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A Brief Comparison Between Prague School and Danish Structuralism When we are talking about linguistic there will be 3 schools of linguistic; Structuralism, Functionalism and Behaviorism. Structuralism is the first school in psychology. Is the study of elements of consciousness, and focused on breaking down mental process into the most basic components. Structuralism is one of many branches in linguistic that understanding language through identifying and determining the structure and…

The Old Jewish Prague is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. You can see gravestones from various historical periods there: long black Gothic ones, marble stones from the 16 th century, typical Renaissance decoration, mighty Baroque gravestones, and some of the Rococo ones. This cemetery was founded in the April 23, 1439 and is the oldest existing graveyard from the 15th century. This Jewish element has been the foundation of the medieval Prague and has a unique look to it since the…

See geckos and other new babies in Prague ZOO This year, already nine hundred animals have been born in the Prague ZOO. The most recent ones, four gecko babies, are literally a wonder. These four miraculous reptiles helped to variegate the ZOO´s population, together with, for example, a baby giraffe, young vultures, a gorilla cub or a hippo calf. The baby reptiles are a genus of geckos, often referred to as “wonder geckos” (Teratoscincus scincus scincus). And what makes them so miraculous?…

to see our cousins like we do every year. I found out, in middle of sixth grade that we were also going to Prague when we went on our trip to Turkey. I knew I would spend my birthday there, but now, we were going to be in Prague instead! I could feel the butterflies in my stomach because of how excited I was. Something never expected happened when we were in Prague. Two weeks into our Prague trip, we found out that all the airports were closed because there was a terrorist attack in Turkey. I…

survivor giving insight on the social, political, and cultural changes in Prague post World War 2. Kovaly includes stories of the drastic differences that her home city of Prague had endured during the war as they adopted ideals from the Nazi regime. These cultural pressures were forced upon the city and resulted in a different tone of life during the 1950’s. Ultimately resulting in a political upheaval known as the Prague uprising. Kovaly participated in this political event which faced…

refugees. Conditions in the camps were brutal for the 150,000 people trapped there, especially for the children. And no one focused on them until Nicholas Winton. Instead of spending time pondering whether or not he should actually go, he headed to Prague and came up with a plan that would save the children before the war broke out. Winton found camps of refugees living in…

He was mainly known for his pictures of prague and took most of them during the First World War ( July 28 1914 - November 11 1918 ). Josef Sudek was born in 1896 in Kolin, Czech Republic. He was drafted into Hungarian Army in 1915. He got a infection in his arm and had to have it amputated. Josef was introduced to art by his father, who was a painter. One of his dad’s friends introduced him to photography. He studied photography in prague after his amputation. Josef studied at the State…

the remains of the former church can be proved by three round gaps in the floor. The church was consecrated in honour of St. Francis of Assisi in 1668, three years after its finishing. The consecration was carried out by the Prague archbishop Jan Bedřich of Wallenstein. PRAGUE 1 MONUMENTS CENTRAL Church of St. Francis of Assisi (czech: kostel sv. Františka z Assisi) - interior Interesting facts about the church The dominating feature of the church is especially the mighty, forty meters high…

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, the capital of what was then, Bohemia, (a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), to two upper middle class Jewish parents. After studying law at The University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. Before he died Kafka asked Max Brod to destroy all of his writings after his death, but Brod didn’t comply with his wishes. Over the course of…

It was Josef Stalin, the unflappable leader of the USSR through the beginning of the Cold War that said, “everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.” Stalin, in these words, distilled the central conflict of the Cold War: the maintenance of spheres of influence and the purveyance of certain ideologies. For the Soviets, this ideology was Communism, and, more specifically, the new Stalinist strain of Marxism-Leninism, focused on state terror and industrial growth. However,…