Write a 7-10-page paper (not including your Works Cited page) and use no fewer than and no more than 14 sources in which you first explore the complexities of agents of change as well as of individual and communal effects of the agents of change (general statement NOT statements about a particular agent of change). Then, using examples of historical or fictional global positive and/or negative agents of change, examine the ways in which they made an impact on their community and on the world. In this paper, you are to make a claim about a question concerning the agents of change of your choice. To prove your claim, you have to show your reasoning with the help of evidence.

As you conduct research about the agents of change, try to guess what elements would result in class discussions. Your reactions to specific agents of change are influenced by your background and values, some of which your peers may not share. Some of the actions which the agents of change took may leave you with conflicting ideas or mixed feelings. At moments like these, you may come to realize what major questions you have concerning your agents of change or change in general. How do you know that you have a good question? A good question does not have an obvious, immediate answer. The value of considering agents of change critically can lead you to reexamine your ways of perceiving the world. Your paper should go beyond the obvious and analyze more challenging matters.

You may choose to address questions related to the effects of the change at the time it was enacted as well as its aftereffects. Consider all the stakeholders and ways in which your agents of change encouraged their communities to rethink the societal structure, science, literature, the human being, etc.

For a 7-10-page essay, you should have no fewer than 7 and no more than 20 sources.

Write this essay in the third person since its topic is agents of change. You may use the first person (“I” or “we”) once in your introduction, if necessary, and once in conclusion, but you should not use the second person (“you”) at any point.

Steps to develop your paper:

• First, identify your agents of change
• Formulate your research question (you may do so after you conduct some research)
• Identify the primary sources (written by those agents of change, if any) and the secondary sources (written by others) you will use
• Develop your thesis statement
• Consider the milieu (the immediate community and/or society as a whole)
• Emphasize only relevant elements of the specific situations in which the agents lived and the actions they took
• When possible, draw on similar examples in the life of other agents of change

Your essay will be graded according to the strength of the arguments (make sure you have a clear thesis statement!), the level of engagement with the texts, the structure of the essay, and the quality of the writing.

Finally, you are to use Times New Roman 12 Font, double space, and MLA.