In English this week we looked at World War I and World War
II posters. These posters were made to persuade you to join a part of our
national defense from the navy to nurses, but also to make you buy war bonds
and ration on food. The poster that I chose to evaluate shows a woman standing
in a U.S Navy uniformed, next to her it says "Gee I wish I were a man I’d
join the navy, Be a man join the Navy." when I started contemplating this
poster and how back then men were socially more important and so when a man
would see this he would want to join the navy to keep his social integrity. Now
the reason for this post was to show our poster and then take this poster do a
few changes and make it anti-war. The changes that I would make would be this: I
would put a no attractive woman on the cover in a tattered outfit with blood
running down her cheek. I would than change the background color to black,
showing death or sadness. Lastly I would change to "Gee I wish this war
was over, so many lives lost, be a man don’t join the navy." With these
changes it would show how the war wasn’t really everything we thought it was.
