Born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, Amelia Earhart was a world famous female aviator. She is known for becoming the first woman to fly by herself across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly alone from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. Amelia spent most of her childhood with her grandparents since her parents, Amelia "Amy" Otis and Edwin Earhart lent her to them during the cold months. She came from a wealthy family and her career started off as her working as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in the military hospital during World War I. Amelia first became interested in airplanes when “her father took her to an airshow in Long Beach, and afterward she told him that she wanted to go up in a plane” (Netzley, 16). She began taking lessons and that's when she realized that she wanted to begin her journey with airplanes. Amelia was the first woman to earn her international …show more content…
Government, the most likely incorrect theory for Earhart’s disappearance would be that she crashed and sank. According to New York Times, “there’s not one shred of evidence that she crashed into the ocean” (NY Times, Fortin). They searched the oceans around Howland Island but they found nothing not even pieces of her airplane. All the money spent to find the world’s best female aviator was for nothing. The theory given by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery is most likely accurate. They studied and discovered more about her disappearance throughout the years. For example, they included artifact recoveries, repeatedly going back to Nikumaroro Island in search for some new evidence, and even analyzing the radio contact she tried to make. The crash and sank theory is incorrect as there was no evidence whatsoever to support that theory and the theory by TIGHAR provides more detailed and factual evidence, therefore making it
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot describes the case of John Moore, a man with Leukemia, who had his spleen removed. The doctor who did this surgery not only stole his cells but also sold them and made money off of them. The doctor did not inform John of his intentions. John’s cells now have a value of 3 billion dollars due to how valuable they are. When John found out about his doctor’s intentions he took to the doctor to court. The court informed John that everything the doctor did was under informed consent so it was found legal. The judge “rejected his suit because Moore did not have property interest in the cell line developed by his doctor and that his rights to privacy and dignity were sufficiently protected by doctrine of informed consent”(Devine) Today, due to that court case, patients who have any surgeries must sign a paper giving
Ella was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25, 1917. When alled “The First Lady of Song” by some fans. She was known for having beautiful tone, extended range, and great intonation, and famous for her improvisational scat singing. Ella sang during the her most famous song was “A-tiscket A-tasket”. Fitzgerald sang in the period of swing, ballads, and bebop; she made some great albums with other great jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. She influenced countless American popular singers of the post-swing period and also international performers such as the singer Miriam Makeba. She didn’t really write any of her own songs. Instead she sang songs by other people in a new and great way. The main exception
Henrietta Lacks was an african american women born on August 1, 1920, “into a family of impoverished tobacco farmers in Roanoke, Virginia” (Spigner 1).On January 29, 1951 Henrietta went to Johns Hopkins. John Hopkins was the only hospital in the area that treated black patients at that time. Henrietta went in because she felt a "knot" in her womb.She had previously told her cousins about the "knot" and they presumed that she may have been pregnant. They were correct, henrietta was indeed pregnant and she gave birth to her daughter Deborah. But after giving birth to her daughter Deborah, Lacks had a severe hemorrhage. A hemorrhage is heavy bleeding from a tissue rupture. Her primary care doctor only tested her for syphilis, which came back
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot gives a description of the background of Henrietta,the lacks family,and her death from cancer. Henrietta Lacks was born Loretta Pleasant in Roanoke,Virginia on August 1st,1920.Her mother,Eliza Pleasant died while giving birth to her 10th child. Henrietta's father was unable to handle all ten of the children so he sent them all to Virginia. Henrietta was sent to live with her Grandfather Tommy Lacks in Clover,Virginia where she shared a room with her first cousin David “Day” Lacks they spent most of their childhood stooped in fields,planting tobacco. Henrietta and Day eventually got married on April 10,1941. Henrietta and Day then moved to Baltimore,Maryland;
Did you ever wonder what are when HELA cells came to exist ?In the book the immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, The author answers all your questestion that you could ever have about HELA cells. In this book be theme would be injustice because the doctors took the cells form her Henrietta without her knowing because she was poor and didn’t have the money. HELA cells first came to be when Henrietta Lacks was telling a couple of her friends that she felt like she had a knot in her stomach. Five months later she had a child, but the pain in her stomach still continued, so she finally went to doctor Jones to look inside her to see if there was anything wrong. When the doctor was done with his inspection he told her that she
In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Henrietta was a poor, black, woman. Her cells were taken from her without her consent, but became one of the most important tools in medicine. Her cells assisted with gene mapping, cloning, developing the polio vaccine and much more.
The sky remained vacant the morning Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to touch base on Howland Island, for the last leg of their trip around the world. Leo Bellarts, the Chief radioman on the coast guard ship, was desperately sending radio signals, trying to reach the lost pilot in the air. On July second, 1937, Earhart and her plane, went down in the Pacific Ocean, and have not been found since then. Seventy-seven years after her disappearance, people are still searching for answers about the mysterious event in the Pacific.
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, since she was a little girl she was always a hard worker and determined to stand out and be different from everyone. Her mother’s name was Amy Earhart, her father’s name was Edwin Earhart, and she had a sister named Grace Earhart. Amelia’s family was different from many other people’s family back then. Amelia and Amy liked to play ball, go fishing, and play outside looking for new adventures, other family’s would rather stay inside and play with toys and not get messy or spend time outside. Amelia’s parents always knew she was different from all the other kids, she always got made fun of in school, and she had a lot more determination
She became very famous because during her time not many women had ever dared to do such thing. Many people started writing about her in the newspaper, about her great audacity, her courage and great achievements. As Susan Butler wrote in her book “The life of Amelia Earhart” which could not have given a better explanation for why Amelia was so recognized, she wrote, “She [Amelia Earhart] was a feminist that appealed to men as well as women because she used her promotion to promote not women’s causes but women’s self-esteem.” Amelia had really been noticed and that impacted her life greatly as she was able to share and promote her feelings, views, and ideas through the newspapers with some of the poems that she wrote. The poem Courage by Amelia Earhart published in the newspaper “Who is Amelia Earhart?” says, “How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare.” This shows Amelia Earhart’s strong thoughts and views as she believes we must dare to do something if we want to obtain it, not all things are obtained easily and we have to work hard. Not only was Amelia able to promote her thoughts and feelings but according to Susan Ware in her book Still
Born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas Amelia Earhart never fit in as a lady, she stood out as a tomboy. The name Amelia came from her mother and the mother before her; Earhart’s middle name of Mary was her father’s mother’s first name. Amelia
For the next sixteen days, Amelia would become the focus of the largest rescue attempt ever made for one lost aircraft. Some 250,000 square miles, an area as large as Texas, was searched. The search party involved sixty-five airplanes, ten ships, and 4,000 men. All of their efforts would prove pointless. No trace of Amelia or her plane was ever found. Her dissappearance would only greaten her fame (Family of Amelia Earhart 2).
Earhart is primarily commemorated for an attempted flight around the world that she never completed. The reason for this is because of the mystery of her never being seen again, but people after her time did not realize her further important revolutionary acts. Earhart was a feminist by actions, rather than words. “Throughout her career Earhart represented the modern woman using technology as a means to liberate herself from social constraints” (American Decades n. pag.). The author stated that Earhart was using the technology of airplanes to be reduced from stress brought onto women. Earhart later realized she could use her flight talent to support women’s rights. She went out to prove to men that women could equally do the same jobs by breaking records flying planes. Earhart wanted to be preeminent to men:
In the 1937 newspaper, article “Amelia’s Voice Heard by Amateur Radio Operator”, The Atchison Daily Globe reports on two Los Angeles amateur radio operators who claimed they heard Earhart transmit a distress signal at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time. The article expresses doubt about these clams using the statement “[In] San Francisco, however, a coastguard station reported at noon Eastern Standard Time it had received no word whatever although radio reception was unusually good” . The article also presents evidence supporting the two Radio operators, by explaining the amateur radio operators, “interpreted radio signals as placing the plane adrift near the equator between Gilbert Islands and Howland Island” . The article also, reports, because of this possible transmission from Earhart caused action, “the navy department ordered the battleship Colorado with three planes aboard, to begin a search from Honolulu, where it arrived yesterday ”.
Amelia Mary Earhart was the first of two children to be born to Amy Otis. Her Grandfather, Alfred Otis, was a high class citizen in Atchison, as well as a judge. Edwin, Amelia’s father, endured many failures which caused his blooming alcoholism to worsen, bringing his family into an unknown poverty. Making a tough decision Amy sent Amelia and her younger sister Muriel to their Grandparents to attend The College Preparatory in Atchison. In 1908, at the Iowa State Fair that Amelia’s father took her to, she caught a glimpse of her first plane. Upon Amelia’s first sight of the plane she had thought it was a “thing of rust wire and wood, not interesting at all.”
(Gillespie, p xiii) On July 19th, the search was called off. (Amelia Earhart, Biography, p 1-2) Throughout the years, many theories about her disappearance have been developed. Crash and Sank Theory