Amelia Earhart

or rich before this time, have been improving in their daily lives, but some still suffered. Women have been breaking through to the surface in the past few years, we have gained rights and opportunities. A women who proved everyone wrong was Amelia Earhart, he was…

Amelia Earhart went against society; changing the culture, views, and values of the 1920s. She was a woman pilot; by doing what she loved she became famous and known for making an impact on many men and women of the United States of America. Amelia Earhart was the first women pilot although her first flight she was merely a passenger many people thought she was very inspirational. As she slowly gained popularity she wrote a book "helping the world recognize that Amelia was more than a…

Flight has always been the dream of men. Since the time of Chinese military kites, mankind has utilized the air as a method of war, exploration, travel, and thrill. Pushed to the side were women. Before 1908, no woman had ever soloed in an airplane. In September of 1908, Thérèse Peltier, a French woman, set that record with a 200 metre flight in a Voison boxwite at Turin, Italy. Two years later, two women in the United States would follow Peltier into the sky: Blaunche Stuart Scott and Bessie…

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…

INTRODUCTION Why is Sally Ride one of the most courageous people to ever live? Sally Ride was courageous because she was able to show Perseverance, Excellence, and Respect in and out of her job . Although Sally Ride wasn’t the first American in space, she showed excellence and still achieved her dreams and was the first woman and youngest woman to ever go to space. Perseverance First, Sally Ride was a courageous person because she showed a lot of perseverance.Sally Ride showed a lot of…

Acting Minds Hillary Clinton, Amelia Earhart, Sojourner Truth and Rosa Parks. This is just a short list of many great female figures in history. While each of them might have different beliefs and goals, each one of them have something in common. They all made the decision to act with their mind despite what the social norm may be. Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” speech expresses that woman have as much potential as men to do anything they put their mind too (574-576). Today that sort of tenacity…

As numerous memories as I have of reading, I have no memory of learning how to read, so I assume I was too young for it to create a lasting impression. However, I vividly remember visiting my grandmother in Washington state when I was between the ages of five and six. We would sit before immense windows that overlooked the house’s yard and read short stories together. Thinking of these times inspires fond memories of reading stories such as Frog and Toad. I think this has an underlying effect I…

I remember I was about the age of 5. At this time my mother and I were living together alone in a two story apartment sitting right on the hills of Troy. During this age, I was attending daycare everyday daily because my mother would work full time during the week. I can still remember her waking me up everyday at the crack of dawn at 5 am and dropping me off to Samaritan, the daycare I was attending daily. At the time when I was younger, I enjoyed the benefits of waking up early there were a…

I chose this theme because while Nick was growing up, he constantly questioned whether there was a purpose to his life, and he wondered why he was not “normal,” like everyone else. From the ages of eight until twelve he thought about killing himself because he felt like he was such an outcast from all of his peers, and he also felt like a burden to his parents because they practically had to do everything for him. He even attempted to commit suicide by drowning himself in the bathtub. However…

Susan B. Anthony was born in the bleak winter of 1820. She was brought up in her family as a Quaker, who believed in equality for men and women. She was able to develop a feminist sense of morals and justice through the Religious Society of Friends. Because Anthony’s father was a sixth generation Quaker, she had the privilege of education. She attended a private boarding school in Philadelphia. Anthony’s family was greatly involved in the Society. Some of the people that influenced her most…