Amelia Earhart's Life: Amelia Earhart: Beginning To End

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Amelia Earhart’s life. Beginning to End
Amelia Earhart’s life was an interesting one. From being the daughter of a busy father that had drinking issues, to being taught by one of the best to fly an airplane. She trained in the medical field but continued to follow her dream of flying working odd jobs along the way to support herself. With the rise of Amelia’s popularity and her being an inspiration to woman all around the world. Finally, attempting to fly around the world and mysteriously disappearing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Amelia’s early life and the reason she enjoyed flying so much. Amelia was born in 1897 in Atcheson, Kansas, where she lived with her very wealthy maternal grandparents and her younger sister. Their grandparents …show more content…

This trip made her the first woman to fly solo both ways across the United States (Gale, 8 Nov. 2017). Shortly after this great feat, Amelia was married to George Putman, who was a charming recent divorcee’. George was successful using his skills as a publicist to make Amelia’s personality a very well-known one across the whole country (WARE, 4 Sept. 2017).
Amelia Earhart made her first trip across the Atlantic on May 21st, 1932 as a pilot. She barely made it through her first long and daring flight across the Atlantic Ocean. For the first few hours of her flight, everything went well. Unfortunately, she then began to run into some pretty major difficulties. Amelia ran into a violent electrical storm, the altimeter failed, and to make it even worse, the wings iced up on both sides of the plane. The ice on the wings sent her into a tailspin forcing her to land early in Northern Ireland. She completed the daring flight in just under 15 hours. (Gale, 8 Nov. 2017). The original plan was to land in Paris. This flight gave her name, even more, popularity and fame all across the United States of

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