So Many Teen Mothers in My Village”: Factors Contributing to Teenage Pregnancy in West Mamprusi District in Ghana

This paper focuses on the development of library webpages available on Engineering websites in the state of Maharashtra. In an information age/era, for any college library, its webpages integral part as central facility that the students and staffs need resources for curriculum and research works. Depending on survey and study of engineering websites throught out in Maharashtra it is tried to search information regarding various resources and library services provided. It searches all data informatics of available books, Printed journals, E-book, E-journals, Project reports, Doctoral research thesis, Reference books, Journals and periodicals, News papers, CD/DVDs , Videos , etc. Main purpose is to find out whether all details resources of library webpage are available on Engineering college websites or not.

Travel across Time and Space in William Blake’s ‘London’

William Blake’s iconic poem ‘London’ deals with his inner journey of life that travels across time and space. It has been attempted in this paper to bring out how ‘London’ is the flow of life itself both temporally and spatially.

The Use of Participatory Rural Appraisal Approach and Focus Group Discussion in Exploring Indigenous Knowledge for Development Research

Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Focus Group Discussion (FGD )are qualitative research techniques and important ways of understanding local perspectives (indigenous Knowledge) on different issues. The techniques involved the communities in the process of identifying problems and in devising ways for minimizing or solving the identified constraints on development. The techniques facilitate the use of IK of the community by relying on norms, values and belief system of communities to select data and other information relevant in guiding development process. It is argued that development solutions from outside are not always based on correct assumption and are sometimes economically unfeasible or culturally acceptable, conventional approaches to development have not achieve the desired result due to exclusion communities from the process of development initiative. It is suggested that PRA and FGD specifically and qualitative research generally, can be used to complement quantitative research or other methods in generating useful data and other relevant information for development initiatives

Effect of Branding On Consumer Buying Behaviour: A Study in Relation to Fashion Industry

Customers all over the world now prefer branded products. This study is aimed at analysing the effect of brand on consumer buying behaviour. Along with finding the effect of brand on consumer buying behaviour the purpose of the study is to have an in depth knowledge of what actually is branding and consumer behaviour. To study the relationship between brand and consumer behaviour the following methodology is opted: Consumer Survey on the effect of brands on their buying behaviour through questionnaire. The key results of the study are: The degree brand of consciousness goes on decreasing in higher age groups; price and brand were the major attributes that customer’s gave most importance and 80% people believe that Brands in fashion industry have become a status symbol.

The Significance Of Teaching Pragmatics To Engineering Students In Communications Skills Education in Andhra Pradesh

This paper discusses about the importance of teaching Pragmatics to students in Engineering Colleges in Andhra Pradesh where Telugu is the native language of the state. It throws light on the emergence of developing Pragmatics among the students and suggests to comprise it as a part of Communication Skills Education. This review emphasizes on the need of realizing the contrast between Academic English that is prescribed by the University and Communicative English which includes Pragmatic Competence that paves path to the students career even after completion of their Technical Graduation and also being a successful employee in future. It reveals the seriousness of Practice rather than tones of theoretical based work of the language. It brings awareness that speaking English is the ultimate task of the student than quietly accumulating knowledge of language.

The Significance of the Short Story in Indian English Literature

The beginnings of the Indian short story in English were made under the influence of the Britishers. English Short Story began towards the close of the nineteenth Century in India. It is the distinct from the fables of the ‘Hitopadesh’ and the tales of Panchatantra’. The short Story has become the major expression of literature in India which is used as a weapon to rise the voice of Indians against the Britishers culturally and Politically. The Fragmentation of experience as a result of the increasing complexity of social changes, seems to make the short story an apt vehicle for exploring the dark places of the human spirit and disembodied states of being. It is a voyage of discovery of self-discovery, of self – realisation for the character.

The Effectiveness of Peer Pressure on Students’ Career Decision Making in Secondary Schools in Kenya

The beginnings of the Indian short story in English were made under the influence of the Britishers. English Short Story began towards the close of the nineteenth Century in India. It is the distinct from the fables of the ‘Hitopadesh’ and the tales of Panchatantra’. The short Story has become the major expression of literature in India which is used as a weapon to rise the voice of Indians against the Britishers culturally and Politically. The Fragmentation of experience as a result of the increasing complexity of social changes, seems to make the short story an apt vehicle for exploring the dark places of the human spirit and disembodied states of being. It is a voyage of discovery of self-discovery, of self – realisation for the character.

Configural, Metric and Scalar Invariance Measurement of Academic Delay of Gratification Scale

The present study measured the partial (configural, metric and scalar) invariance of Academic Delay of Gratification Scale (ADOGS) for college students prepared by Hefer Bembenutty and Stuart Karabenick (1996), with respect to gender. 488 students (277 boys and 211 girls) from engineering, law, pharmacy, and education faculties of Sultan Ul Uloom Education Society, Hyderabad, were samples of the study. Confirmatory Factor Analysis framework was used to test the three invariance, one at a time, using SPSS AMOS Ver.23. This was done by constraining the factor structure, factor loadings and intercepts for the genders boys and girls simultaneously. The SPSS AMOS CFA test provided Chi-square value and degree of freedom for the unconstrained and the constrained structures. By comparing the difference in the Chi-square test p-value for a degree of freedom of the constrained factor structure with the unconstrained structure’s Chi-Square p-value and its degree of freedom using an excel sheet calculator of Chi-square test available on the Internet, the measurement invariance of the instrument was verified. The findings of the study reveal that the scale is configural and metric invariant, as there is no significant difference between constrained and unconstrained structures. However, the scale is not scalar invariant. The educational implications are discussed.

Theoretical Analysis of The Significance of Critical Discourse Analysis in Language Use

The current study aims at illustrating an important approach in the analysis of language use in various communicative events, situations and contexts. This approach is what recently known as critical discourse analysis. This kind of analysis is very important as far the linguistic levels that it utilizes are concerned in addition to the fact that critical discourse analysis can be applied on various situations, contexts and communicative events so as to analyse in detail both the structure and the message or meaning that a specific piece of language intends to convey. The study reveals that critical discourse analysis can be considered as an independent approach to the study of language and is mainly addressed to various social situations. Critical discourse analysis clarifies the occurrence of social relations, supremacy, individuality and other sorts of social bonds through spoken or written texts by analysing their constructions and structures linguistically and non linguistically.

‘Against the Order of Nature’: Queering Nature in Mahesh Dattani’s Bravely Fought the Queen

Section 377 of IPC deals with ‘unnatural offences’ – which mainly includes any voluntary carnal intercourse ‘against the order of nature’ with any man, woman or animal. The section, however, does not define ‘natural’ or ‘unnatural’. There has always been an ongoing relationship between sex and nature which is prevalent at various levels – social, institutional, political and ethical. At the same time there is also basic concept of ecofeminism that holds that there is a relationship between the oppression of women and the degeneration of nature. Taking into account the discourses on sexuality, queer theory and ecofeminism, I aim to examine Mahesh Dattani’s play Bravely Faught the Queen. The paper intends to build a connection between the queer theory and ecofeminism and through that connection looks at the play at two levels. The first level is that of performance. At this level, there is a constant effort to conform to the social construction of natural and normal. At the second level, we see the literal ‘construction’ of nature in the form of bonsai. The plots of indirect oppression and strapping of women and queers in the name of ‘normativity’ and ethics and the degeneration and binding of nature in the name of beautification in the form of bonsai. The paper questions the very notion of normal and natural, and therefore, it also questions the ‘ethical behaviour’ that is based mainly on the notion of natural.