...Amelia Earhart was born on July 24,1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She was famous for being the first woman pilot. She disappeared over the Pacific Ocean and was never found. Amelia Mary Earhart was born on 7/24/97 in Atchison, Kansas in the house of her grandparents. Her parent's names were Amelia “Amy” Otis and Edwin Earhart. Amelia attended six high schools because she had to move frequently. She finally moved to Chicago. When Amelia was full grown, she volunteered as a Nurse’s Aide. Then, in 1919, she enrolled in medical studies at Columbia University, then quit a year later to be with her parents in California. In 1935, she decided to fly around the world around the equator. She didn’t fly alone, with her was a navigator...
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...the image of the face of women forever. Soon to be an American aviator, Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. She was the daughter of a successful railroad attorney. Because of her father’s occupation, Amelia spent her childhood growing up in many different towns. Her fascination for adventure and thrill seeking started off at a young age where Amelia and her big sister Muriel decided one day that they wanted to make a plane. There was a lack in material, so they decided to make a rollercoaster instead. Even though neither one of the girls knew how to make a roller coaster, they got some wood from an old wooden fence they tore down. First, they made the “car” by placing the bottoms of roller skates under a big piece of wood and the rest of the wood was used to make a slide that went from the top of a woodshed to the ground. With Amelia and her bravery, she went first and rolled quickly down the unstable slide. The “car” hit the ground and Amelia bounced into the air and turned into a somersault, luckily escaping injury. Years after the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa where they attended a state fair. That is when Amelia got to see her first airplane which did not impress Amelia. The airplane was made of wood and wires and reminded Amelia of a “big orange crate.” Because of this, she thought she would never own an airplane. Even though she was young at the time Amelia knew she wanted to do something fun in the future. One night in 1910 Amelia’s...
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...In 1937, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart during her circumnavigation attempt rattled the world. With Fred Noonan as her navigator and a reputation as an outstanding pilot, Earhart was expected to once again break records with this flight. Nearing the last stop before America, at a small landing strip on Howland Island, Noonan anticipated trouble (Haugen 90). After being unable to locate the Itasca, the U.S. Naval ship deployed outside Howland Island to help guide Noonan, Earhart radios in: “We must be on you but cannot see you but gas is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio” (qtd. in Pelt 196). When Earhart’s plane never reached Howland Island and was undiscovered in searches of the surrounding area, the mystery began about where Earhart really disappeared to. After being tortured by Japan and repatriated to America, the life of Earhart under the alias Irene Craigmile offers closure to this conundrum. To prove that Amelia Earhart survived her flight and did not perish as many were led to believe, the Mili Atoll theory is placed in the center of...
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...Amelia Earhart was a stunt pilot who is known for her amazing feats and long distance travels. She is also known for disappearing on her trip around the world. She crashed in the Pacific Ocean 1937. To this day no one knows what happened to Amelia Earhart and no one has found any wreckage of her plane. Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897. She had one sister, her name was Grace Earhart. Her parents’ names were Edwin and Amelia Earhart. She lived mostly with her grandparents until 1908 when she moved to live with her dad in Des Moines. She saw her first airplane in Des Moines, but she didn’t care for it much, it was only six years after the Wright brothers made the first flight. She lived in Iowa until she moved to Chicago...
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...Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, attempted to fly a Lockheed Model 10 Electra 2,556 nautical miles from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island on July 2, 1937. However, the two did not arrive as planned. It is known that “Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae in the heavily loaded Electra,” (Source: Amelia Earhart's Circumnavigation Attempt). Not to mention, those who witnessed the take off “reported that a radio antenna may have been damaged,” (Source: Amelia Earhart Biography). In addition, the radio equipment that could broadcast radio radio signals farther distances were left behind in order to allow more room for fuel onboard. This plays an immense role in the succeeding circumstances as Earhart had trouble communicating over the radio. Additionally, Earhart’s navigator, Noonan, had extreme difficulty with celestial navigation due to the extensive overcast conditions. It was, also, later discovered that the flyers were using maps that may have been inaccurate. This, too, plays a role in future events as Earhart and Noonan have difficulty locating their destination. To assist with their landing, “the United States Coast Guard cutter Itasca was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide them to the island once...
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...Amelia Earhart Amelia earhart was born in 1897 she marked dead in 1939. Her disappearance is one of the greatest to go unsolved in american history. I think she is dead because she would be 121 years old. I believe Earhart got blown off course and crash landed in sinan which was under japanese control at the time. Then imprisoned in the marshall islands, Then was killed. I think this because it was at the time of world war 2, and japan was in world war 2 with america. World war 2 was about the same time earhart went missing in 1937 and world war 2 started in 1939. Earhart was presumed dead in 1939 which I found ironic because that was the same year world war 2 started . In 1945 world war 2 ended and the us...
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...Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Kansas. She was a nurse’s aide in World War I, where “she developed a strong admiration for aviators, spending much of her free time watching the Royal Flying Corps practicing at the airfield nearby” (“Amelia Earhart"). In 1920, she went on a ten minute plane ride in Long Beach and decided she wanted to learn how to fly (“Amelia Earhart"). She wanted to be “the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic” (Grossman). Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, her flying partner, set out on June 1, 1937, to accomplish that goal. By June 29, approximately 22,000 miles of their trip had been completed when they stopped in New Guinea for repairs (“Amelia Earhart"). They were supposed to land on Howland Island to...
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...Amelia Earhart and American Aviator and Hero “I’m ready for take off…. everything's ok. Were going! Up, up and away! What do dreams know about boundaries?” My hero is Amelia Earhart she was an American aviator, During World War I, Amelia was a nurse's aide who tended to wounded soldiers, she also wrote a poem about courage. She was a good student, but didn’t have patience when she wasn’t on the path that she wanted. She set many flying records and helped with the advancement of women in aviation. She became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to ever fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. During a flight to circle the globe Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific in July 1937. Her plane wreckage...
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...Amelia Earhart once said “Flying may not be plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” Amelia was a courageous and fearless female aviator her time, who set many flying records. Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. Her father was Edwin Stanton Earhart, her mother was Amelia Amy Otis Earhart, and her younger sister was Grace Muriel Earhart. Their family would nickname Muriel and Amelia Muriel was Pidge and Amelia was Millie. Amelia lived in her house with her parents and sister until she was eight years old and her father later became an alcoholic so her parents split up so her mother went after him so Amelia and Muriel had to live with their grandparents temporarily until Amelia was twelve. While Amelia was with her grandparents she attended private school in Atchison. She graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1916 and started college at Ogontz School. At age ten she saw her first plane at the Iowa State fair but she wasn’t very impressed with it because she said “It was a thing of rust, wire, and wood and not at all interesting.”...
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...The Adventures of Amelia Earhart Could you imagine being the most well known female aviator to this day? That is what Amelia Earhart is known for. She never imagined that she would be capable of accomplishing the achievements that she would soon set her heart to. Earhart learned from a young age that she loved to fly; The seat of a plane was her second home. She was extremely adventurous, and well known for her courage. while she developed a love for flying, she completed a plethora of solo, and accompanied flights. Amelia Earhart had always been known for being adventurous. She loved going on adventures by herself and making new discoveries (Briand xi). She was smart, and could do work that most grown men were not able to do (Briand xv)....
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...Have you ever heard of Amelia Earhart? The earliest time I had ever become aware of her is in elementary school because I had read a biography of her life. Recently, my mother has shown me a video concerning a new conspiracy theory of how she disappeared. I became interested in Amelia because she had been a female pilot and not a great deal of women did that in her time considering that it was thought of to be a “man’s sport.” I admire her for reasons such as, she was one of the few women that honestly took the challenge of stepping out of their comfort zone to accomplish such a thing that most individuals only thought was for men, flying. Amelia Earhart influenced many people, not just by flying, but by how she was one of the women to do something only men did; she influenced women, children from broken homes, and pilots in the generations to come....
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...Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was the first woman to attempt to fly around the world.In the book, Amelia Earhart, written by Tanya lee Stone,Amelia was born in Kansas City on July 24,1897 at 11:30pm. She weighed in at 9 pounds. Amelia was a woman that was adventurous,intelligent,and determined.Unfortunately she disappeared on July 3,1937. Amelia was much like her father. She loved to play boy games like football or baseball.When Amelia graduated high school she went to school at Ogonts in Philadelphia to become a doctor. Her father started to drink too much and spent their money.This mad it harder to pay the bills and insurance. So the mother desisted to move away for good. Amelia was very patient throughout this whole process. When they...
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...John Cavins English 11 3-19-18 Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897. She defied gender roles from a young age. She played basketball and took an auto repair course in high school then briefly attended college. In WW1 she served as a Red Cross nurse’s aide in Toronto Canada. While in Toronto Amelia began to spend more time watching pilots in the Royal Flying Corps train at a local airfield. After her time in the war she returned to the U.S. and enrolled at Columbia University as a pre-med student. She didn’t take her first airplane ride until December of 1920 in California. She rode with famed WW1 pilot Frank Hawks and was forever in love. She started flying lessons in January 1921. Her instructor was a famous female named Neta Snook. To pay for her lessons she worked as a filling Clark at the Las Angeles Telephone Company. She purchased her first airplane later that year for $2000. She nicknamed her yellow plane “The Canary”. She finally passed her flight test in December 1921. In witch she earned the National Aeronautics Association license. About two days later, she participated in her first flight exhibition at the Sierra Airdrome in Pasadena,...
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...Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly, Amelia Earhart is the person that inspires me because she tried so hard to fly and achieve her goal. She was born in Atchison Kansas on July 24. She wanted to fly so much she asked her father to investigate the price for flying lessons, later to find out that local pilots charge $1,000 to teach a student to fly. The price did not stop Amelia she really wanted to fly and she did she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. (Shore pg. 37-38) Amelia was very determined, she was also very successful she wanted to fly and she did, she was not only the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean she was also the first to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. Mainland....
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...Amelia Earhart was one of the only people that was a female that flew across the atlantic in her time but she died in the process . Amelia Earhart had a change in females hearts and minds that Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. She didn't face anything hard in life at that point everything was going her way till she got on that plain and died. She was one of the most brave females in the world at the time to fly a plane and even men were shivering about how tough and strong willed she was. There are way more females joining jobs so they can be just like Amelia and show the inner strength that they always had . Help their families and make there dreams come...
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