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Post-Brexit Britain According to the Acting British Ambassador
By Markéta Šonková On March 29, Theresa May triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. With such a step, she commenced a two-year process of the UK exiting the EU. This decision is also the result of last year’s referendum, known simply as Brexit, where the Leave campaign won by a slight, yet decided,…
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“My posting to Prague is definitely the nicest place I have ever been posted to”: Interview with Her Excellency Jan Thompson OBE
By Markéta Šonková and Anna Formánková Her Majesty’s Ambassador Jan Thompson has been in the Czech Republic for almost four years. Although she has spent lengthy periods in tough places, including war zones, during her diplomatic career, her job in Prague is no walk in the park either: she has to make sure that the…
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MNMLSM
by Bára Skorkovská The internet connects people, making the spread of new ideas and comparison of lifestyles easier than ever. But with all the new and exciting information comes the fear of being lost in the wide world, of being forgotten, and of not living life to the fullest. Many people spend the most productive…
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Fanart Activism: Fan Participation as a Tool for Representation and Diversity Awareness
by Tereza Walsbergerová Watching a film or a TV show, listening to a podcast, or reading a book, every once in awhile there comes a point when one thinks, “dang, I wonder if any character in this will ever look, feel or act like me.”. At that point, many turn to fanfiction – a great…
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Life on Social Media: Instagirls and the Rise of Micro-celebrity
By Dominika Kováčová How many ‘likes’ did my last photo get? Has the number of my followers increased recently? Which filter should I use in my Instagram Story? – does this sound familiar? If so, you may be on your way to becoming an online celebrity!
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Letter from Abroad: Greetings from Washington
By Natália Poláková In the first place, I don’t want you to get confused. I am writing from Bellingham, in the State of Washington, home to Western Washington University, not Washington D.C., home to President Trump. This place rather wants to distance itself from Trump – but I will get to politics a bit later.
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Taking Pictures with a Matchbox
by Helena Brunnerová That day I spent the morning photoshopping walls (which is a part of my job), and the afternoon and evening translating a text on the history of photography; at 11 p.m., as I watched white smoke rising from my battery charger, I felt inspired to try an alternative to digital. I wanted…
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Art Makes Us Stronger
By Anna Jílková and Michaela Medveďová When trying to answer a simple question – what is art – one may come to realize that this question is, indeed, very tricky. At least the search for the answer is. The definition varies from one person to another – what one considers to be art someone else may…
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Adaptation is characteristic of everything – of all life, all disciplines and all media: Interview with Kamilla Elliott
By Blanka Šustrová It would not be an exaggeration to claim that all of us have experienced some type of adaptation during our lifetime already. People often go to the cinema to watch movies based on their favourite books, play games based on their favourite movies and then read books based on the games.…
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Just a Bloke from Stratford: Upstart Crow Review
By Blanka Šustrová Our hero lives in a small cottage somewhere in Warwickshire. He has to feed and clothe his old, grumpy parents together with his wife (eight years older) and their three children – a mopey teenager that only speaks in grunts and twins whose only interests are sweets. He commutes to London every…