Rosie The Riveter Thesis

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Rosie the Riveter Research Essay

Throughout history we’ve had many people who have influenced, Americans by

changing its look such as inventing tools, being an advocate for something, or being a peace

leader, from a group or religion. Many American from now and back then have shaped the

history and helped change the way it looks now compared to then. One person who is a famous

woman, who was used as advertisement for women's job equality, was Rosie the Riveter. “Rosie

the Riveter is the female icon of World War II….She represents any women defense worker. And for many women, she’s an example of a strong, competent foremother” (“Rosie the Riveter: real

Women Workers in World War II”). Rosie the Riveter is a name given …show more content…

Rosie the Riveters’ were a

big part for ladies during the time when men were out fighting in World War II and ladies were

working at home and trying to help the men on making them weapons, clothes and other

necessary needs and materials while during the war.

There were many people who were called and got the name Rosie the Riveter, but the

person who is in the picture that is very well known is a woman named Geraldine Hoff Doyle.

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“Geraldine Hoff Doyle …worked at an Ann Arbor, Michigan plant that manufactured metal”

(“Rosie the Riveter”). She worked as one of the riveter, but one day a man came in to take a

picture and she was the one whose picture got transformed into something very significant.

Geraldine Doyle was known for that much except for being known for the famous picture that

was taken of her and being another Rosie the Riveter. “After she married a dentist, Geraldine

Doyle became Geraldine Keefe. Born in 1924, she lived in lansing, Michigan with her family.

She was 86 when she passed away. Hse had five children and many grandchildren” (“Rosie the

Riveter”)

The name Rosie the Riveter, was given to ladies during World War II who worked …show more content…

“In movies, newspapers, posters,

photographs and articles, the Rosie the Riveter campaign stressed the patriotic need for women

to enter the workforce” (“History Rosie the Riveter”). Usually though if they were named or

called Rosie the Riveter it is also because their name was called Rosie, “the composite of Rosie

was based on a group of women, most were named Rose, who varied in class, ethnicity,

geography, and background” (“American national Biography Online”) How ever not every lady

who was called Rosie the Riveter had the name Rose because the lady whose picture became

popular worldwide was named Geraldine . But every year the war went on, there were more


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names that added into the Rosie the Riveter list because so many women decided to work and

become more patriotic during that time because it was very popular.

For any women it was a goal, to known and called the name Rosie the Riveter because it

had such pride, strength and honorability anytime some said it, and so many women wanted to be

a patriotic idol that was known during the time of war and sadness. “The riveter used a gun

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