What sentence should be added to paragraph 2 to best develop the author's thesis? Rosie the Riveter
With her iconic blue shirt, flexed arm muscle, red bandanna, and "We Can Do it slogan often emblazoned above her head, Rosie
the Riveter has been a symbol of women's rights for decades. Originally created during World War II, the fictional character of Rosie
the Riveter was based on several real-life women who worked in industrial jobs around country. The idea behind creating Rosie the
Riveter was to encourage women to work in factory jobs while men fought in World War II After World War II, the image of Rosie has
gone on to mean much more.
The ad campaign with Rosie the Riveter was commissioned by the War Manpower Commission and the Office of War Information
as part a nationwide campaign to recruit women into the labor force. The campaign included images that featured Rosie through the
popular media of the time movies, newspapers, posters, photographs and articles. The image reached its full icon status when the
popular artist Norman Rockwell depicted Rosie the Riveter for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post The image portrays a muscular
woman wearing overalls, goggles, pins of honor on her lapel, and rolled-up sleeves.
F To many, the magazine cover showed a hopeful American spirit and fostered the belief that women could do male-dominated jobs
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Norman Rockwell's artistic skill is what was necessary to bring the figure of Rosie the Riveter to life for many people.
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Though the picture of Rosie the Riveter was different than what was in the movies, people were still drawn to it for various other reasons
At the time, The Saturday Evening Post was a popular weekly newspaper that covered important and sometimes controversial issues of the day