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Postmodernism, community building and online communication: -"Are virtual communities 'real' communities?"
(BRAC University, 2009-07)
This paper serves to analyze the relationship between postmodernism, community building, and the development of online communication. Special emphasis is put on investigating how virtual communities such as facebook have ...
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 ...
Classroom interaction in ESL classrooms: a comparative study between group work and individual work
(BRAC University, 2009-04)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do we need literary texts in language classroom? An investigation on students' perceptions
(BRAC University, 2009-04)
In Bangladeshi English language teaching situation, literary texts are not highly valued. There are several misconceptions regarding the use of literary texts to teach language and this paper has examined this issue from ...
Influence of peers' feedback on the students of tertiary level in second language learning
(BRAC University, 2009-12)
This research attempts to find out which type of feedback is more influential on students at the tertiary level. Both teacher’ and peers’ feedback are important for second language learning but the influence by peer’s ...
Theme of otherness and writing back: a cotrapuntal analysis of colonial and postcolonial novels
(BRAC University, 2009-12)
The British Empire spanned the Indian subcontinent, Australia, almost half of Africa, parts of North America and the Caribbean Islands during the colonial era and subjugated the people of these lands both physically and ...
Teacher's role as a motivator facilitator of the department of English and humanities of BRAC University
(BRAC University, 2009-05)
Twenty students from the department of BRAC University participated in this research and this research attempts to find out teacher’s role as a motivator and facilitator for teaching English as a second language. The ...