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Alternative solar water heater for domestic purpose
(BRAC University, 2009-08)
In this report we aimed to incorporate solar energy in the domestic household. We designed a system that would allow the user to attain hot water in an efficient and cheap manner. Every household has domestic electric water ...
An evaluation of the reading skills of English of the students of class ten in Bengali medium schools
(BRAC University, 2007-04)
This thesis aims at evaluating the English Reading Skills of students of class ten in two Bengali Medium schools in Dhaka. It tries to identify both the strengths and weaknesses of reading skills of English with a view to ...
The rise and evolution of revenge tragedy
(BRAC University, 2009-04)
For the people of all ages drama has always been one of the most favorite forms of literature. Within the genre of drama, there are various forms of plays. However, it is seen that a particular form of play becomes popular ...
Representation of women in advertisements
(BRAC University, 2008-08-14)
Magic realism: Mingling of fantasy and reality, tragedy and comedy in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's one hundred years of solitude and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children
(BRAC University, 2009-08)
Stories are always fascinating to every walk of life, but stories with magical or fantastical elements with of fairies or ghosts always amuse people. However, being a student of literature, I got an opportunity to look ...
Translations of Shakespeare: his texts and theatre in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2006-11)
Translation of Shakespeare has a long history in the region of Bengal. It began in 1809 when Charles Monckton, a student of Fort William College, translated a few excerpts from Tempest into Bangla. Since then, there have ...
Trapped in desire: Feminine desire and interracial complexities
(BRAC University, 2008-12)
This paper seeks to look at the complexities related to feminine desire as racial issues get combined with it. I will focus on how white female sexuality copes with race issues by looking into two novels and a play. I hope ...
Writing as discovering: exploring clearing nonfiction
(BRAC University, 2009-04)
Creative nonfiction is often called the "fourth genre" after prose, poetry and drama. It is a new genre that often causes confusion because the name sounds like an oxymoron. Indeed, it deals with facts and real events, but ...
The portrayal of marriage and feminine sexuality in some women's writings
(BRAC University, 2009-04)
Both in contemporary and historical times ‘marriage’ has been considered as one the most important social institutions. The benefits of marriage are undeniable, yet in most of the cases the restrictions and bindings imposed ...
Thomas Hardy and romantic trditions
(BRAC University, 2008-04)
This thesis aims at drawing a link between Ramanticism and Victorian novelist, poet and short story writer Thomas Hardy's . Since my third semester in BRAC University English Department. I have been in love with Thomas Hardy.