World War 2 Text Analysis

World War II era was a very progressive time in which women overcame many obstacles in the workforce. With the men away at war, the women of America were encouraged to get out of their housewife mentality and perform their American duty. One field that targeted almost exclusively women was nursing. And with the country in the break of war, the demand for nurses soared. In 1943, women were officially commissioned into the army. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corp was commissioned and converted into the Women’s Army Corps, which included the Army Nurse Corp (Highlights in the History of Military Women). Because of this extensive change, the way that women were recruited to participate in the war effort changed too. Appendices A, B, C, D are from

The font in Appendices A and C include both elegant fonts in cursive and unadorned fonts in straightforward print. This is aesthetically pleasing, yet it still gets the overall message across. It also provides a focal point within the text because a person’s eyes naturally go towards what is perceived as beautiful, in this case the cursive font. Both Appendices B and D however have the same, simple, no nonsense font throughout the poster. This type of font can be dull and easily forgotten, but these posters use different color in different parts of their text to highlight the main points of the message that the army wants to send. All of the posters (Appendices A, B, C, and D) have the word “need” in them and have urgent “your country needs you” (Appendix A) undertones, which help further the argument for women to participate more in the war effort. These urgent messages highlight the importance of the Army Nurse Corp, giving army nurses

Therefore the women commissioned into the army in 1943, the women that wanted to make a difference and give their life to the war effort, finally got the equality and empowerment that they had been longing for. Nurses wanting to help the war effort were not only able to officially join the army, but they were finally able to be on the front lines of battle (Appendix C). This made all the women in the World War II workforce proud and patriotic, and as a result women were more willing to join the war effort in any way that they could. This spirit has carried on into the twenty first century. On December 3, 2015, the Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, announced that by 2016 all combat jobs in the United States military will be open to women (Rosenberg). This means that now, seventy-two years after women were commissioned into the Army in 1943, qualified women will finally be able to apply for any military job and will be able to reap the same military benefits that their male counterparts