Završni radovi | Repository of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

: Evolucija i znanje; Mia Šepić
U ovom je radu opisan pregled rasprave o evoluciji i znanju i govori se o načinima primjene pojma evolucije.Upoznali smo pojam evolucijske epistemologije i podjelu na evoluciju uma i evoluciju teorija, koju je donio Michael Bradie. Darwin se uključio u raspravu evolucije i znanja pridonijevši svojim razmišljanjem o temi urođenog znanja i temi jezika koji se mijenja sličnim putem kao i organizmi. Nakon Darwina jedan od utjecajnijih filozofa koji se bavio prirodnom selekcijom je bio Karl...

: Evolucionistička antropologija viktorijanskog doba; Paula Maričić
Cilj ovoga rada je prikazati evolucionističku antropologiju karakterističnu za devetnaesto stoljeće. Radom se žele prikazati počeci antropologije kao znanosti. Također, iznose se teze antropologa iz toga doba kroz interpretaciju njihovih radova.Kao znanost, antropologija se utemeljuje sredinom devetnaestog stoljeća zahvaljujući radom sociologa i budućih antropologa budući da je u to vrijeme došlo do učvršćivanja interesa za ljudsku evoluciju.

: Examining the Effectiveness of Tefl Programmes: Perspectives of Students from Two Universities; Monika Telebar
The aim of this study is to examine the perspectives of 35 student teachers’ at two different universities on the extent to which the MA in TEFL programmes are effective in preparing them to be knowledgeable and skillful teachers of English as a foreign language. The two programmes examined are the MA in TEFL programme at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka, Croatia and the MA in English Philology at the Institute of English Studies at the University...

: Exploration of America's Socio-Political Climate and Counterculture in Jack Kerouac's Novel on the Road; Ivana Jovanović
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the socio-political climate of the 1950s United States through the scope of Jack Kerouac’s acclaimed novel On the Road. While referring to the specific excerpts from the novel, the thesis will explore the notion of counterculture and illustrate the socio-political state of the 1950s American society. Since the late 1940s, various authors of the Beat Generation aimed to raise the awareness that American society was blinded by conformity and...

: Exploring the Meaning of Duality in R. L. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Lara Hadžiselimović
This thesis will provide an analysis of the different meanings and interpretations of duality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). In order to achieve this, it will primarily concentrate on Henry Jekyll and his transformed self, Edward Hyde, as representative of Victorian duality. Firstly, the thesis will consider the socio-historical context of the Victorian times, with an emphasis on the concept of the private and public self, as well as the...

: Expressing Emotion in Croatian (L1) and English (L2); Manuela Štefanac
The focus of this thesis is the difference between expressing emotion in the first language and the second language, i.e. in Croatian and English. The thesis is divided into two parts, the theoretical and the practical part, that is, the conducted research. The first part provides general information regarding basic emotion, emotion-laden words and emotion words, the possible influence of cultural, linguistic and contextual factors during the acquisition of languages as well as various...

: Extractive Summarization of Scientific Publications; Lucija Krušić
This Master‟s thesis aims to provide a comprehensive survey of state-of-the art methods used for the task of Automatic Text Summarization. Automatically made summaries can provide great benefits to everyday internet users and enhance the way we search for relevant and necessary information and save time and resources invested in human-made summaries. This thesis provides an overview of the field of ATS and covers the approaches to summarization, the real-world applications of summarization...

: False Friends between English and Italian; Matija Hefler
False friends, false pairs or faux amis are a linguistic phenomenon presenting a great deal of trouble to translators. False friends are two words from different languages that may look and sound similar, but their meaning is either partially or entirely different. This paper is focusing on false friends between just two languages, English and Italian. English, being a global language is one of the most translated ones. When it comes to translating from English to Italian, false friends may...

: Famine, Emigration and Survival in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea; Ivan Žufić
Star of the Sea is a heartfelt and heart-wrenching story that plunges its readers into the depths of dark, brutal Irish history and explores the painful ordeal of the devastating Irish Potato Famine. This thesis will try to explain the circumstances that led to the Great Irish Famine, describe its devastating consequences and show how it is depicted in Joseph O’Connor’s novel Star of the Sea, a novel based on the Famine’s destruction of the Irish community. Furthermore, it will explore...

: Fantastika i groteska u romanu M. M. Bulgakova Majstori i Margarita; Jelena Trbović
Rad je nastao nakon čitanja romana Majstor i Margarita te proučavanja literature koja nam je pomogla u osvjetljavanju zagonetnosti spomenutog djela. Ipak, valja napomenuti kako je ostalo još mnogo prostora za istraživanje, ne samo zagonetke u romanu, već i zagonetke po nazivu život.

: Fantastika u Začaranom ogledalu Frana Galovića i novelistici hrvatske moderne; Filip Šijić
Ovaj se rad bavi analizom novele Začarano ogledalo Frana Galovića te njene fantastične komponente, ali i fantastikom u novelistici hrvatske moderne uopće. Galović je ostavio dubok trag u hrvatskoj moderni svojim mnogim djelima. Njegovo Začarano ogledalo isprepliće stvarnost i fantastiku te istražuje teme smrti i introspekcije. Kroz lik Marcela Petrovića Galović vodi čitatelje na putovanje kroz misteriozne svjetove s njegovom preminulom ljubavi. Ovo djelo istražuje ...

: Fantastične junakinje hrvatske usmene književnosti; Ana Sanković
Zapisi hrvatskih usmenih tradicija i usmena književnost drugih slavenskih zemalja svjedoče o vjerovanjima drevnih Slavena u postojanje različitih fantastičnih bića, posebice onim ženskim, fantastičnim junakinjama, kojima se bavi ovaj završni rad. Rad donosi pregled vjerovanja o fantastičnim ženskim likovima: vješticama, vilama, morâma i suđenicama govoreći o njihovom izgledu, djelovanju, utjecaju na čovjeka, ali i o njegovoj zaštiti od istih. Također se opisuju ...

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