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What Is Amelia Earhart Role Model

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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. However, In 1921, Amelia Earhart went to her first air show in Los Angeles and had her first airplane ride. That was when “she knew she had to fly.” (Historynet) Earhart took lessons soon after her first ride, where she was criticized, by others and her family. During the 1920s, flying was considered only for men and was unfeminine, and Earhart’s choice to fly had caused people to judge her heavily. Despite all that, Earhart broke her first record in 1922 for the Women's Altitude Record at fourteen thousand kilometers above the ground. Amelia Earhart showed the world how capable …show more content…

This would be her first big record, the first woman to successfully attempt the Transatlantic, and that was exactly what happened. In 1928, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic ocean on air. In 1932, Amelia Earhart attempted the challenge again, however, by herself. She was facing a lot of criticism, for crashing multiple times at take off, saying that she was not a good pilot afterall. To prove herself, Earhart succeeded the Transatlantic and became the first woman to be rewarded with the National Geographic’s gold medal for her undeniable

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