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BRAC University Postgraduate Prospectus 2010
(BRAC University, 2010)
Postmodern visions: consumer culture's (re)making of the gaze
(BRAC University, 2010)
Contemporary societies have transformed traditional identities in such a way that we, as subjects of globalization and mass consumer culture, have become tremendously self-conscious of the ‘gaze’ which makes, breaks and ...
Facebook : utopia, dystopia or heterotopia
(BRAC University, 2010)
Social networking sites (SNSs) like Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, Hi5, and MySpace have accelerated and changed the meaning of communication for millions of computer users around the world. The growing number of people ...
Application of sensitivity analysis in self purification of the Surma River , Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2010)
The rivers which flow through a city show an appreciable decline in water quality but they are often difficult to specify the exact cause of deterioration. Also the treatment of pollution of river is very troublesome. This ...
The notion of women as bearers of culture in Monica Ali's Brick Lane
(BRAC University, 2010)
Alistair Cormack (2006) describes Brick Lane as a 'post-colonial story' with a 'realist narrative'; to a post-colonial critic, this has many implications. Yet looking at this text from a feminist point of view has many ...
Promoting learner autonomy on a university course of English for academic purposes
(BRAC University, 2010)
Promoting ‘learner autonomy’ on a course of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) seems to be widely problematic as they, ‘learner autonomy’ and EAP course, are expected to supply both skills and knowledge to the learners ...
An elusive home : Rachel Calof, indoors and out
(BRAC University, 2010)
Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains (Ed. J. Sanford Rikoon, Indiana University Press, 1995) is a first-person memoir of farming in North Dakota from 1894-1917, based on Rachel Calof‟s Yiddish ...
Predicting labour unrest though the lenses of theory of planned behevior : cases from BEPZA
(BRAC University, 2010)
Industrial dispute has been touted as a major constraint in the economy of Bangladesh. While poor management and inadequate institutional factors were widely blamed for the high propensity of industrial dispute, formation ...
Problems Bangladeshi learners face in pronouncing certain English phonemes
(BRAC University, 2010)
Bangladeshi EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners, very naturally, are expected to face problems in pronouncing certain phonemes of English since English is a stress-timed language as opposed to Bangla which is a ...
Specific language impairment - when only language becomes difficult
(BRAC University, 2010)
Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a language disorder that primarily affects oral language selectively. This impairment is not any sudden loss; rather some children are born with this disability. The impaired children ...