Social Justice essay Essays | Online Homework Help

Your essay assignment for this unit is to pick three selections or authors from the post-war period and write an essay of 600 or more words 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 Address
Robert 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”