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    Brain Buster (Quiz Game)
    (Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus., 2020-11-20) Sohaib Ahmad; FA16-BCS-101; Mamoona Tasadduq; LHR TP 6126
    Nowadays, e-learning and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are gaining a lot of attention. The students prefer to take online courses due to less cost, flexible learning schedule and instant view of lectures. It has been observed that many students drop out in the middle of the course. In literature, out of many reasons, lack of motivation is found to be a key factor that makes them leave the course. It is very important to keep students engaged so that they continue their learning process. A small prompt sometimes can re engage the user. By keeping in view, we have proposed an e-learning project combining all the useful, interesting, and motivating features of online learning through gaming process. It is an application of personalized based learning with gamification [1] strategies. Students take the quiz comprising of multiple stages and three levels (easy, medium, hard) within each stage. The difficulty level increase as student progress through different stages and they are rewarded with badges. All track records are saved thus motivating the student to complete more tasks. A discussion forum will be used for the discussion among students. They can also view their competitors and their standing among others using leader-board. Including some other gamified features, this quiz game will help students to improve their knowledge and get excellence in their domain. This project has the capability to master students on multiple subjects.
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    Representation of Child Abuse in African American Fiction: A Study of Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
    (Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2018) Sohaib Ahmad; SP17-REL-006; Dr. Jalil Akhtar; LHR TP 5314
    The present research has undertaken an analysis and investigation of the depiction of childhood abuse and the ensuing trauma in God Help the Child by Toni Morrison and The Color Purple by Alice Walker by drawing focus to the characters’ horrible past, distress and anguish and their repercussions on their present. It has focused on the analysis of various forms of childhood violence and abuse such as incest, rape, pedophilia, child molestation and other physical, emotional and psychological forms of torture which many characters in the texts go through in their lives. The current study has highlighted the child abuse in the African American society and also shown how the menace of abuse is affecting the children in our setting too. The study has brought to light an important issue of child abuse and how this curse should be averted in order to nourish our children in a healthy way. Qualitative research design has been employed and the texts are analyzed using the content analysis technique. Ideas of child abuse and trauma theorists like Alice Miller, Judith Herman and James Kincaid are used to interpret the texts under investigation. The notions such as the narcissistic disorder and false self by Alice Miller and post-traumatic stress disorder, intrusion and constriction by Judith Herman are some of the concepts which the texts are seen through