Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Title
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Construction of womanhood : reading Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), The God of Small Things (1997), A Golden Age (2007) and The Good Muslim (2011)
(BRAC University, 2015-04)Women’s social position is effected by patriarchy. This thesis will try to show different aspects of patriarchal society that effect the construction of womanhood keeping men in the superior position. . Three distinctly ... -
Contradiction through the ages : interplay of politics in literature and reality in light of nineteen eighty-four and The Hunger Games
(BRAC University, 2015-04)The claim that a democratic state may make about its ‘advanced’ ways of ‘governing’ is where my research interest starts. Having lived in a faulty system all our lives we fail to notice the wrong being committed all ... -
Contrastive analysis of teaching methods implemeted in schools of Dhaka
(BRAC University, 2006-11)Istiaque Ahmed. BRAC University, June 2006. "Contrastive Analysis of Second Language Teaching Methods Implemented in schools in Dhaka" Thesis supervisor Shenin Ziauddin. All aspects of any teaching method are based ... -
A critical analysis of Heart of darkness and Things fall apart: successful or unsuccessful counter-discourse of Conrad’s novella?
(Brac University, 2022-08)This paper aims to conduct a critical analysis of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart and English author Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness to study whether Achebe’s postcolonial novel works as ... -
A critical discourse analysis of Bangladeshi food vlogging language
(Brac University, 2022-05)This study aims to explore the features of the Bangladeshi food vloggers’ language and how they are using language to communicate with their audiences. This research was conducted by using a qualitative method and the ... -
Critical discourse analysis of political talk shows of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2017-04)The present study aim at critically analyzing the underlying ideologies in the political Talk shows in Bangladesh. The study focuses on the content of the discourse of the talk shows to analyze how linguistic features are ... -
Critical period hypothesis : a comparative study between young and adult learners
(BRAC University, 2015-12)Critical Period Hypothesis is one of the central aspects of language acquisition discourse. In this study through a comparative series young and adult learners have been compared on different areas of language and skills ... -
A critical study of graphic novels: spiegelman’s maus and satrapi’s persepolis
(BRAC University, 2016-08)This thesis exhibits how the intense contents and themes of graphic novels can be credible in venturing its way into the academic world of English literature, particularly in Bangladesh. To accomplish this purpose I ... -
The cross-border journey: exploring the unheard trauma, identity crisis, and perpetual pursuit for “Home” in Crossing and Americanah
(Brac University, 2023-01)Cross-border or transnational migration has been a part of human civilization since the beginning, as people moved from one place to another for various reasons before settling down. Taken together, Americanah and Crossing ... -
Cultural evaluation of English for Today
(Brac University, 2020-12)This study explores the local and international cultural imbalance of fifth grade English for Today textbook by NCTB. As a researcher to conduct the evaluation I have followed qualitative method and analyzed relevant ... -
Culture sensitivity and language learning: a tertiary level scenario
(BRAC University, 2011-07)This study is concerned with the existing methods and approaches that are in action at the tertiary level. It attempts to assess the suitability of the current methods that are used in different private universities of ... -
Deconstructing the marginalized female: a reading of Mahasweta Devi’s short stories
(BRAC University, 2014-12)Women’s positions in society, particularly those of marginalized/ peripheral ones positions are very preoccupied with the sense of docility and negligence. Marginalized1 1 The word ‘Marginalized’ used as the substitute ... -
Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome: Racial discrimination in The Bluest Eyes
(Brac University, 2021-05)This thesis focuses on the psychological narrative of the human mind in case of portraying racial thoughts and discrimination. The connection and transference of feelings between the different characters in Toni ... -
Depiction of gender in ELT textbooks: gender stereotyping in language and its effect on secondary level students
(BRAC University, 2018-08)The paper discussed gender stereotyping in ELT textbooks which can be constituted as one of the most significant issues for gender and language research. Through the study conducted for this paper, the portrayal of gender ... -
Depiction of identity disorientation and sexual barbarity: Analysing the racial degradation in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Beloved
(Brac University, 2020-09)This thesis aims to focus on the amalgamated effect of internalized racial identity loss and sexual violence manifested as a power tool in order to control the African American community on The Bluest Eye and Beloved; ... -
Depiction of modern civilization in Yeats, Williams, Pound and Elliot
(BRAC University, 2010-08)Modernism is a remarkable shift from the traditional forms of writing in English literature. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Ezra Pound (1885-1927) and Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965) ... -
Designated Nomads
(Brac University, 2020-09)As a response to the refugee crisis that occurred as an aftereffect of the World War II, the United Nations Organisation had created the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in 1951. The 20th century has witnessed ... -
Desired personality traits of language learners: university level scenario in Bangladesh
(BARC University, 2017-08)This study attempts to find out the desired personality traits of language learners among the university level’s students in Bangladesh. Therefore, this paper explores the five big personality traits of successful language ... -
Despair in Asian literature: exploring Dazai Osamu’s No Longer Human in the light of existentialism, absurdism & critical disability theory
(Brac University, 2022-05)Despair is common to the human experience regardless of any facet of one’s identity. In the course of studying literature in English, we often have little exposure to Asian literature despite Asian literature also ... -
Developing listening and speaking skills in EAP courses: a mixed method study at a private university in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2019-12)This study explores how a pre-university English course helps developing students’ English skills particularly speaking and listening and prepare them to cope with the English skills necessary for the higher studies at the ...