Body 1: Compare & evidence
Body 2: Contrast & evidence
Body 3: Effectiveness
Body 4: Conclusion

Body 2:

B1: Ernst/ DeAngelis and Ballinger

B2: Contrast

Conclusion: Effectiveness

B1:

Thesis: Both passages are effective by showing how the war transformed women's life, but Kathleen Ernst provides a better explanation of women’s roles in life, not just those actions relating to the war.

Body 1:  

P1: “Breaking Tradition” and “A Family Affair” show how roles of women changed during the war. 

E1: “Before the Civil War, laws and traditions restricted women’s choices.”

I1: Women had no rule over themselves during the 1840s and 50s, the were controlled by their husbands. They had no choices of career paths, “Women were expected to keep busy at home and church and to avoid heavy labor, business, and politics.”

E2: “They found themselves becoming a vital part of the war effort.”

I2: Women saw the need the effects of the war were causing.

Body 2: 

P1: “Breaking Tradition” provides an explanation of roles in women’s life, not just actions related to the war, while “A Family Affair” only explains roles in women’s life during the war.

E1: “Those women who wanted or needed to pursue “respectable” careers became schoolteachers, seamstress, or hat makers, or gave private lessons in art, music, or French.”

I1: Women’s lives not only changed during the war, they kept progressing when the war was concluded.

E2: “Many other women served as volunteers in organizations such as the American Red Cross.”

I2: In relation to war, many women volunteered to help wounded soldiers and provide them with necessary resources. 

Conclusion:

“Breaking Tradition” by Kathleen Ernst is more effective because she provides a better explanation of women’s roles in life, not just those actions relating to the war.

Essay

In the essay “ Breaking Tradition” Kathleen Ernest discusses the variety of roles women had in the 1800’s while in the essay “ A Family Affair” Gina DeAngelis and Lisa Ballinger focus on the roles women took during World War II.

Both essays discuss what life was like before war and how war changed women’s lives. In the essay “Breaking Tradition” Ernest says, “ Before the Civil war, laws and traditions restricted women’s choices,” “ Other women entered new occupations created by the Industrial Revolution, which replaced the work of the individual craftspeople with machine manufacturing. Then in “ A Family Affair” the authors state, “ So in 1943, the government circulated recruiting posters encouraging women to step outside their traditional roles as mothers and wives and join the war effect.” During this time women were needed to step up and do more than just their daily roles.

In the essay “ Breaking Tradition” women played more roles in the 1800’s than just supporting others in war and during war but the essay “ A Family Affair” specifically what women did during World War II.