Czechs

personal are similar, as my personality was influenced by my family’s morals and lessons I was taught by them. Taking pride in being Czech is a part of my personality and was provided by my family. However, they are different as well. My cultural and social identities are different because my cultural is more about Czech Republic and my family immigrating from Czech Republic to the United States. While my social identity is more about my friends and social media. My cultural and personal also…

and a candle inside, trick-or-treating, Halloween’s parties and mask’s parades. This feast becomes more popular in the whole world. On the other side, All Souls’ Day or Dušičky in Czech are connected with quiet time and the traditions are vanishing. Nevertheless, All Souls’ Day has diverse forms in other places. While Czechs grieve over their deceased the others celebrate and have a good…

bully her in Czech, she would have cried. Women in Czech do not stand up for themselves, which implies that they are weak and less than the boy bullying her. After a long day of work, women come home “to cook, clean and serve their husbands” (Porizkova). Although Porizkova is implying that there is a problem with serving the needs of others before oneself, she is showing a clear need for feminism. She shows feminism’s importance by writing about the damage she witnessed within the Czech society.…

Syria following a civil war. This civil war has displaced an estimated 7.6 billion people whom the majority of have fled to Europe. Members of the European union such as Hungary, Denmark and the Czech Republic are pushing back against the refugees, using anti-immigration tactics to keep the refugees out. The Czech Republic has passed laws making the crossing of fences into the country illegal, to prevent refugees from coming over their borders, the Danish government has implemented regulations…

out that the Czech Republic has seen a slight rise in the number of treated diabetics. More than half the Czech population do not comply with the recommended level of physical activity and there is an excessive consumption of unhealthy, sugary, salty, and fatty foods. About 50% of the middle aged population is obese. These are all factors that are strongly linked to diabetes. The implementation of a diabetes program similar to the one at the Doubletree Hotel may be difficult in the Czech…

all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they are equal everywhere, and there are really no such thing as foreigners; there are only free men,” said Michael Shaara author of The Killer Angels: a Novel of the Civil War (1975) This quote packs a powerful message. There are several different meanings that I have taken from this quote. The first being that that all of mankind was created equal and gives he gives examples ranging from Blacks to Czechs, and the second meaning being that…

Trump’s campaign was building a wall across the border of Mexico. Trump said, “They’re bringing drugs They’re bringing crime They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” [sic]1 Havel lived in the Czech Republic, a government that frowned upon immigration and those whom did not support the Czech President. (Havel 407) From under the oppression of his government, his inspiration to write about the Power of the Powerless grew. Havel was disturbed by the fact that his people were forced to…

was of a more stable, wiser man, unrest grew in the empire. Since 1957, Novotny, the leader of the communist party in Czechoslovakia had been very unpopular. He was a hard line communist who hadn't introduced any reforms to improve the life of the Czech people and of particular frustration to people was how slow he was to release political prisoners following the Second World War. His unpopularity grew when the economy, which was initially very good, started to decline.…

Austria, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland and many more were affected by the political unrest that sparked nationalism. Composers such as Bedrich Smetana, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Jean Sibelius, Edward Grieg,…

felt in the Czech Republic. Huss was born into a peasant family and graduated from the University of Prague (Charles University). He began lecturing at the university in 1398 and served as rector twice. Huss was ordained a priest in 1400. At this time many religious leaders were demanding church reforms, Split by the Great Schism of the West, the church had two rival popes (later three). Huss accepted the ideas of the English reformer John Wycliffe and translated his works into Czech. He…