As a child, she spent the winter months with her grandparents in Atchison and the summers with her parents in Kansas City, Kansas. Earhart's grandparents, Alfred and Amelia Otis were well off, and although Amelia would know some financial hardship in her teens and twenties, her early life was spent in the midst of plenty. Alfred Otis was a retired U.S. District Court Judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank, and chief warden of Trinity Episcopal Church. Amelia attended a private
In a small house near Atchison, Kansas, Samuel “Edwin” and Amelia Earhart welcomed their new baby girl on July 24, 1897. Following the family tradition, their little girl was named Amelia Mary after her two grandmothers. Amelia had a wonderful childhood. Most of her time was spent playing with her little sister, Muriel. The girls possessed a spirit of adventure from a young age and played for hours in their neighborhood exploring, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and "belly-slamming" her
“Amelia Earhart gave millions of women, suffering through the Great Depression, a reason to be proud.” (Amelia Earhart) {Thesis} Amelia Earhart’s childhood was almost good as her adulthood. Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas (Quick Reference Facts). Earhart attended six different high schools, but still got excellent grades and graduated on time (Quick Reference Facts). When Amelia Earhart was 10 years old, she saw her first airplane at the state fair. She wasn’t impressed
Born on the first of August, in a dainty town, Amelia is quite down to earth and loveable. She is determined and strong, yet soft and squishy. She enjoys being around those she loves, but mostly loves her sister Lynsia. Although optimistic and kind hearted, she has a short temper and in turn causes a loud mouth, later causing regret and hurt to those around her. Cursed by exercise-induced asthma, Amelia is required to carry around a quaint inhaler. She is 5’3 and weighs just under 150 lbs, making
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BSNF) was formed December 31, 1996 when Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Railroad merged as one. It is the second largest railroad system in the United States behind the Union Pacific. It owns and operates tracks in 27 states, mostly in the West and Midwest states, and a small amount of track located in Canada. Due to the complexity of the company, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is broken down into 14 different divisions
Visionaries and deep thinkers have walked the earth since the beginning of recorded time. Their guiding principles concerned evolution of consciousness toward wisdom. Increasing wisdom consciousness defeats the abstract societal label known as "average". Simply stated, we are all born with potential to become smart people. Smart people are generally great achievers, successful in business and family, and positive of mind. They have trained themselves to squeeze every drop of brain juice within
town, was created; named after the successful mine. In 1876 Huchason leased out the Juanita mine and sold both the Graphic and Kelly mines (Harris, 97). With the mining came the railroads. In December of 1878 the first train came to New Mexico, the Atchison, Topeka, and S... ... middle of paper ... ...n all night” (Harris, 98). To meet the demand for space, hotels started limiting customers to one eight-hour shift a night. (Harris, 98). The smelter went through many changes during its run, many
Angle of Geese and Other Poems MOMADAY had been writing poetry since his college days at University of New Mexico, and this volume incorporates many of his earlier efforts. Momaday admired the poetry of Hart Crane as an undergraduate, and early poems like "Los Alamos" show Crane's influence. Under the tutelage of Yvor Winters at Stanford Momaday developed an ability to provide clear, precise details and images in his verse. As a graduate student at Stanford, Momaday absorbed the influence
would like to write about St. Mark’s Lutheran church, Atchison, Kansas. The history of the church is very unique. My first call was at this church and I also made new history by being the first woman pastor also a person of color. Time and place shape the formation of all institutions. This is certainly true of Atchison, Kansas and St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. In 1859 Abraham Lincoln came to Atchison to speak on the issues of the day. While Atchison had been founded as a pro-slavery area, it had rapidly
S. Todd Atchison, a post-colonial writer from the University of North Carolina, discusses in his article, “Why I am writing from where you are not”: Absence and presence in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, the distortion of language and how people acquire an inability to comprehend and communicate after experiencing traumatic events. Likewise, Sascha Scheuren, a student of English Studies at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonns, used his thesis, Trauma in
quality required for a good primary source. This paper will prove this article, “Amelia’s Voice Heard by Amateur Radio Operator”, possesses these three traits. In the 1937 newspaper, article “Amelia’s Voice Heard by Amateur Radio Operator”, The Atchison Daily Globe reports on two Los Angeles amateur radio operators who claimed they heard Earhart transmit a distress signal at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time. The article expresses doubt about these clams using the statement “[In] San Francisco, however, a
Christian progress, and the Native American presen... ... middle of paper ... ...itself. The abolitionist senator Charles Sumner delivered a fiery speech called "The Crime Against Kansas," in which he accused proslavery senators, particularly Atchison and Andrew Butler of South Carolina, of [cavorting with the] "harlot, Slavery." In retaliation, Butler's nephew, Congressman Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner at his Senate desk and beat him senseless with a cane. In September of 1856, a new territorial
Amelia Earhart; An American Woman Pilot Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas and Disappeared July 2, 1937 on her travel trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Samuel Stanton Earhart and Amelia Otis Earhart were parents of Amelia, Amelia was 1 out of 2 kids. Until she was twelve she lived with her wealthy maternal grandparents, Alfred and Amelia Harres Otis, in Atchison, Kansas. Where she attended a private school, her summers were spent in Kansas City, Missouri, where her lawyer-father
source A, David Atchison, the U.S. Senator for Missouri states, “ Tear down their boasted Free State Hotel til it shall fall to the ground.” The Free State Hotel was important because it was the headquarters of the anti-slavery Abolitionists. Boasted means to brag and to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself. Tear down mean to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially to leave ragged or irregular edges and to divide or disrupt. This indicates Atchison, the leader
Technology is changing everything around us including our sports. With modern technology now, we can implement it into our professional sports to make the games fair. Instant replay is the most important luxury in our sports today. It allows officials and the fans to look back at the recent play and decide if the correct call was made. Not all sports have implemented it into its rules yet. The commissioners of America’s favorite sports are discussing the rules of instant replay and are including
leader of the best country in the world, and Amelia Earhart cannot be forgotten. In this essay, we will discuss the many accomplishments and touch on highlights that make up the life of Amelia Earhart. Amelia Mary Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She was named after her two
power and perseverance of American women, and the adventurous spirit so essential to the American persona. Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24th, 1897 to Edwin and Amy Earhart. Amelia learned to read at age five and started building stuff with her hands around seven. Starting in the first grade she attended the College Preparatory School in Atchison. Her family moved to Minnesota during 1913-1914 where she went to St. Paul Central High School. Amelia was more in control of her own
daunting mass, lies on the page something so obscured that it can only communicate Grandfather’s amplified silence (Foer, #). As Atchison notes on this occasion, “no room yields no voice” (Atchison, 365). In this instance, Grandfather’s representation of language serves as a symbolic release as he struggles to express the disorder that resulted from his personal trauma. The chaos of Grandfather’s communication, therefore, serves not only to emphasize the survivor’s linguistic processing of his psychological
To open a novel and find pictures can be quite strange and something that the reader is not used to. To open a graphic novel and find it to be about a serious and devastating time in history can have the same effect. The reader then begins to question these images, illustrations and new visual devices and tries to understand what their relationship with the story is. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is a novel whose narrative is interpreted, quite frequently, by visual devices
The Value of Conflict The word conflict stirs up thoughts of anger, friction, mistrust, frustration, and hostility. Rarely does anyone think of conflict as a tool for deeper thinking, better results, and communication that is more dynamic. When unmanaged, team conflict can destroy cohesiveness, but teams that use conflict resolution strategies can turn their conflict into an asset. Managed conflict can promote an exchange of ideas to generate well-thought-out results, encourage team members to think