Your essay assignment for this unit is to pick three selections or authors from the post-war period and write an essay explaining how these authors dealt with social issues or issues of social injustice in their writing. Helpful links for this essay:John F. Kennedy: Inaugural AddressRobert Lowell: “For the Union Dead”Richard Wright: “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”Bob Dylan: “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol”Denise Levertov: “Overheard Over S.E. Asia” and “Life at War”Muriel Rukeyser: “Poem” David Lance Goines: “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie”Janice Mirikitani: “Attack the Water” Elizabeth Bishop: “Sestina”Betty Friedan: “The Problem That Has No Name”Sylvia Plath: “Mirror”

