Browsing Department of English and Humanities (ENH) by Title
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The lens of Print Media Journalism in “Op-ed” and “Editorial” section at The Daily Observer
(Brac University, 2021-05-20)This internship has been completed by joining three months internship program in The Daily Observer. The main purpose of this internship is to observe the application of theoretical knowledge into a practical one. The ... -
Lessons learned from COVID-19 for a blended language learning model: tertiary level students’ preferences for online synchronous and asynchronous learning
(Brac University, 2022-12)Education during the pandemic was challenging at many levels, but amidst the crisis, educational administrators worked hard in implementing a curriculum which is quite heavily reliant on computer-assisted language learning ... -
Let down your hair Mrs. Maas: interpreting Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
(BRAC University, 2014-04)My paper examines the idea that in the novel The Crying of Lot 49, the obscure plot is mostly interpreted as the post modern adoption of a world famous fairytale Rapunzel. In The Crying of Lot 49, there is an odd sense ... -
The linguistic development of children with cerebral palsy
(BRAC University, 2013-04)Children of CP (Cerebral Palsy) undergo reasonable delay in the acquisition of language along with some other acquisitions such as logical reasoning, motor ability, etc. The focus of this research paper is to observe the ... -
Literature as a lens: examining racial injustice in America through African American texts
(Brac University, 2024-01)The paper explores how the contemporary problems of the black community mirror those of the old ones. It uses African American literature to find a connection between problems from years or decades ago and the ones currently ... -
Literature as a liberating space for 19th century women: a close reading of the selected works of Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte and Kate Chopin
(Brac University, 2019-12)This thesis fundamentally aims to look at the question of the potency of literature as a space through which women can assert their existence. Literature has been used as a force for social reformation and has been used ... -
Looking at Virginia Woolf: women and society
(BRAC University, 2015-08)This paper looks at two essays, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), of Virginia Woolf to study the position of English women living in the late nineteenth to first half of the twentieth century. These ... -
Love, longing and commemoration: a study of Chakma culture through the Ubogeet
(Brac University, 2021-05)Bangladesh is home to more than forty-five indigenous groups who are mostly located in the north (east and west), the south and southeast regions of the country. The Chittagong Hill Tracts is home to nearly 70% of the ... -
Mackay revisited: the case of Javanese-Australian Muslims, 1880-1999
(© 2007 Scalabrini Migration Center., 2007)The development of Queensland's sugar industry in the nineteenth century led to an influx of non-European laborers, such as Melanesians, Cingalese and Javanese. Years later, under the Immigration Restriction Act, 1901, ... -
Madness and Women: A reading of three women's novels
(BRAC University, 2010-12)The state of madness is often associated with women. This paper will try to reveal the situations which drive a woman into mental imbalance. Three phases of female life are explored here- adolescence, youth and middle-age ... -
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 ... -
Magical realism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
(Brac University, 2021-09)The term ‘magical realism’ is an amalgamation of oxymorons. The narrative mode allows you to discuss different perspectives on reality. The main object of this thesis is to do research study of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s ... -
Making news at the sports bit
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Manipulation of human mind through the power of discourse: a study on Bangladeshi call center conversations
(BRAC University, 2016-03)This study focused on the power of discourse and how it is being used by the call center agents to manipulate human mind. The specific objectives of this study are: 1) to explore the usage of discourse in Bangladeshi call ... -
Marginalization of black women from slavery to contemporary time: Exploration of self-identity and self-assertion
(BRAC University, 2020-09)The African Americans had been tortured and subjugated since the time of slave trade when they were brought to America. Women of African American community had to face more subjugation than the male one. They were the ... -
Marginalization of women in south asia: women novelists’ perspective
(BRAC University, 2014-08)This thesis looks into the position of women in three significant novels written in English by South Asian authors, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy ... -
A marxist reading of fitzgerald’s novel: The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned
(BRAC University, 2016-04)Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s great novels The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned are at the heart of my thesis. Tales of Romantic love and unfulfilled passion on the surface, these two novels are based on a capitalist ... -
A marxist reading of Fitzgerald’s Novel: The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned
(BRAC University, 2016-04)Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s great novels The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned are at the heart of my thesis. Tales of Romantic love and unfulfilled passion on the surface, these two novels are based on a capitalist ... -
Materials design: preparing writing materials for language classes
(BRAC University, 2019-04)I got the opportunity to conduct my internship in Sydney International School which is an English medium school, situated in Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh for twelve weeks. During the period, I observed some classes as ... -
Meaning communicated online chat
(BRAC University, 2015-12)The aim of this paper is to give a deeper look on how people perceive message, information correctly in online chats; in spite of the absence of non-verbal actions. Since people now-a-days are more into online chats rather ...