Amelia Earhart Research Paper

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Name
Emily Johnson

Date
4/17/18

Name of Influential Person
Amelia Mary Earhart

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” Amelia Mary Earhart was the inspiration to women all around the world, she defeated the disbelief and the people who didn’t believe she could do anything as well as any man. She took a risk and she let herself soar picking up the world with her.(Amelia Earhart, The Legend of the Lost Aviator by Shelley Tanaka and Illustrated by David Craig, 2008). She proved to the malicious world that a woman is just as capable and strong as any man. Aviation was something Amelia Earhart grew to love and she did. She was the first ever woman in aviation history that flew the Atlantic ocean solo and she inspires still to this day into women
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She flew everywhere her heart and airplane would lead her. This is the truth of who Amelia Mary Earhart was and what she accomplished in the clouds. Come along on the plane ride through the clouds and lets soar through her life, because “Their is more to life than being a passenger.”by Amelia Mary Earhart. (https://www.history.com/,)

Amelia was born on July 24th, 1897 and she was born brave. Amelia’s early life was very happy. She grew up with her father Edwin (lawyer who worked for railroad) and she spent a lot of her time with her younger sister Muriel, and her mother Amelia Otis Earhart She and her sister Muriel loved sports and adventures. They even played in the broken carriage in her grandparents barn acting like they were travelling to dangerous and far off
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Her family moved a lot, she went to a total of 6 high schools by the time she graduated. But not all was bad when she graduated she discovered that she had a taste for traveling to new places because she moved around so much and she loved meeting new people. Life was not easy after that either, her parents split up, got back together and then split up for good. After highschool Amelia went to a college near Philadelphia, Thiel University! There were many bright spots as well, in World War 1 there was much need for combat planes and the governments were developing more planes and their was a need for new pilots. She got the urge to fly but instead of pursuing that just yet when the war ended she went back to the United States and enrolled into medical school and did the peculiar things people had to do to become a doctor. One Christmas in 1917 she came home and saw four veterans from the nearly ended World War 1 walking down the street struggling. That inspired her to give back so she moved to Toronto and worked as a nurses aid. (“Amelia Earhart The Legend of the Lost Aviator” By Shelley Tanaka Illustrated by David Craig, 2008) She made beds, she comforted the wounded and she scrubbed floors and that inspired her spark for helping people to come alive. After taking a course in automobile’s, her parents

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