Browsing by Author "Thapa, Ram Bahadur"
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Item Journey from Immaturity to Maturity in Nicholas Sparks's The Last Song(Department of English, 2015) Thapa, Ram BahadurThis research is a critical analysis of Nicholas Sparks's The Last Song, where the seventeen-year old Ronnie Miller, the protagonist, is trying to achieve maturation from ignorance. Applying Fritz Martini’s concepts on Bildungsroman genre that focuses on the coming of age and rites of passage of an adolescent or adult and is recognized for how it educates its readers about personal growth and self consciousness, this research explores the protagonist’s journey from immaturity to maturity, both physically and psychologically. This is the story of the adolescent Ronnie who feels alienated after her parents' divorce. Her mother decides that she and her brother Jonah spend the summer with her father. She goes to North Carolina from New York to spend summer. Ronnie lives in North Carolina with her father. At that time, she runs off to the carnival down at the beach, where she watches a volleyball game in the crowd. She encounters with different types of friends like Blaze, Marcus, Scott and Will. She falls in love with Will, who is the good looking beach volleyball player. She faces her father's death from cancer. Then she forgives herself with her father. She eventually succeeds in asserting the self as sign of maturity.Item A Study on Mathematics Classroom Management and Its Effect on Students Achievement at Secondary Level(Faculty of Education, 2011) Thapa, Ram BahadurThis study focuses on classroom management in secondary level of Kaski District of Nepal. In particular, this study attempts to examine the physical resources management and discipline management in mathematics classroom. This study tries to explain the existing situation of physical resources, problems created due to the facilities in the school, disciplinary problems in the students and impact of disciplinary problems in mathematics learning. This is a qualitative study related to the classroom behavior of students and situation of physical facilities in the schools. Observation form for the researcher, questionnaire for the teachers and students with unstructured interview schedule for the students were used to collect primary data from the eight community schools of Kaski District. The study is concerned to the physical resources, facilities, classroom condition and disciplinary problems in mathematics classroom It also tries to explore their effect in mathematics achievement. The study shows that the condition of classroom was not good in most of the schools. There was no use of sufficient teaching materials, clean drinking water etc. Due to the student's absence in their class, carelessness in preparing the next day lesson, making unnecessary noise, highly affects in their mathematics learning Those physical and disciplinary problems were found to be influential factors on learning and achievement of students. The analysis of data concluded that the achievement of students in mathematics is better in school with well physical and disciplined than not well physical and disciplined ones.