Hilary Putnam

Have you ever wondered what happened to the first woman that flew across the atlantic sea alone? Amelia Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, the daughter of a lawyer Edwin Earhart. Amelia was a great rider, swimmer, tennis player, and shooter .She did her target practice with a .22 caliber rifle. She learned to read when she was four years old and since then, read many books, but was especially intrigued by adventure novels. As a result, despite her belonging to the “weaker sex”…

the movie Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese took place in Woodrow Wilson high school in Los Angeles, California in 1992. The film was about a highly inspiring teacher Mrs. Erin Gruwell who is fresh out of college, played by actress Hilary Swank. The story line is about integration, high school students that are not interested in learning, in light of the lifestyles they live. The setting of the movie was based in a low poverty area that involved gang life, black and Latino people…

amazing movie makes viewers think about the film long after watching it and has an impact on the their life. Million Dollar Baby is a spectacular example of all these factors. Million Dollar Baby is a drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and it stars Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald, a poor boxer who is determined to become the very best that she can be. Million Dollar Baby is a perfect example of a drama film because it has a complex and engaging conflict, the characters are believable and…

Amelia Earhart is a well-known pilot mainly known for being the first woman to copilot and solo fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart flew all over the world trying to accomplish things that women and some men haven’t been able to do. Around the mid 1930 Amelia tried to do the impossible and disappeared while trying to accomplish it. (“Lorenzi”) Humans are fascinated by things they cannot explain because we can’t stand there is no end. Although she lived and exciting adventurous life, the end…

How was life as a female pilot in the 1920's-1930's? Amelia Earhart was a female pilot amid the 1930's. Taking a course in Red Cross Medical aid, Amelia enrolling as an attendant's associate at Spadina Military Healing center in Toronto, Canada, tending to injured warriors amid World War I. The next year, Amelia selected as a premedical understudy at Columbia College in New York. Presently, Amelia's folks demanded she move to California where they were living. Amelia Earhart was the most…

“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” Amelia Earhart was a legendary American aviator who conquered the skies and set many records from 1922 to 1937, including being the first individual to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. In 1937 while attempting to successfully circumnavigate the globe, Earhart vanished and never reappeared. The United States enacted a massive hunt for her costing millions of dollars and spanning various continents to no avail. Eighty…

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…

Erin Gruwell was able to break barriers in her classroom for her students in room 203. First, Ms. Gruwell had the students play a game of similarities where they stepped up to a piece of tape in the middle of the classroom when she gave statement of life experiences. Many of the students in Ms. Gruwell’s classroom experience loss of a family member, friend, etc., exposed to violence at a young age, was involved in criminal activates, and other life experiences of loss and grief. Ms. Gruwell…

The movie, The Freedom Writers, follows a teacher who unifies her classroom through literature. The class is made up of many teenagers of different races, most are even in a gang affiliated with their race. During this time period, in Long Beach, California there is a great deal of racial tension, including a gang war. It is a very dangerous place to be for everyone. In the beginning of the film, the students at Wilson High are very segregated in the classroom, sticking strictly to their racial…

Many people have heard the name Amelia Earhart but, they do not know of all her amazing accomplishments. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean along with many other records and accomplishments..…….. Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, KS. She was born to Amelia Otis Earhart and Samuel Stanton Earhart. She had a younger sister Grace Muriel Earhart. As a child Amelia was a big tomboy and was interested in women being able to do the same as men. She…