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Rockwell’s ‘Rosie’, which appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in the 29th of May, 1943, was inspired by a real woman by the name of Mary Doyle. It shows a muscular feminine figure in front of an American flag, on her lunch break, sitting on a stump, riveter gun on her lap, factory goggles pushed up on her forehead and wearing dirty overalls. She looks confident, strong and comfortable in this environment, doing this job freely and willingly to support the US war effort. The illustration resembles a Michelangelo’s painting from

In the United States World War II has been one of the most remembered wars of all time. Acclaimed historian Ronald Takaki asserts that for many Americans, World War II was fought for a “double victory”: on the battlefront as well as on the home front. Takaki’s book Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II reminds the audience that there was much, much more happening at home and on the frontlines during World War II than in the battlefield. Takaki presents a strong central argument; it illuminates the incongruity of America's own oppressive behavior toward minorities at home, even while proclaiming the role in World War II as a fight against oppression abroad. It also pays tribute to the determination and perseverance of ethnically diverse Americans in their two-front war against prejudice and fascism. In addition Takaki tells the story through the lives of ethnically diverse Americans: Japanese Americans who felt betrayed by their own country when families were sent to internment camps; For African Americans, the war for freedom had to be fought in their country’s own backyard; a Navajo code talker who uses his complex native language to transmit secret battle messages and confound the Japanese, while his people are living in desperate poverty on a government reservation. Their dual struggle to defeat the enemy abroad and overcome racism at home gives the Double Victory its title and its texture.

Künstler, Mort, and James I. Robertson. World War II: 1939-1945. New York: Abbeville Kids, a division of Abbeville Press,

The visual analysis I chose is of Rosie the Riveter, the “We Can Do It!” poster. This poster went around during the World War II to encourage all women to fill the jobs located in a factory named Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. An artist by the name of J. Howard Miller first created this in 1942. His reason was to build confidence by others who misunderstood women’s rights. Representing women in early 1940’s wartime workforce produced Rosie’s character that served as a cultural icon during this time. Today it serves as a feminist icon by exalting women in various contexts in which experience inequality.

In the aftermath of World War II, every nation of the world emerged mentally and, in some cases, physically altered. The physical affects of the Second World War spanning from Pearl Harbor to the battleground that made up most of Western Europe to Nagasaki and Hiroshima are visual pictures engrained in the minds of all, past and present, but the American ideology that these destructive images helped to give rise to would directly shape American domestic and foreign policy for approximately the next 50 years and indirectly shape the current policies implemented in the United States today. The United States, a world super power, entered World War II in December, 1941. The apprehensive and notably late involvement of the U.S. provided

The role of identifying areas that narrate home front stories is challenging. Many factories, research laboratories, government office buildings, housing projects, United Service Organization canteens, military bases, schools, and day care centers were expanded or built during the Second World War. Theaters in many of communities in the nation had a role in the sponsorship of the War through driving and showing terrifying newsreels as well as uplifting entertaining movies. Bus and railroad stations in small towns and major cities could not contain the millions of people passing through to new defense jobs or military service. The alternative places represented negative wartime stories with segregated military bases and housing, war relocation environments for individuals with Japanese descent, prisons, and conscientious objectors were observed. Most of the sites were engaged in racial conflict and labor confrontation in Pearl Harbor.

To assure men that war would not make women too masculine, some factories gave female employees lessons in how to apply makeup, and cosmetics were never rationed during the war. Keeping American women looking their best was important to the average citizen in the 1940’s. However everything changed with a fictitious character that was a voice for every woman in the workforce. The strong yet feminine Rosie became one of the most successful recruitment poster in American history, and the most iconic image of working women. In movies, newspapers, posters, photographs and Saturday Evening Post cover, Rosie the Riveter showed the patriotic need for women to enter the workforce—and they did, in huge numbers.This drawing helped women feel more confident and strong enough to do whatever men can do. A cartoonist Paul S. Snyder also had a cartoon that emphasized and ridiculed women saying how one worker did not know it was a lady working. Cartoons like this made ladies feel weak and inferior, but the “rosie the Riveter” help empower women. This simple picture which was not expected to become such an important part of propaganda and women’s right inspired and motivated woman all over America to step up and believe they can do anything. This simple picture of a lady raising her arm is still an impact in the world today as it was in World War

World War II was a time of great urgency and sacrifice that called upon unity for not just soldiers, but also everyday citizens. America needed a way to get this message across quickly and effectively and so they did it in the forms of posters and speeches. The World War II propaganda that was created to unite and encourage patriotism across the United States played a pivotal and vital role in the United Nation’s victory.

The Asia-Pacific War mirrored several other wars insofar as it had an abnormal enormous impact on the world, thereby altering the daily lives of those residing in Japan and the United States. The Japanese American soldiers struggled to overcome and withstand the American’s racism and hostility that pervaded throughout the course of the war. A multitude of American military officials observed the Japanese American soldiers closely, since this small minority acted as the American’s enemy in the conflict. With the conclusion of the war, American political officials produced propaganda films in order to convince people of a specific political point or influence throughout the war. Go for Broke and Know Your Enemy—films concerning the subject of this military conflict—depict the way in which the American government endeavored to induce discrimination among its citizenry, directed towards this small minority class.

The historical, monochrome images that flash on the screen, coupled with Motss’ asyndetic list, “Naked girl, covered in napalm. Five marines raising the flag, Mount Suribachl. Churchill, V for Victory” suggests that the public’s understanding of events is often defined by single photographic representations, rather than factual evidence. Followed by Motss’ antithetical, parallel phrases suggest that the understanding individuals gleam from such representations is shallow and fleeting: “You remember the picture, fifty years from now, they'll have forgotten the war” where these images that transpire come to embody and represent the entirety of military events. The imperative “Put the village behind her” and “Gimme some flames”, followed by the blue screen being replaced by a smoking Albanian village, reveals the degree to which the representations upon which the public understand political events may be subject to doctoring and manipulation by the composers in the media. Moments later, Levinson includes film, styled as raw news footage, of a television journalist vouching for the authenticity of the clip to reveal that fabricated representations may appear virtually indistinguishable from the clips shown on mass media. Thus, Levinson reveals the extent to which the public’s understanding of political

He tackles the well-known notion World War Two was the best war to be fought by Americans through the creation of myths one sees in today’s society. He takes the reader through the role of media during World War Two and even after the war ended. Adams showed just how big of an impact the media had on the American people and their viewpoints of the war. During the war the media were heavily censored, they never really showed the hardship of the soldiers fighting; they showed what the Americans at home wanted to see. Many of the myths have been generated by the way media portrayed the war while the fighting happens. Pearl Harbor was used as a rally cry for the American people to join in the war and Soldiers were needed to revenge the

The final document that I will be analyzing is an article from a newspaper page from The Kansas City Times, published on Friday, October 4, 1918. After I take a glance at this document I see three quarters of the page covered by only two written articles and the rest of the page contains advertisements of upcoming theater plays and shows. The illustrations in the advertisements of the shows are not nearly as sensational as those with the football illustrations. The article that I will be analyzing is headlined, “War Makes Men Leaders.” The article begins to tell a story about American forces in France and the daily lives of each ranked soldier. Then the article talks about how different the lives of the American soldiers are in France compared to the lives lived in America. The article signifies the fact that they will not be experiencing “a great football or baseball match between two of our colleges at home (Jenkins, 1918).” This statement in an article talking about war is very significant as it shows the value that Americans hold for the sports games. The article shows that the soldiers will not be missing anything else except for a football or baseball game, signifying it as the most important experience in American society. This signifier is an advertisement strategy reminding the reader that Americans cherish their sports games more than anything. This is an example of selling the games through articles. This impacts both the newspaper and the games, increasing their

My book cover’s background is a blue sky and sea. The sky and sea almost link together and we can not describle the the horizon. There is a light house located on a island. The lonely lighthouse faces to the further place alone. Everything is peaceful before sun raising. This is the sence of the end of the novel, John killed himself in this lighthouse. At the back of the cover, there are some T signs which seems that nobody can escape from the Brave New World. At the end of the novel. John tries to find a place and gets far away from the sick society. However, he can not. The people from the sick world come and visit him like we visit a strange animal. They break the peaceful and make John feeling hopeless. Finally, John kills himself during

On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by Imperial Japan. Soon after the attack, hundreds of Japanese Americans were being arrested across the country. Within ten weeks President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the detention of the American Japanese. The author Richard Reeves, is a Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He was educated as a mechanical engineer, and he began his journalism career at the age of 23. He has fifteen publications, six films, and has received thirteen awards. The book has an image of Japanese children with the look of sorrow and a suitcase for the background of the book cover. In the center of the book there is a huge, vibrant red circle that contains the title in bold black letters which captures the viewer 's eyes. The title Infamy, meaning the state of being well known for some bad quality or deed makes one’s curiosity wonder why the author would title a book like this that has Japanese children on it. Richard Reeves proves to know how to inform people of American history considering all the awards, and ratings he has received for his works.

War world two would lead to the defeat of the Japanese army, and ever since the Japanese have challenged this notice of defeat through popular films and manga. My four films that will show the ways in which the memory of the war has been depicted are: “For Those We Love”, “The Eternal Zero”, “Grave of the Fireflies”, and last will be a manga called “The Hawk in the Shidenkai”. After the end of WWII, recollections have been altered: creating positive and heroic depictions of the war from a Japanese perspective. These narratives include themes that glorify both the soldiers in the war and the war itself, while also portraying the Japanese side as the victims. These narratives that have been created by both film and manga during the past 50 years has led to a false sense of collective memory, especially to that of the younger generation who had not experienced the war firsthand. If the younger audience continues to be exposed to this sense of false collective memories, then we will fail to learn from history and thus allows the possibility for history to repeat itself once more.