• Documentary-Making Methodology: Step-by-Step Documentation of Life after Grey 

  Haque, Muhammed Shahriar (East West University, 1/1/2015)

  One of the unnoticed snares of a first-time documentary filmmaker, besides insufficient research and clear objective(s), is lack of specific knowledge of research methodology. Documentary filmmaking is a separate genre, ...
• Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA): Evidence for Bangla-English Learning Bilingual Child’s Phonological Development 

  Parveen, Shapla (East West University, 1/1/2015)

  This article falls within the domain of “bilingual first language acquisition”. It discusses the early phonological development of a Bangla-English learning bilingual child at 12 months of age focusing on the occurrences ...
• The Urge for ‘X-treme’: Super-Human Syndrome Followed by the Morality of Viciousness 

  Taslim, Israt (East West University, 1/1/2015)

  X-treme is considered to be a new popular phenomenon which brings out the hidden fantasy of any normal human being, to test every possible limitation till the ultimate extent. Though the practice of extreme is considered ...
• Undergraduates’ Novel Experiences with Massive Open Online Courses 

  Hasan, Md. Masudul (East West University, 1/1/2015)

  Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have revolutionized e-learning contexts through improvising new technology on its pedagogical features. Recently, much debate has been directed to the application of MOOCs in relation ...
• The House on Mango Street: Searching for Identity 

  Sultana, Rajia (East West University, 1/1/2015)

  This paper studies a Chicana adolescent Esperanza Cordero’s search for a “self” that she believes is essential to come out from the prevailing suppression she observes as a woman and as a Mexican-American. She realizes ...
• An Existential Reading of Family Ties 

  Jahan, Israt (East West University, 1/1/2015)

  Examining different characters of Family Ties (Lispector, 1972), the present paper aims at demonstrating Clarice Lispector’s projection of ties at various different levels often starting with family ties, stretching between ...
• Representing the Unrepresentable in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day 

  Osman, Khan Touseef (East West University, 1/1/2015)

  This article looks closely at Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day from the critical perspective of trauma studies with a particular focus on the representational crisis posed by individual and collective catastrophic events. ...
• Creative Writing in English and EFL Students: Finding Motivation in Self-expression 

  Dougherty, Patrick (East West University, 1/1/2015)

  This article details an investigation of the application of creative writing to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at two universities, one in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the other in Dhaka, ...
• Authorized Honesty: The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul 

  Idris, Farhad Bani (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  No acquaintance of V. S. Naipaul could possibly imagine that during the scattering of Pat Naipaul’s ashes, the Quran was recited, but the author, highly acclaimed for both his fiction and non-fiction but also known for his ...
• The Powerlessness of Cameroon’s Reunification Monuments 

  NFI, Joseph Lon PhD (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  This study attempts to investigate the symbolism and popularity of the Reunification Monuments constructed in Yaounde and Mamfe some years after the political reunification of the two Cameroons. These monuments were ...
• Western Democracy in Africa as a Failed Project: Which Way Forward? 

  Nkwi, Walter Gam PhD (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  The role of democracy in societal transformation and nation-building in Sub-Saharan Africa has been compromised by political and social strictures created during more than three decades of autocratic rule of most countries ...
• Homologizing Accident: Notes on Warhol’s Car Crashes 

  Sarkar, Abhishek (East West University, 2/1/2013)

  This paper focuses on some paintings by Andy Warhol depicting car crashes to demonstrate how he uses them not only to underscore the commodity fetishism of contemporary capitalism but also subversively to undermine such ...
• Resistance of Achebe’s ‘Heroes’ Okonkwo and Obi Okonkwo: Defeated in the Flux of Nigerian Society? 

  Sharmin, Sonia (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  This paper analyzes the resistance of Achebe’s two ‘heroes’ Okonkwo, the protagonist of Things Fall Apart, and Obi Okonkwo, the protagonist of No Longer at Ease. While Okonkwo takes up arms to preserve culture and tradition ...
• Re-presenting the margins: revisiting the Scottish countryside in L. G. Gibbon’s Sunset Song 

  Dasthakur, Saurav (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  In his The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists Raymond Williams comments on the gradual institutionalization of the dominant (Anglo-American) version of modernism and the co option of its subversive possibilities ...
• The Theme of Crisis in the Poetry of Yeats and Eliot 

  Mozumder, Subrata Chandra (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the crisis of modern society in their poetry. Both poets were concerned about the disorderly and fragmented social condition of their time – a time of political turmoil, anarchy and ...
• Rabindranath Tagore and the Politics of Imagination: Nation, Gender, and Global Justice 

  De, Esha Niyogi (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  This paper focuses on Tagore’s increasing activism and his bid to persuade his readers in his later works of the importance of thinking globally and abandoning exclusionary perspectives. It shows how he strove in his writing ...
• Court vs. Courtship in Jane Austen’s Emma 

  Mortuza, Shamsad (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  The paper examines the royal dedication of Jane Austen’s Emma as a critical engagement with the regency crisis. Austen decided to comply with a royal request to dedicate Emma to the Prince Regent and inserted it almost as ...
• The Effect of Accent(s) and Pronunciations(s) of English on Bangladeshi English Language Learners’ Listening Skill Acquisition Process 

  Zarin, Ismat (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  Listening, the most vital skill in language acquisition, is often regarded also as the most difficult skill to attain by second language learners. This study investigates Bangladeshi English language learners’ problems in ...
• Discourse Structures in Bangladeshi Educational Advertisements: A Critique 

  Haque, Muhammad Shariar (East West University, 1/1/2013)

  It is virtually impossible to get away from advertising, yet we know so little about it. Visual (pictorial) and verbal (textual) elements in advertisements mesh to send the appropriate message to the target audience. ...
• Investing in the Culture Industry to Enhance Economic Growth in West Africa 

  Kah, Henry Kam (East West University, 7/1/2012)

  This essay examines the role culture can play in effectively advancing economic growth in West Africa through the agency of the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) and the different national governments. ...

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