Amelia Earhart: An Expedition Across The Atlantic Ocean

Amelia Earhart: An Expedition across the Atlantic Ocean

People have always been divided or classified into two simple categories, male or female. Many of them may have heard at some point in their lives the ongoing discussion of feminism, but not all have taken a deep look at what has been done and has happened for everybody to have reached such level that women like men are viewed in most and many ways equal. Amelia Earhart was a person that changed and proved the ability, responsibility, and equality of women. Amelia Earhart's expedition across the Atlantic Ocean affected many women's lives because it allowed her to keep doing what she had always desired, she became a role model for other women, and she changed society's perspective of women.

In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to pilot a plane across the Atlantic Ocean.

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

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In the 1920s and 1930s independent and individualistic heroines from popular culture- women like Amelia Earhart- personified a model of women’s post suffrage achievement that was widely, and sympathetically, reported in the media and spread in popular culture.
(Ware Prologue)
Susan Ware also believed Amelia was also able to promote and spread her image through the media. Amelia Earhart also received very regarding letters for her outstanding achievements that encouraged her. Amelia received a Congratulatory telegram from the Women's Chamber of Commerce, which said, “We congratulate you on the record recently established stop just another proof of women’s capabilities stop we recall with pleasure your visit with us.” Letters like this encouraged Amelia to continue demonstrating people what women are capable of. Amelia’s life was affected by her notable achievement and allowed her to keep doing what she loved which was flying and to make a change and be in charge of her life and actions like a great independent women.
Amelia Earhart strongly affected many other women by becoming a role model they could look up to and follow.

She was a feminist woman with great courage and good will. She was always reminded and thanked for her good strong actions that showed feminism was something possible. Amelia received a letter from the Clarksburg Rotary Club in which it said, “Congratulations your daring solo across the Atlantic placed womans achievements in aviation at a new high mark in history welcome back to our shoes.” This letter shows how big of an inspiration and leader Amelia Earhart was through her outstanding expedition. Amelia was also determined aside from her own goals to help other women. In the article “Who is Amelia Earhart?” by Marion Perkins, he shares some of his knowledge about Amelia, in the article he shares some of Amelia Earhart’s personal notes which said, “I shall try to keep my contact with the women who have come to class; Mrs. S. and her drunken husband, Mrs. F’s struggle to get her husband here, Mrs. Z. to get her papers in the face of odds, all are problems that are hard to relinquish after a year’s friendship.” This short but meaningful note written by Amelia shows the way she cared and wanted to help other women get the education they deserved and have more opportunities. Amelia was also a great role model for many women because her expedition across the Atlantic Ocean was a reminder and proof that anything was possible. Susan Ware wrote, “Amelia shared this

expansive and optimistic vision. She truly believed that if women proved themselves competent in aviation, and by extension in all aspects of modern life, prejudices would fade and barriers would fall.” Amelia was a positive woman and always gave an optimistic view about something to give hope to other women and let them know that things would change for the best. Needless to say, Amelia always encouraged other women to become independent, dare themselves, and chase their dreams like she had and how she was able to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Susan Ware also included in her book a strong meaningful quote Amelia Earhart said once:
I advise them all to identify themselves with some sort of economic activity. I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but to find out through experience what she wants to do. For that reason I ask the girls to measure themselves against others who are earning a living. I endeavor to find out why girls select particular subjects for study, what other interest they have, and to let them see what other women are doing in these various fields.
Amelia Earhart was a strong feminist contender who knew what had to be done to make a difference and she supported women by giving them strength and inspiration with strong words like the ones Susan Ware included in her book. Not only did Amelia become a great role model by supporting women but also demonstrating that women are just as physically capable to do the same things as men. In the New York Times Newspaper, Jane Mendelsohn wrote an article about Amelia in which she said, “Earhart’s courage and boldness, her clarity of vision and, yes, her sense of herself as a modern woman who wanted to do “what men have already done” and “occasionally what men have not done” inspired me, too.” Mendelsohn is demonstrating how Amelia Earhart became a role model for her. Amelia’s strong personality and feminist thinking inspired her by telling her that women are just as capable as men. Furthermore, in the book The Life of Amelia Earhart, the author also included a great quote from Amelia in which she said, “I try to make them understand that it is just as important to give work to women as men, for they had an equal need for mental stimulus and feeling of accomplishment and economic independence.”