Amelia Earheart Research Paper

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Amerlia Mary Earheart is best known for being the first female aviator to fly solo across the Alantic Ocean. Amelia was born on July 24, 1897 in a small town in Atchison, kansas. Even as a child she still had a thirst for adventures and a growing love for the outdoors. With much stength, amelia got through her troubling childhood and faced all her challenges with perserverance and with that she beamane one of the most impostsnt female aviators in history. Although amelia had orginally studied medicine at ------ but everything changed when she realized that she wanted to become a pilot. On december 28, 1920 earheart and her fathger visited an airfeild were she was given a ride that changed amelias persepctive on her life. After a 10 minute flight amelia was convinced that flying was what she was desined to persue, she was quoted saying “By the time I got two or threee hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.” she worked multiple jobs so that she could save up the money to pay fro flight lessions. Amelias hard work and determination along with her natrual talent for flying was maybe the reason for her future succeses. Amelia came into the public eye after the june 1928 flight from newfoundland ro burry port wales. She was not content with the fcat that although she was progessing in her career as a female pilot she felt as if her role in …show more content…
The frist attempt did not go as planned and the plane crashed in hawaii. Later on a seconmd mission now attempting to cross from a west-to-east direection, amelia and her flight naviagtor dissapereaed in the area of New Guinea to a small isnalnd in the mid-Pacific called Howland Island. Amelia Earhearts body was nebvr found. Alough her death was tragic, her story lives on today ispriging people because of her endless determination during a sexist time and fro over coming every callenge and becoming the first women to cross the

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