How Is Amelia Earhart Brave

Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart with that name brings to mind a short haired woman wearing a leather jacket, and climbing into a airplane. We all know that she flew planes into the record books as a woman and as an aviator. Until she supposedly died somewhere close to Howland Island in the Pacific (Lorenzi 3). Was she a brave, skilled woman, or is she another fame seeking woman looking to be noticed? There are many reasons to believe that Amelia Earhart was a brave woman, who was a major pioneer for women. First of all, Amelia Earhart was a major pathfinder for women in a male oriented field. She was always interested in women succeeding, in fact she would keep an scrapbook of news clippings and articles about successful women in normally male fields, such as film direction, film production, law, advertising, management and mechanical engineering(Lorenzi 1). Although this is probably wasn’t the whole reason she became an aviator, she more than likely enjoyed that she was breaking flying records that were previously thought to be only achievable by men. She showed that no matter the gender you should be able to do whatever you want. For example, according to Rossella Lorenzi “Earhart felt that flight proved that men …show more content…
Amelia Earhart was always thought of as a skilled woman that broke records as a pilot and as a woman. She used a old, second hand airplane to set a women's record at 14000 feet, that is almost 2.7 miles above earth. That would mean if you were to free fall from that height it would take over a minute to make it to back to earth(HOW LONG...). That kind of willpower she would have had to have to keep going after 5,000 feet above ground is amazing. It wasn’t only that though, she was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic, then she insisted that it was merely a personal gesture(Press 1). Something like that to could be done to get attention but to do it because she just wanted, is a symbol of