Research Paper On Sally Ride

Amelia Earhart was an icon. She was a feminist. Not only a pioneer but also brave. During Amelia’s life, all the goals she had achieved were attained through pure perseverance and resilience. While Earhart had become well-known for being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, she was likewise known throughout the world for her individual developments and aid in the feminist movement. She acknowledged a grander purpose in life which was the desire to live a life that surpassed beyond home and being confined in society. Her achievements in becoming an active feminist and succeeding in her dreams and goals prove her resilient courageous nature of being a woman during the 20th century despite being in a male dominant society.

Bessie Coleman was the first African American to hold a pilot license.She was handed her license in 1921. She was born January 26,1892 in Atlanta Texas. From the time Bessie was a little girl she knew she wanted to be different,to be noticed to be special. On June 15, 1921 Coleman became the first woman of African American native American culture to earn an aviation pilot's license and the first person of African-American and Native American culture to earn an international aviation license from the Federation Aeronautique International. Coleman wanting to improve her skills left and went to Paris for the next two months to take pilot lessons from a French ace. In September 1921 she sailed to New York. When she got back to the United

Men and women cannot be friends because of sex. This is the premise of my favorite movie, When Harry Met Sally. When Harry Met Sally is a comedic movie directed by Rob Reiner, written by Nora Ephron, and staring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. I first watched When Harry Met Sally with my mother when I was eleven years old. Over 30 views and I am still in awe of this movie. I choose to focus my paper on this movie because of it qualifications that make it my favorite movie. When Harry Met Sally has a fantastic cast, great lines, and an intelligent premise. I intend to focus on the most iconic scene in this movie, the orgasm scene. This scene occurs while Harry and Sally are just friends and Sally is trying to prove a point about women to Harry.

Sally Ride was a very intelligent and determined young girl as a young child she was interested in tennis. For example Ride had a science degree masters degree and a p.h.d in physics, but before any of this she was in love with tennis and made a junior tennis team. is an extraordinary person , on June 18th she was the first American woman in space at about 32 years of age. When Ride went to space she got put in the record books. Sally ride is a person who is determined to do what she wants and did awesome things

This early infiltration of “un-lady” like behavior helped shape Amelia Earhart into who she became. During her youth, Earhart stayed with her grandparents and went to school and college, however she did not finish the program there. But rather became a nurse’s aide, once seeing the need for help among those wounded from World War I. After undertaking this job, she enrolled as a pre-med student at Columbia University in New York. Earhart however, ended up moving with her parents to California. It was there that Earhart saw her first airshow and had her first plane ride. After her first ride, she became resolute to becoming an

Rosa Parks was tired and very weary after her long day at work on December 1, 1955, when she didn’t give up her seat to a white man.

Amelia Earhart achieved great things throughout her life. One of her famous quotes is “Women must try to do things men have tried. When they fail, their future must be a challenge to others.” (Amelia Earhart) Even when she failed, she proved that woman can be just as good as men. She accomplished so much in the time she was here. She did things like becoming the first woman to fly a solo round-trip flight across the U.S. in 1928, and even set the woman’s speed record of 181 miles per hour in 1930. She also become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 and continued to set a lasting example

July 24, 1897, a belligerent war against the norm of society is interrupted by the birth of one Amelia Earhart. From the time of her birth in Atchison, Kansas, to her disappearance in the Pacific Ocean at the age of 39, Amelia Earhart was venerated as a beacon of hope for women aviators around the world. She is recognized as the first woman aviator to set multiple records and some acclaim that Amelia Earhart is “perhaps the most effective activist of her time.” Acting upon a simple yearn for flight, Amelia Earhart managed to alter the public view on women as workers as a whole, and provided a hero during the ubiquitous devastation caused by the Great Depression.

Her Great Aviator Amelia Earhart remains not only one of the biggest mystery in history, but as well as a legend and role model for millions of people for her braveness and passion to flying. Her passion for flying and goals to promote women’s right made Earhart one of the biggest celebrities during the 1920s and 1930s. Although she faced many critics and failures, Earhart did not fail to prove herself with her brilliant records. From her first airshow to one of the best aviators of her time, Amelia Earhart demonstrated how passion and determination do not come with gender. During her childhood, Amelia moved countless of times due to her parents and worked countless jobs to survive.

“The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter” (Bio.). Sally Kristen Ride was the first female astronaut in space. She became an astronaut in 1983. It all started from a newspaper article she saw in 1977.

Sally Ride, the first woman to go into space, was born on May 26th 1951 in Encino California. She had many careers during her lifetime, and at this time period in America equal rights were just now starting to form. Although Sally Ride was a private person, information has arisen on her life.

Sally A Wainwright was born in 1963 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire England. Sally was brought up in Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire after she was born. Daughter of Harry and Dorothy Wainwright and sister of Diane Hilton. She is married to Austin-Sherlow Johnson with two children and now lives in the Cotswolds. As Sally grew up her home was not a happy household. In fact, Sally said “I don’t think my parent ever got [along]. I suppose I grew up in a house with quite a tense atmosphere” (Anthony). Wainwright being brought up in the environment she was in inspired her to writer. Unlike if raised in a normal household she would not have thought about wanting to be one when she became older.

Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, California on May 26, 1877. Along with her four older sisters, she was raised only by her mother, Dora Duncan, because her parents had divorced when she was very young. Once her parents were divorced, the family moved to Oakland, where her mother tried to make it through life by being a piano teacher. When Duncan was young, her mother would read famous works to her, such as Shakespeare and Whitman. This sparked the inspiration Duncan needed in order to create her own unique dance. At the age of 6, Isadora and her sister Elizabeth started teaching dance to all the girls that lived in her neighborhood. Isadora took ballet lessons at the age of 9, but soon quit because she felt it to be rigid and restrictive.

Sally Kristen Ride was born on May 26th 1951 in Los Angeles, California. She died on July 23rd 2012 after 8 long months of battling pancreatic cancer at the age of 61. After high school, she attended Stanford University in California. She earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in physics. On June 18th 1983 Ride became the first American Female to fly in outer space, in 1984 she went again and is the only person to have ever gone on both missions. Overall she is the third female in space after two Russian astronauts. She is also the youngest American (both male and female) to have gone into space at the age of 32. From a group of over 8,000 applicants she was chosen to join NASA in 1978. She was one of six women selected to the astronaut

In order to explore my topic, this paper commences by providing a background of Eileen Collins’s life before she joined NASA, afore then providing the key objectives that pertain to her. Next, these key objectives, which are: What do you find most significant about her accomplishments? , how do her accomplishments and/or strengths influence you? , what do you hope to accomplish after learning about a women who influenced aviation? , are fortified and covered. All of this converges to explain why Eileen Collins is an influential women and pioneer in the world of aviation.