Haley Cartner
04/05/2017
Amelia Earhart
Brief description of their life:
Amelia was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24,1897. She spent most of her time at her grandparents, who were middle class. Amelia’s mother Amy Otis married a promising man, that a problem with alcohol. Her father Edwin Earhart was always searching for ways to establish his career and he made sure that his family was taken care of financially. When her father’s drinking got bad, Amelia’s mother would shuttle her and her sister Muriel to their grandparent’s house. Muriel and Amelia were always seeking out adventures, such as climbing trees and taking rides on Amelia’s sled. When she was ten years old her family was reunited but, her father was having a hard …show more content…
When they were there Amelia went to Hyde Park High School, this is where she found a love for chemistry. The lack of Amelia’s father being able to provide for his family, led her to realize that she did not need anyone to take care of her. The Christmas after her graduation, Amelia went to on vacation to Canada to visit her sister. She witnessed wounded soldiers coming back from World War I and she wanted to help, so she became a nurse’s aide. Many of the wounded soldiers that she took care of were pilots. She would watch the royal flying corps many of times at the airfield. Earhart had enrolled in medical studies at Columbia University in 1919. One year after that she quit college to be with her parents in California. She was known as “Lady Link” and in 1923 she became the sixteenth women to receive her pilot’s license. In 1928 she was the first women to officially have flown over the Atlantic Ocean. She was trying to circumnavigate the globe from the equator and while doing so she disappeared in 1937. Earhart was friends with Dorothy Putnam and there was a rumor going around that there was an affair going on between Earhart and Dorothy’s …show more content…
She read a lot on flying and spent most of her time at the airfield. She cut her hair short, just like other women aviators. For the first three nights she slept in her leather jacket, to give it a worn look so that she would look like the more experienced pilots. In 1921, Earhart purchased her first biplane and painted in yellow, she called it “The Canary”. She flew that little yellow plane to 14,000 feet on October 22, 1922. That was the world altitude record for female pilots. The Earhart family lived off of an inheritance from Amy’s mothers estate. In 1924 the money ran out and the Earharts were broke so Amelia sold her little yellow plane. Following her parents second divorce, Amelia and her mother set out on a trip starting in California and lastly Boston, where they settled. In 1925, she enrolled and gave Columbia University another shot but, she was forced to have to quit due to her finances. She worked a couple of jobs as a teacher and a social worker. She was amazing, having to first learn how to fly and then having to sale the one thing that she loved the most due to her financial situation. Also she had to quit college twice. She had to over come many different obstacles and doing so made her
04/05/2017
Amelia Earhart
Brief description of their life:
Amelia was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24,1897. She spent most of her time at her grandparents, who were middle class. Amelia’s mother Amy Otis married a promising man, that a problem with alcohol. Her father Edwin Earhart was always searching for ways to establish his career and he made sure that his family was taken care of financially. When her father’s drinking got bad, Amelia’s mother would shuttle her and her sister Muriel to their grandparent’s house. Muriel and Amelia were always seeking out adventures, such as climbing trees and taking rides on Amelia’s sled. When she was ten years old her family was reunited but, her father was having a hard …show more content…
When they were there Amelia went to Hyde Park High School, this is where she found a love for chemistry. The lack of Amelia’s father being able to provide for his family, led her to realize that she did not need anyone to take care of her. The Christmas after her graduation, Amelia went to on vacation to Canada to visit her sister. She witnessed wounded soldiers coming back from World War I and she wanted to help, so she became a nurse’s aide. Many of the wounded soldiers that she took care of were pilots. She would watch the royal flying corps many of times at the airfield. Earhart had enrolled in medical studies at Columbia University in 1919. One year after that she quit college to be with her parents in California. She was known as “Lady Link” and in 1923 she became the sixteenth women to receive her pilot’s license. In 1928 she was the first women to officially have flown over the Atlantic Ocean. She was trying to circumnavigate the globe from the equator and while doing so she disappeared in 1937. Earhart was friends with Dorothy Putnam and there was a rumor going around that there was an affair going on between Earhart and Dorothy’s …show more content…
She read a lot on flying and spent most of her time at the airfield. She cut her hair short, just like other women aviators. For the first three nights she slept in her leather jacket, to give it a worn look so that she would look like the more experienced pilots. In 1921, Earhart purchased her first biplane and painted in yellow, she called it “The Canary”. She flew that little yellow plane to 14,000 feet on October 22, 1922. That was the world altitude record for female pilots. The Earhart family lived off of an inheritance from Amy’s mothers estate. In 1924 the money ran out and the Earharts were broke so Amelia sold her little yellow plane. Following her parents second divorce, Amelia and her mother set out on a trip starting in California and lastly Boston, where they settled. In 1925, she enrolled and gave Columbia University another shot but, she was forced to have to quit due to her finances. She worked a couple of jobs as a teacher and a social worker. She was amazing, having to first learn how to fly and then having to sale the one thing that she loved the most due to her financial situation. Also she had to quit college twice. She had to over come many different obstacles and doing so made her