Essay On Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart
Have you ever been daring enough to think outside the box or do something out of the ordinary? Maybe you have, or maybe you’ve been too scared to. 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 a sled off a barn roof, calling it a roller coaster. She also played all the sports that, normally, only boys played, like football and basketball. During the summer of 1907, Amelia’s dad, Edwin, took her and her sister, Muriel, to the Des Moines State Fair. Edwin was really attracted to the model airplane at the fair. On the other hand, Muriel and Amelia, surprisingly, were unamused. They just thought the plane was boring. (Lardner, 205-207).
In 1917, Amelia and her mother took a trip to Toronto, Canada, even though, there was a war happening. Amelia saw wounded soldiers on her left and right. She knew she had to help

It was a bright, yellow Kinner Canary. Amelia took a lot of risks and was very daring with her flying. She did flips and tricks with her plane. Once, she even flew out of the cockpit because she flipped too many times and it was too violent for the plane to handle. But, nothing could ever scare Amelia away; she loved flying too much. A lot of things were accomplished by Amelia with her flying skills. She broke many records with her plane. The first record she broke was for highest altitude. She took her Canary up to 14,000 feet; no one had ever been up that high before. Another accomplishment for Amelia was that she made a job that involved flying called Aviation. (Lardner,