At least ONE text you discuss has to come from the Week #6 readings (Tagore, She, or Borges). In most of the readings in the middle three weeks of this course, we see characters or authors contemplating change. Some characters or authors are contemplating what change means and others are experiencing change with positive or negative results (or maybe a combination of both). In your exam, use at least three specific examples from assigned texts (Ramabai, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Tagore, She, or Borges) to show how we see characters facing or contemplating change or authors discussing it in their work (and your three examples cannot use the same author twice—for example, you cannot use both chapters by Ramabai or more than one story by Tagore and count them as two of the three examples). What kind of change do we see? What does the text seem to suggest about how we face change or about the human capacity to deal with change? How might these texts teach us more about how to face or deal with change today? Length and Content Requirements. Your essay response must be a minimum of 750 words (there is no maximum, but try to avoid writing a book). This exam should be entirely your own argument, and you are not allowed to use any secondary material in this exam (there should be no citing of course notes, an author’s biography, online materials, etc.—if I see any material like that, particularly without citations, you will lose points for not following the exam instructions). Your only source for the exam should be the assigned reading themselves. As long as you stick to using the assigned versions of the texts (email me for the assigned links), there is no need for citations. If I see any other versions of the texts (although I have no idea why you would use something other than what was provided), you will need to have citations to identify those versions, as there can be differences in translation, etc., that I will need to know about. As much as these are your own arguments, you should minimize your use of “I” unless absolutely necessary. Too many uses of “I think” or “in my opinion” just becomes redundant as these are your papers and therefore your ideas. Formatting the paper must be in conventional essay format (contain an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion). Any paraphrases or direct quotations of material from the texts you are using must be properly punctuated (clear use of quotation marks for direct quotations, for example). There is no need for a works cited page if you’re using the assigned texts that are linked or attached in the course, but if you’re using any other version of the assigned texts, you must provide a works cited page, noting full bibliographical information for your source material, with the submitted exam. The papers will go through a Turnitin.com review once uploaded—I’d like to work under the premise that students always do their own work, but I often average a 5-10% plagiarism rate in these online courses that tells me that is, unfortunately, not always the case.