Amelia Earhart's Winged Legend

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The inspirational biography Winged Legend: Story of Amelia Earhart tells Amelia Earhart's daring life story. Amelia was a fearless aviation pioneer who set countless height, speed and distance records. She lived at a time when women had limited careers and their talents were greatly underestimated. Women were under a 'label of inferiority' which greatly affected their lives and caused them to feel inferior to men. However, Amelia influentially broke down these barriers and determinedly proved to the world that women were as capable as men in nearly anything they set their mind to. She additionally helped break women's stereotypical career moulds in the early 1900s.

Although Amelia constantly dropped in and out of schools and jobs and her father

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