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    Amelia Earhart Outline

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    Introduction When Amelia Mary Earhart was first born, I heard she was a baby that loved to play with toy airplanes and then one day she got her own airplane and when she first flew her airplane, she fell in love with it. When she first got her own airplane She always would take it out and fly it around. She died on January 5th, 1939. Amelia was famous for being the sixteenth women to fly a airplane. She was married to George Palmer Putnam, for school Amelia went to Hyde Park High School, Columbia

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    Amelia Earhart Speech

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    you’ve been too scared to do it. Someone who wasn’t afraid was Amelia Earhart. She did something no one else had done or attempted to do before. Amelia Earhart, daring and outgoing from the start of her life, achieved many things, which is why she should be remembered because, indeed, flying is what ended her life. Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1898, in Atchison, Kansas. Around 1907, her whole family moved to Des Moines, Iowa. Amelia was a full out tomboy during her whole childhood. She once slid

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    Amelia Earhart Impact

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    do something for a while you can lose motivation but you have to keep going. That is how Amelia made her impact. Amelia Earhart impacted the citizens of the United States because she was the first woman to solo fly across the Atlantic, beat women's altitude, and the first woman to fly coast to coast nonstop. She was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. Her parents are Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart. Amelia lived with her grandparents until she was 12, but she spent the summers in Kansas City, Missouri

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    Amelia Earhart Failure

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    Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and wanted more of a challenge by circumferencing the world. She took two attempts but the first failed when they landed in Hawaii to refuel and during takeoff three days later they had a tire explode on the runway. The mystery of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan has been thoroughly explored with no clear solution to the event, theories and pictures have been explored, but none prove what happened in the flight around

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    Amelia Earhart had a lot of challenges in her life, but she accomplished them by being a bold and brave woman. Earhart was young, bright, and full of energy and very curiosity. But she didn't know what she wanted to do with herself (Lauber 26). Until, one day she saw four one-legged men struggling down the sidewalk, and she decided to drop out of school and volunteered as a nurse's aide in the Toronto hospital for veterans (Lauber 27). Even though Earhart loved working as a nurse's aide, she still

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    A beaming picture of Amelia Earhart smiled up at me from the pages of my textbook, and seeing her name on that page made my young heart skip a beat. Mrs. Scott suggested that, perhaps, Amelia and I are related, and then proceeded with the lesson. I decided at that moment that my last name was my most magnificent characteristic, because it linked me to a celebrity. At that same moment, I made a subconscious vow to live up to my last name. I could not and would not let Amelia down. I dashed as fast

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    "By the time I had gotten two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly," were the words of Amelia Earhart that she expressed soon after she rode an airplane for the first time. Amelia Earhart was the first lady who flew across the Atlantic during her solo flight. She is known for her many records, accomplishments, and achievements. Her achievements are still remembered today, for she is a global inspiration to women. Many still admire her value of courage; she even wrote a poem about

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    The adventures of Amelia Earhart In 1897, Amelia Earhart was born to Amy Otis and Edwin Stanton Earhart. She grew up with her younger sister. They were raised in Kansas and Iowa. Amelia began to read books by Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, and William Makepeace Thackeray. As young children Amelia and her sister loved to pretend that they were on their own adventures. Once her family moved to Minnesota, they were separated from their father due to his enormous drinking problem.

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    Amelia Earhart Theory

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    My theory on Amelia Earhart is that she crashed in the Marshall Islands. I think she was running on a tank of about 4 hours left of fuel when she crashed. I think that when she reported cloud cover she flew into a storm towards hawaii and turned around reporting headed for the Guneine Islands. Although I think she must have turned high of her next fuelining stop. Which that lead her to a small island of the coast of the Marshalls. She must have crashed north of an island called Mili Atoll. Later

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    Essay about Amelia Earhart Biography

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    Amelia Earhart Many fantastic aviators have shown their talents throughout the centuries. Americans have been fascinated, time after time, with the ability to fly. One woman in particular took her fascinations and abilities and became one of the greatest aviators of her time. Amelia Earhart was a very famous, record-setting woman aviator. Amelia, while on her around the world flight in 1937, disappeared and left many people, even today, trying to figure out what happened to her. Amelia Earhart

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