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Evaluation Developing Critical Thinking: A Case Study of Teaching a Hemingway Story
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 201-12) Sharif, Mohd. Yasin
English Literature is generally taught at tertiary level in Bangladesh to develop the critical and analytical ability of students, so as to enable them to develop their own evaluation and assessment of texts studied in classrooms. Such assumption often proves in vain, because even tertiary level students depend more on their cognitive capacity rather than their creative ability. Thus the ability of a student to think critically seldom grows because critical thinking (ct) is a faculty which only increases with practice and concentration. This paper endeavors to explore critical thinking ability as an important aspect of pedagogy which further enables a learner to be self-confident and inspirational in using his/her acquired knowledge both in the academy as well as in real life situations. The main focus of the paper is the traditional or classical process of literature study in classroom situations we usually practice in this part of the world to develop the psychology, thought process, and maturity of a learner. Literature is thought to have the power to develop or to create curiosity in learners in finding out the critical situation of real world. Again literature is believed to be a collection of characters, reflection of real life, absurdity, and the hundreds and thousands of problems and solutions to be encountered by a learner everyday which develops the faculty in learners to adjust or overcome hurdles in real life. Thus the paper through the analysis of a popular American short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway tries to address the problems and solutions related to the teaching/development of critical thinking ability.
Fralippolippi: Browning's Reflections on life and Art
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, 2004-12) Anis, Rehnuma Bint
Fhc stall' q/i11kllcd11t1! m1io.ril)' in the lll'l'!l(Jjinl (£'111!11J ir /h(I/ thm• i.r 110 publichy accepted moral and emotional Truth, there are onh perspectives towards it ¬those partial meanings which individuals may get a glimpse of at particular moments but which, formulated as idms for other moments and people, heco111t pmhlt111attca/. The empiricism in Robert Browning's dramatic monologne, 'Ira Lippo Lippi, as demonstrated by its diseq11ilih1i11111 hd1JJet'11 ._r)'111puth)' <111dj11r(ge111mt, ir (/ .r{gn that it imitates not life but a particular perspective towards life, somebody's experience of it. Rolm1 13ro1v11i,1/, gi11e.r 11.r hi.r OJ/JI/ 11enio11 q/ Tmth, aho11/ !tjif and ,111, as he sal/J it, in one o/ his most delightful and re1•1:ali1(g dm111lllir mo110/o_g11es, 'Fm Lippo Lippi'. [,/,''e find in Browning's poetry what our age most needs, faith which is adequate and co11si.rtl'III with 011r i111ellect11al mlt,m, and which indicates the directio11 it1 1vhid1 JJJI' t1111st look for the 1dig,io11 q/ theji1t11re, Thir paptr explort.r !ht pmpose q/ 1(/i- 011 this earth in the light of Browning's reflections on life and art in 'Ira Lippo Lippi'.
E-Commerce & E-Payments: Islamic Perspective
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2004-12) Islam, Md Monirul
Now a days e-commerce and e-payments plays a great role to enhance business policies as well as our life style. I have studied both conventional and Islamic perspective of e-commerce and e-payments procedures. In Islam pay in advance is allowed with certain conditions. So I proposed a method of e-commerce and e-payments which is permissible by Islamic shariah. Muslims also can take the advantages of those modern policies if we can adjust the procedures with the teachings of Islam.
Employee-Employer Perception Towards Healthcare Scheme for Employees of Business Enterprises in Bangladesh
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2004-12) Uddin, Mohammed Asraf; Alam, Mohammad Mofidul; Hossain, Shahadat
There is an increasing need for the management of the large and medium scale businesses to provide health care schemes for their employees as people in all areas as well as commercial area are becoming more health conscious. This study firstly aims at understanding the present status of health care facilities available at the workplace from the viewpoint of both employees and employers. The study then asked the respondents whether a health care scheme is feasible in their organizations and how could they benefit from the health care scheme. Some actions have been suggested in terms of the overall findings that were revealed in the study. Finally the prospect of such health care scheme has been evaluated to understand how far would employers go in keeping their workers happy for ensuring health care for this vulnerable sector.
Bacon's Ideas in his Essays: A Study from the Perspective of Islam
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2004-12) Kabir, Mohammad Humayun
The paper aims at examining Francis Baconâs ideas in his Essays from the point of view of Islam. Taking some representative essays of Francis Bacon, I have tried to find out those ideas in these essays which are conflicting with Islamic ideas. Here I have also identified some baseless statements of bacon about our Prophet Mohammad (SM) and the Muslim ummah and Baconâs allegation against Hazrat Mohammad (SM) has also been refuted. A threadbare analysis of Baconâs ideas as revealed in the Essays has been done in the light of the Holy Quran. Here it is also discussed how Baconian ideas are harmful to mankind and for human civilization in general.
The Use of Geometric Conceits in Exposition of Love in Metaphysical Poetry
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Uddin, Md. Eftekhar
The language, used by Metaphysical poets is highly evocative and infused with multi-dimensional meaning. It demands comprehension and sensitivity on the part of the reader to grasp out the inner aspect of a poem. Love, being a universal feeling gets expression through the hands of different poets in different ways. The exposition of love in Metaphysical poems has shaped up in a unique way because of the juxtaposition of geometry in it. Straight line and circular line are the two components of geometry. Straight line being regarded as imperfect one as it has no limit and end is used as a vehicle to convey the imperfection of love in Metaphysical poems. On the other hand, circular line, being treated as a perfect one is used to express a harmonious union of love between human beings and also between God and human being. The article aims at exploring such conflation of love with geometry in the poetic works of John Donne, Henry Vaughn, Andrew Marvell and George Herbert, the four major Metaphysical Poets Since the origins of.
The Woman Question in the novels by the Bronte Sisters
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Anis, Rehnuma Bint
The Victorian period lasted more than half a century. During this time England changed radically in almost all respects. One of these was the rising consciousness of women about their rights and potentials. Soon, the social awareness was transmitted to literature. In retrospect we find that many women writers emerged at this critical juncture in history when women were pleading to be given voice, to achieve their rights and to be given an opportunity to come out of the shells of quiet submission enforced upon them and achieve something of their own. Three sisters living deep in the Yorkshire moors surprised the world by taking part in this ongoing struggle. This article attempts to evaluate their contributions towards achieving women’s rights in English history.
Sayyid Mawdudi's Contribution towards Islamic Revivalism
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Ushama, Thameem; Osmani, Noor Mohammad
Informal Islamic Education and its Role in Human Resource Development in Society: A Theoretical Evaluation
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Alam, Kamiz Uddin Ahmed; Muzahid, Mohammad Aman Uddin
This article attempts to focus on Islamic education in the informal setting, its correspondence with human resource development and the role of this development to create a sound and balanced environment in society with moral and spiritual values. Firstly, the paper addresses education and its function in general and then education from Islamic perspective. Secondly, it discusses the character of informal Islamic education, the role players of the field of informal Islamic education, their status as teachers, the role of a teacher, the competencies of a teacher, and teacher - learner relationship in the light of Islamic culture and heritage. Finally, a proposal on the specific subject of Informal Islamic education and the strategies of imparting it are presented in the article.
Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”: Reflections on Imperialism and Neoimperialism
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Alam, Mohammed Sarwar
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over last four or five centuries. The world has moved from the colonial to post-colonial era or neo imperialism. Throughout the period, the imperialists have changed their grounds and strategies in imperialistic rules. But the ultimate objective has remained the same- to rule and exploit the natives with their multifaceted dominance-technological, economic and military. Through dominance with these, they have been, to a great extent, successful in establishing their racial and cultural superiority. George Orwell is popularly known to be an anti-imperialist writer. This paper, I believe, will lead us to an almost different conclusion. Here, we discover the inevitable dilemma in a disguised imperialist. We discover the seeds of imperialism under the mask of anti-imperialism. In this regard, it studies his revealing short story “Shooting an Elephant”. It also humbly approaches to refute Barry Hindess’ arguments supporting neo imperialism.
Management Historians in the 1990s: A Review of Their Lives & Prime Contributions.
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Huda, S. S. M. Sadrul; Sobhani, Farid Ahammad; Zubayer, Mahmud
The Management History Division (MHD) of the Academy of Management, NY records critical and scholarly discussion, refection and research in the arena of management history. It supports the development of historically informed analyses and explorations of management practices and of management philosophy and thought. The authors aim at focusing on three key members of MHD i.e. Charles Deck Wrege, James C. Worthy, and Alfred A Bolton who have contributed a lot in the field of management history during 1990s. Each of them has significant contribution to the area of management history and each has proved himself a teacher and intellectual leader in matters of fundamental concern to management history.
The need of Uniform Islamic Constitution for the Muslim Ummah: A study of Islamic provisions on the Constitution of selected countries.
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Khan, Md. Abdul Awal
Islam is a complete code of life as stated in the holy Quran (3:19), which is the prime source of Islamic Constitution. Al-Quran, therefore, regulates the life of a human being and Constitution for the Muslim Ummah to govern their country. Hazrat Muhammad (sm) taught the Muslims to maintain, preserve, and consolidate and to strengthen fraternal relations and unity among Muslims which was extended to the Khulafa-e-Rashedin regime and then Abbasid and Osmania Khilafat. At that time Muslim states were governed according to the provisions of Al-Quran and Sunnah. But at present, the Muslim Countries have departed from the Al-Quran and Sunnah. Muslims Ummah lost its central power with the end of Osmania Khilafat. Later much Muslim territory became independent one after another but they imposed more importance on geographical position, language, culture and history rather than Islam. They included in their Constitution secular, socialist, capitalist ideology and they touched some Islamic provisions in their Constitution just to give it Islamic color. Many Muslim states have enacted many anti-Islamic provisions in their Constitution too. This article is aimed at finding and highlighting such provisions and to make a comparison among selected Constitutions of Muslim states. This article also suggests the Muslim states to enact uniform Constitution for the Muslim Ummah.
Ambivalence: The Divided Selfin Sylvia Plath’s Poetry
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Sharif, Mohd.Yasin
Ambivalence, mixed good and bad feelings about particular entity, individual or circumstance, became a ruling passion in Sylvia Plath’s life. These ambivalence and breakdown are closely dealt with in her poems. Confessional poets usually reveal their own personal experiences without straining excruciating sentiment. Sylvia Plath, one of the 1960s most influential confessional poets used the same resentment and anguish that developed from her personal grief as the subject of many of her poems. SP is well known among the celebrities for her ambivalence schizophrenic, schizoid and paranoid nature. As an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, ambivalence dominated both her works as well as her life. This ambivalent personality of SP made her and her works obscure and bizarre to the readers. Many of her poems bear the evidence of narcissism, self-hatred, deep attachment and simultaneously deep hatred towards her dear and near ones. The present study is an endeavor to interpret this complex ambivalent personality of SP in light of her poems, her journals and her letters where she clearly confesses all her neurotic obsessed activities directly, honestly and sincerely without any hesitation. The study will also dug out the true logical reasons that lead to the suicide of a blooming star in her makeup.
‘Frailty, Thy Name is Woman’ – How Frail are Women in the World of Shakespeare?
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006-12) Rahman, Muhammad Safiur
This paper attempts to understand a remarkable point whether we can argue, quoting Hamlet’s remark ‘frailty, thy names woman’, that Shakespeare is a misogynist. With that end in view it analyses the situations which lead Hamlet to hold a special kind of prejudice against women. Hence, it examines the justification of his misogynistic remarks in the play. Here the chief concern is whether it is Shakespeare’s viewpoint or the view of his character Hamlet; and whether it is deep-rooted, well-thought one or momentary one. Some women characters in several other plays of Shakespeare have been studied, in an endeavor to compare their roles, and to see whether they all show weakness, or some of them surpass the male characters around them in their respective plays. The focus has always been simply on the point whether women are generally frail in the world of Shakespeare. The paper concludes that Hamlet’s view does not represent the general view of women in Shakespearean literature; rather it is a sweeping generalization of the misogyny of a young man who has, somehow, been betrayed by women in his life.
Display Unit for Bangla Characters
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2007-12) Rahman, Mohammad Osiur; Khan, Mohammad Aktaruzzaman
Segmented representation is used in lieu of the dot matrices representation for alphanumeric characters of different languages. Due to concerns of cost, power loss and design complexity, the segmented representation becomes more popular over the dot matrices. There are very limited display units for English, Arabic, and Bangla alphanumeric characters. 18-segments display is normally used to display the entire alphabetic character of English. But there is no standard display unit for Bangla Alphabetic Characters. Although recently different segmented display models for Bangla characters have been proposed, the quality of the characters stay below the mark. In this paper, 26-segments display for Bangla alphabetic character has been proposed. From the review it appears that it is the first proposed display in the world for Bangla Alphabetic Character. Here a grid structure consisting of 26 segments has been discovered. All Bangla characters vowel and consonants can be characterized by using this grid structure. As there can be at least vowels (12), consonants (39), punctuation, and some other symbols to be displayed, 6-bit inputs are used to represent each character. After analyzing which segments will be activated for which character, appropriate logic function and circuits have been derived in order to display each Bangla character. Finally, a comparative analysis is made among the different proposed segmented display models to find out the cost and effectiveness in terms of display quality, power loss, and design complexity.
Helena Charles's Arrival and Departure in John Osborne's Play Look Back in Anger
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2007-12) Haque, Salma
John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger created history in England when it was first staged on 8 May 1956. It depicts the disillusionment and rebelliousness of post-war youth in Britain. The suffering hero Jimmy Porter is the representative of this generation with nowhere to go. Having lost the war against society he fights for a place of his own in domestic relationships and dominates the action of the play. Though "Look Back in Anger is the one- man play per excellence." 1 Helena Charles, the friend of Jimmy's wife Alison, makes her presence felt in spite of his dominance in the play by her guts who stands up to Alison's defense. Later she falls to Jimmy's bait easily, becomes something like his mistress and then leaves him and thus paves the way for a reconciliation between the husband and the wife. This paper aims at studying Helena's arrival and departure and how do they contribute to the reunion of the estranged couple.
The impact of the First World War on the poetry of Wilfred Owen
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2007-12) Mahmud, Mohammad Riaz
In 1914 the First World War broke out on a largely innocent world, a world that still associated warfare with glorious cavalry charges and the noble pursuit of heroic ideals. This was the world’s first experience of modern mechanized warfare. As the months and years passed, each bringing increasing slaughter and misery, the soldiers became increasingly disillusioned. Many of the strongest protests made against the war were made through the medium of poetry by young men horrified by what they saw. They not only wrote about the physical pain of wounds and deaths, but also the mental pain that were consequences of war. One of these poets was Wilfred Owen. In his poetry we find the feelings of futility, horror, and dehumanization that he encountered in war.
The Lyrical Strain in Victorian Poetry
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2007-12) Huda, Md Nazmul
This article is an attempt to explore the lyrical strain in Victorian Poetry1. It has been demonstrated that lyrical strain is the combination of subjectivity and melody. Some particular lyric poems of Victorian period have been studied with the help of the views and comments of some critics so that better comprehension of the lyrics as well as the poets may be carried out. Lyrical allusions and references have been drawn from the poems of Tennyson, Arnold and Rossetti to present how the sources of their lyricism vary from one another. In presenting the lyrical features of their poems, the critical method followed is based upon comparison and contrast. Since literature is deemed to be the reflection of life, this study may help the readers understand sentiments and emotions of men and women of that particular period.
Addiction: Law and Practice in Bangladesh
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2007-12) Uddin, Md Jalal
In Bangladesh addiction has come as a dreadful curse on social life. Being addicted to intoxicant, men are extremely demoted. As a result frustration, indiscipline & mournful ripeness/end fall in personal life as well as its horrendous impact fall in social life and national life. Consequently the youths, the future of the nation, are running to the depth of darkness. This article explores the origin and causes of addiction and its bad impact on social life. This paper also highlights the national laws and Islamic laws about addiction and tries to show the present practice in Bangladesh. This article ends suggesting the Government how to overcome this problem.
Challenges of Islamic Da'wah in Bangladesh: The Christian Missions and Their Evangelization
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2007-12) Ali, Md Yousuf; Nurullah, Abu Sadat
Although Bangladesh is the second largest Muslim populated country in the world, there are several challenges of Islamic da‘wah here. The Christian mission, taking the opportunity of people's poverty and distress, is evangelizing them through financial assistance and other means. The rapidly increasing number of conversion to Christianity among the tribal population is alarming. The missionary activities are spreading around the country, chiefly in the intellectual arena, in educational institutions, and in other aspects of life. The influence of it on the culture, education, religion and lifestyle of people results into converting people to the Christian ideology. Particularly the young generations are inclining towards this lucrative dogma of the new age. Media, both print and electronic, are propagating and claiming the banning of the da‘wah movement. In these situation, the Islamic da‘wah movements require to explore and implement new methodology to face the enormous challenges to prevent Bangladesh from becoming a Christian country in future.

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