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Between garrulity and utility - the impact of talk shows
(BRAC University, 2010)
This paper seeks to highlight the increasingly meaningful role that the television talk shows have acquired over the last few decades. In the West where the talk show featured first, it created a profound effect on the ...
Fantasy and the Jonsonian Masque
(BRAC University, 2010)
This paper highlights Jonson's portrayal of contemporary psychology of fantasy where absurd ideas vanish and the positive aspects of reality and beauty exist. To portray this “paradoxical” approach to fantasy, Jonson took ...
Same old, same old: from boring to creative presentation
(BRAC University, 2011)
This study compares attitudes of tertiary-level students in Australia and Bangladesh towards the use
of technology in lectures and seminars. Students were shown audiovisual recordings of two
seminars. The content and ...
Pharmaceutical use for common cough and cold inunder-five children
(BRAC University, 2012-12)
Introduction: There is a burgeoning epidemic of antibiotic resistance in low-income countries, and pharmaceutical use is on the rise even in rural areas. It is important to understand how caregivers and drug sellers use ...
Seasonal siitfting and its impact on crop production: local community perception of Satkhira district
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016)
In Bangladesh, climate change apparently has started to affect the climatic parameters which cause
seasonal shifting and the behavior of different seasoos. This kind of pheoomeoon is currently
posing a serious threat to ...
Woman as ‘other’ in the short stories of contemporary Bangladeshi writers
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
Women, irrespective of all classes, races, religions and societies, have always been confined to particular roles sanctioned by the male-dominated society. The patriarchal ideologies regard women as “sexual objects” or ...
From "Now-here" to "Nowhere" : the spatial aesthetics of postmodernism
(BRAC University, 2010)
With the waning of the age of modernism, time has ceased to have a primary role in shaping people’s psychological and cultural expressions. Time has given way to space and a new understanding of spatiality, which has been ...
BRACU Express - Spring 17 - Issue 3
(BRAC University, 2017-03-14)
Mother and transgendered son: a study of gender role conflict in Sherwood Anderson’s “mother”
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
In a conventional society men are expected to be masculine. Unlike women, they must be resolute, authoritarian and truculent. In comparison to men, women are presumed to exhibit feminine gender traits like submissiveness, ...
BRAC University Postgraduate Prospectus 2010
(BRAC University, 2010)