Amelia Earhart Research Paper

Amelia Earhart; An American Woman Pilot

Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas and Disappeared July 2, 1937 on her travel trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Samuel Stanton Earhart and Amelia Otis Earhart were parents of Amelia, Amelia was 1 out of 2 kids. Until she was twelve she lived with her wealthy maternal grandparents, Alfred and Amelia Harres Otis, in Atchison, Kansas. Where she attended a private school, her summers were spent in Kansas City, Missouri, where her lawyer-father worked for the Rock Island Railroad. Many people believe that women can’t do as much as men can, but Amelia Earhart proved those men wrong and become a hero.

Amelia Earhart was a very limitless person in her career and personality. She proved

everyone that she could do just as much as men by flying a plane and doing it solo. During this time promoters sought to have a woman fly across the Atlantic Ocean, and in April 1928 Earhart was selected for the flight. In 1928 crossing had brought her, Earhart flew the Atlantic alone on May 20–21, 1932. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
Amelia Earhart was an independent women. In 1933, she a functional clothing line which was designed “for the woman who lives actively.” Amelia bought her first airplane in 1921 and she named it “ The Canary”. On the 5th of July 1930, she set the record of speed on a 3k course at 181.81 mph. Also the first woman flying a solo nonstop coast to coast. Setting the women’s nonstop transcontinental speed record, flying 2,447.8 miles in 19 hours, 5 minutes. She let no one stop her from doing anything she could handle. Including her books she wrote and thing she participated in.
Earhart also demonstrated strength and toughness in her life and career. First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo in 14 hours and 56 minutes. She set so many records such as times, distance and even dangerous altitudes. She amazed so many people by doing what she loved, her being told that flying is only a men’s job. She made any flight possible even if it meant her last flight or if it was days of flying. She let nothing get in her way. Amelia knew by outdoing all these men, she can get so much more women to go out and fly and get attached to it. She wanted a change in how people saw women doing things men did.
Amelia Earhart was judged on how she loved what men did, they were wrong, she was an american hero. On her last solo across the Atlantic Ocean, she set off on July 1, 1937. On July 2, 1937 on the way back, she was declared lost at sea. No one knows what happened but scientists had found in March of 2018 discovered that 99 percent that they found were Amelias. Amelia was a true American hero to women and people across America.