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    didn’t work outside of the home as much. Amelia was a tomboy, she wore pants, climbed trees, and went hunting just like a boy would do. Amelia saved the newspaper clippings when woman did things men would do. In 1937 Amelia and her navigator Fred Noonan set out to travel around the world. They didn’t come back unfortunately, nobody today has a complete 100 percent theorie. It has been 81 years since their plane and them disappeared. Will it ever be known what happened to them? “Courage is the

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    When Amelia Earhart saw her first plane she was not impressed. It just looked like a pile of metal. It was not until Amelia Earhart attended a stunt flying exhibition almost a decade later that she began to realize how interested she was in aviation. After graduating Amelia Earhart took her first flying lesson and within six months was able to come up with enough money to buy herself her first plane. Amelia Earhart named the plane “Canary” and used it to set her first women’s record by raising

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    Critical Approaches of Flight “Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.”- Amelia Earhart. Learning about the things Zits went through was hard. He did not have a dad. His dad walked out on him when he was born. He never had a father figure to look up to and learn from. Historical biographical goes with this book because of all the historical

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    No one knows what happened to Amelia Earhart for sure, but there are some theories and hypothesis and what may have happened to her. The three main theories are: The Crash and Sink theory, The Gardner Island Hypothesis, and the theory that the Japanese captured Amelia. Amelia Earhart was the first female aviation pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart started off as an nurse aide for Red Cross during WWI and was stationed in Toronto, Canada

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    magnificent journey. Noonan and Earhart started the flight from Oakland, California, with the plan being that they would go from there to Hawaii for the first part of the excursion. Next, they would fly across the Pacific Ocean to Australia which would be the longest and most dangerous leg of the flight. After that, they would make their way back to California by travelling to Africa and eventually landing in Florida. However, this plan soon vanished when Earhart and her companion Noonan were attempting

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    Amelia Earhart Impact

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    “It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.” which means that when you 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

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    Female Pioneer Aviation is a topic that is often discussed focusing on the pilots themselves, specifically Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman, rather than the impact they had on the world, even today, such as the advances made in the technology of planes after the radio failed Amelia, resulting in her unknown death, the inspiration many aspiring female and even some male pilots needed at the time of revolutions- the 1920’s to the 1960’s, and the importance of gender and racial equality. As Amelia

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    Amelia Earhart Introduction Amelia Earhart once said, “Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” This quote explains Amelia Earhart’s thoughts and ideas in a nutshell. She was a very charismatic person who excelled in her studies, her writing, and her own aviation career. She was also an aviation pioneer, who took her piloting very seriously. Amelia Earhart was a women devoted to her plane career, her personal studies

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    decision to be the first person to circumnavigate the world by the equator’s line, she assembled the best crew she could find. It included Captain Harry Manning, the captain of the President Roosevelt, Fred Noonan, a marine and flight navigator, and Paul Mantz, a Hollywood stunt pilot. Manning and Noonan were to be her

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    Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas, 1897. When she was seven her dad had enough money to take the family to see the world’s fair in St. Louis Missouri. While there, she and her younger sister Muriel saw a big roller coaster. When they went home Amelia tried to build her own. She did have help from Muriel, her uncle, and a friend. Wooden tracks went from the top of a shed to her yard. A little buggy was their mode of transportation. The tracks were greased with fat to make it go faster. Amelia was

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