Amelia Earhart - A Lost Voyage

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Amelia Earhart was born on July 24th, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Most of the time of her growing up was spent at her grandmother’s house. As Amelia’s mother (whose name was Amelia Otis, note the maiden name) married a man (Edwin Earhart) who had alcohol issues. This led a boatload of almost-divorces, and separation of the family. But during the time Amelia was able to do very well in school.

After Amelia had graduated she visited her sister in Toronto. This was during a time when many World War 1 veterans were coming home (which also meant a lot of lost limbs.) Amelia got to know the veterans well, many of which are pilots. She decided to volunteer as a nurse’s assistant for the Red Cross. Amelia even went to the extent of enrolling in medical studies at Colombia University, but she dropped out after a year to live with here family.

In 1920 Amelia went to an airshow that kick started her love for airplanes. So shortly afterwards she started seeking flying lessons (not cheap). But after a year of saving and lessons she bought her first airplane, a Kinner Airster biplane that she called the “Canary”. So on May 15th of 1923 Amelia Earhert became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot license.

However not all is uphill, Amelia’s family was running out of money. Most of what money they had was their grandparent’s inheritance, which as you can imagine they blew away in a matter of years. So Amelia’s parents got divorced once again and Amelia and her mother went to Boston for some odd reason, who knows why, but they did. Amelia tried going to Colombia University again but she simply ran out of money and had to drop out a second time.

In 1927 Amelia decided she loves flying again, although she had no money to actually go flying, she j...

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...l breakthroughs are close to confirming that the plane crashed near or even on Gardner Island, where the two eventually probably died. Many artifacts have been discovered but there is still debate and archaeologists are still searching the island at the time of this writing.

Works Cited

Amelia Earhart. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 10:00, Nov 18, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/amelia-earhart-9283280.
Biography of Amelia Earhart. (Unknown) Amelia Earhart Museum. Retrieved Nov 18 2013, from www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org/AmeliaEarhart/AEBiography.htm
Amelia Earhart Information. (2002). Department of the Navy. Retrieved Nov 18, 2013, from http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq3-1.htm
Amelia Earhart: Biography & Facts About Disappearance. (2013). Live Science Retrieved 9:59, Nov 18, 2013, from www.livescience.com/29363-amelia-earhart.html

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