Why Is Amelia Earhart Important

One important woman I think everyone should appreciate more and know more about is Amelia Earhart. There are many important things that Amelia has done. She made so many accomplishments that people look up to her for. She inspires so many people for so many different reasons. In this research project I learned a lot about Amelia Earhart that I had never known before. I loved learning more about her, and I hope this helps you learn more about her too.

Amelia was born on July 24, 1897 and died on July 2, 1937. She lived with her grandparents in Atchison Kansas for most of her life. Her parents names were Amy and Edwin Earhart. When Amelia was 2 and a half years old her parents gave birth to her sister Grace Muriel. Amelia would spend the school months with her grandparents and travel to see her parents in the summer. She spent her days adventuring in the

rural area of Kansas while also taking etiquette classes that girls her age and class were expected to take. Amelia, known as Millie, and her sister Grace, known as Pidge, loved to play outside with each other. They would build crazy inventions in their backyard. One was inspired by a World Fair they visited which when they got home they built a roller coaster. Millie enlisting Pidges help constructed it out of planks of wood, cardboard boxes, and lard for grease. Millie took the first ride, which ended in some bruises and such, but she was immediately sucked into the world of creativity. Amazingly the first time Amelia saw an airplane, in 1908 after she had moved back in with her parents in Iowa, it didn't interest her at all.
At first life in Iowa had seemed promising until the family underwent some hard times. Edwin, the father of Amelia, started to drink heavily and soon lost his job due to this. In 1915b the promise of another job came up so the Earhart family packed up and moved. When they got their the job had fallen through so yet again they were stuck with no money and no job. Finally, Amy, Amelia’s mother, got tired of this and moved her daughters and belongings somewhere else. The parents were officially divorced in 1924. Since her family moved so much Amelia attended 6 high schools in her lifetime. Along with this it was hard to make and keep friends so at the end of one of her high school years she was dubbed “the girl who wear all brown and walks alone”. Which is ironic because she was known for her friendly personality and kind nature. Once she graduated from high school she attended the Ogontz School in Philadelphia.
Amelia Earhart set many world records for flying. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, the first person to fly solo over the Pacific and the Atlantic, which she flew over in 20 hours and 40 minutes. Although you would think she would be remembered for these records it was actually her famous disappearance that she is known for. She disappeared while trying to be the first person to fly all the way around the world. She was lost on July 2, 1937. Also Earhart received her “Aviator Pilot” certification which is a big deal for any pilot from the past or the present! She received this award from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale on May 16 1921.
On January 3, 1921 she began her flying lessons with a fellow woman pilot Neta Snook.

In July of the same year she bought her first plane which she called “The Canary”. In the Fall of 1928 she published a book about her flight over the Atlantic called 20hrs 40mins. After this she toured, lectured, and became aviation editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. A year later in the fall of 1929 she was Elected as an official for National Aeronautic Association. Amelia was a very talented person and had many accomplishments.

There's an important lesson to learn in every story and this one is no difference. Amelia Earhart was one of the most inspirational woman. Amelia was an amazing sister and persevered even when things got hard at home for her. She understood that people are all the same and just because you're a woman doesn’t mean you are not as good as a man. She realized that the way people thought of you wasn’t going to change unless you changed it for yourself. She was a kind, friendly, and generous person and anyone who knew her could tell you that she was amazingly determined and didn’t take no as an

answer.