami We sometimes find it difficult to make a new friend even in our own culture. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to develop a friendship between people from different cultural backgrounds. In my first month in Brno, I struggled to make new friends and became seriously homesick. In …
Miriam Fischer Me, Myself and My Smartphone Take a look to your left, now take a look to your right. I guess your smartphone is situated within your direct reach. The electronic monitoring system is our constant companion through our daily routine and by now indispensable for most of its users. How else …
Marie Šimáková “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” Robert Frost As Robert Frost states, poetry is first and foremost based on human emotions and these emotions play an important role in the creating and writing process. But how to take advantage …
Joruna Hrabalová The topic of this thesis was familiar to me because I have been working as a sworn interpreter for the past twenty years or so. During this time, I have collected a considerable amount of various terms and expressions that I have found to be complicated in some way or other. They have …
Monika Olejníčková Nowadays, more and more people suffer from extreme stress. Stress has become one of the main causes of many illnesses – from minor troubles such as a headache or a cold, through digestive problems to serious health conditions (physical and psychological), which may end in death. Fortunately, many people have …