Amelia Earhart Conspiracy
"Amelia Earhart Conspiracy"
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Amelia Earhart Conspiracy
Introduction
Amelia Earhart was one of the most celebrated women aviators, breaking about fifteen different flying records. On June 1,1937 Earhart and Fred Noona, her navigator, began their round the world flight. If completed she would be the second person to finish this flight and the first women to ever accomplish the trip. On July 1,1937, with only 7,000 miles left on their trip, Earhart and Noona took off from Lae, New Guinea and flew 2,556 miles to Howland Island, but they would never reach their destination. After an extensive search party, there was no sign of Amelia or her plane, making the disappearance open for the worlds conspiracy …show more content…
theories. With analyzation of two conspiracy websites, they both tried to explain what really happened to Amelia Earhart. The International Ground for Historic Aircraft Recovery, the site better suited for an academic research paper, is a nonprofit foundation dedicating itself to promoting responsible aviation archaeology and historic preservation. Their web address is www.tighar.org. The CNMI guide is an information, travel guide website with the history of Northern Mariana Island. Their link to their Amelia Earhart page is www.cnim-guide.com/history/ww2/.
Part I: Similarities
The TIGHAR website and the CNMI Guide website both provide information on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. First, both websites have a nice clean look to them. The font is an appropriate size and color for each of their color schemes. Second, both pages keep a nice balance with visuals and information throughout the site. Also, some of the authors were noted for some information, but the websites failed to update for most of their information. In addition, at first glance both websites seem unreliable due to the visuals. Either the color scheme or the pictures were to childish, for it to feel like an educational site.
Part II: Content
The main difference between the TIGHAR website and the CNMI Guide is the content. The TIGHAR website is informative and it is completely devoted to aviation archeology and historic perseveration. Currently, TIGHAR has five projects including the Earhart Project. The site not only shares background information on each project, but also what TIGHAR believes happened according to the last known sighting and contact. The site provide a hypothesis for what really happened to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noona and provided the information to prove their hypothesis. The site provides a link to the Earhart Project archive, which shows their information sites. The information provided is unbiased and well written. The site is also sponsor funded, on the home page you can find a list of corporate sponsors, along with a page link to see letters from other sponsors, even some from children. Although, there are no shown dates that are updated, the site has updated information on their current expeditions that is under way (see fig. 1).
On the other hand, the CNMI Guide is actually a travel guide that offers some history for the island that Earhart and Noona could have possibly crashed landed, if they were spying on the Japanese navy. The information given in the article, comes off as bias and all speculation. The evidence the writer, Mr. William H. Stewart, provides is full of interviews from four Chamorro women on Saipan. However, none of the women are able to tell which year they saw a foreign women and heard a plane. The only information about Earhart is in one long article with a few graphics. One is a functional graphic, but when opened the font is so small it's almost unreadable. The homepage has a purpose statement, but not really a mission statement. It Provides links for rental cars and hotels for the island. Any information the site provides tends to be on one page, no breaks and very few graphics and some links our invalid. Altogether, this site is unreliable and unorganized.
Part III: Layout and Design
Visual design is what pulls a reader in wanting to explore the site more. Although, both sites do not have a great homepage, the TIGHAR site is clean and clear looking. The pages are the same throughout the site, the color scheme is constant on every page. The blue font on a grey background or black font on a white background makes the information easy to read. The site also has a menu bar either on the right side of the page or on the bottom, depending on the kind of information provided on that page making it easy to navigate throughout the rest of the site. The information on the pages are broken down in to small clear paragraph then is the reader wants to know more there is a more link and the end of each part. Also, every page has sufficient visuals so the reader wants to read more. Overall, this site is well organized and consistent leaving the reader wanting to return.
In contrast, The CNMI Guide homepage is small, all the information looks like its squeezed on the page instead of spaced out.
The font is small and different tabs seem to rotate different colors. The homepage provides a menu bar on the left side of the page. When clicking through the links, they lead to another page that just provides more link. Also, some links were dead . There were also few visuals on the pages. It was hard to navigate back to the Amelia Earhart page, since there was no straight link to the page and no search bar. Once, linked to Earhart's page the color scheme was different again and all the information was not broken down or reader friendly. The flow of the article was hard to understand, due to the writer not using any of the women's names. Compared to the TIGHAR site, it lacks organization, and consistence.
Recommendations
Although the TIGHAR website would be the best site for academic research paper, some of visual graphics could use some work making them look less childish. Also, it would help if the site shared more information about who the writers are and when the page was last updated. The website would also benefit from some more detailed maps. Going through the information readers like to know where the events are taking place at. Visuals are what keep the readers interested in the information.
The CNMI site would not be the best site to use for a research paper on Amelia Earhart. The site needs to fix the links, pick a color scheme and keep it throughout the site. Along with breaking up the articles and applying more
visuals.
Conclusions
The TIGHAR website is a sponsor website that has accumulative data and research for years to back up their website. On the other hand, the CNMI website seemed to have no real information about Amelia Earhart and Fred Noona. Therefore, the TIGHAR website would, by far, be the best site to use for a research paper.
Works Cited
Stewart, William H. "Saipan and the Mystery of Amelia Earhart." Saipan and the Mystery of Amelia Earhart. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 July 2012. .
"The Earhart Project." The Earhart Project. TIGHAR, 2010. Web. 01 July 2012.
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Figure 1. Above is the container which is the control center for the ROV, welded to the upper deck of K-O-K, and featuring the Fed-Ex promotional slogan and the TIGHAR logos.
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Amelia Earhart Conspiracy
Introduction
Amelia Earhart was one of the most celebrated women aviators, breaking about fifteen different flying records. On June 1,1937 Earhart and Fred Noona, her navigator, began their round the world flight. If completed she would be the second person to finish this flight and the first women to ever accomplish the trip. On July 1,1937, with only 7,000 miles left on their trip, Earhart and Noona took off from Lae, New Guinea and flew 2,556 miles to Howland Island, but they would never reach their destination. After an extensive search party, there was no sign of Amelia or her plane, making the disappearance open for the worlds conspiracy …show more content…
theories. With analyzation of two conspiracy websites, they both tried to explain what really happened to Amelia Earhart. The International Ground for Historic Aircraft Recovery, the site better suited for an academic research paper, is a nonprofit foundation dedicating itself to promoting responsible aviation archaeology and historic preservation. Their web address is www.tighar.org. The CNMI guide is an information, travel guide website with the history of Northern Mariana Island. Their link to their Amelia Earhart page is www.cnim-guide.com/history/ww2/.
Part I: Similarities
The TIGHAR website and the CNMI Guide website both provide information on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. First, both websites have a nice clean look to them. The font is an appropriate size and color for each of their color schemes. Second, both pages keep a nice balance with visuals and information throughout the site. Also, some of the authors were noted for some information, but the websites failed to update for most of their information. In addition, at first glance both websites seem unreliable due to the visuals. Either the color scheme or the pictures were to childish, for it to feel like an educational site.
Part II: Content
The main difference between the TIGHAR website and the CNMI Guide is the content. The TIGHAR website is informative and it is completely devoted to aviation archeology and historic perseveration. Currently, TIGHAR has five projects including the Earhart Project. The site not only shares background information on each project, but also what TIGHAR believes happened according to the last known sighting and contact. The site provide a hypothesis for what really happened to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noona and provided the information to prove their hypothesis. The site provides a link to the Earhart Project archive, which shows their information sites. The information provided is unbiased and well written. The site is also sponsor funded, on the home page you can find a list of corporate sponsors, along with a page link to see letters from other sponsors, even some from children. Although, there are no shown dates that are updated, the site has updated information on their current expeditions that is under way (see fig. 1).
On the other hand, the CNMI Guide is actually a travel guide that offers some history for the island that Earhart and Noona could have possibly crashed landed, if they were spying on the Japanese navy. The information given in the article, comes off as bias and all speculation. The evidence the writer, Mr. William H. Stewart, provides is full of interviews from four Chamorro women on Saipan. However, none of the women are able to tell which year they saw a foreign women and heard a plane. The only information about Earhart is in one long article with a few graphics. One is a functional graphic, but when opened the font is so small it's almost unreadable. The homepage has a purpose statement, but not really a mission statement. It Provides links for rental cars and hotels for the island. Any information the site provides tends to be on one page, no breaks and very few graphics and some links our invalid. Altogether, this site is unreliable and unorganized.
Part III: Layout and Design
Visual design is what pulls a reader in wanting to explore the site more. Although, both sites do not have a great homepage, the TIGHAR site is clean and clear looking. The pages are the same throughout the site, the color scheme is constant on every page. The blue font on a grey background or black font on a white background makes the information easy to read. The site also has a menu bar either on the right side of the page or on the bottom, depending on the kind of information provided on that page making it easy to navigate throughout the rest of the site. The information on the pages are broken down in to small clear paragraph then is the reader wants to know more there is a more link and the end of each part. Also, every page has sufficient visuals so the reader wants to read more. Overall, this site is well organized and consistent leaving the reader wanting to return.
In contrast, The CNMI Guide homepage is small, all the information looks like its squeezed on the page instead of spaced out.
The font is small and different tabs seem to rotate different colors. The homepage provides a menu bar on the left side of the page. When clicking through the links, they lead to another page that just provides more link. Also, some links were dead . There were also few visuals on the pages. It was hard to navigate back to the Amelia Earhart page, since there was no straight link to the page and no search bar. Once, linked to Earhart's page the color scheme was different again and all the information was not broken down or reader friendly. The flow of the article was hard to understand, due to the writer not using any of the women's names. Compared to the TIGHAR site, it lacks organization, and consistence.
Recommendations
Although the TIGHAR website would be the best site for academic research paper, some of visual graphics could use some work making them look less childish. Also, it would help if the site shared more information about who the writers are and when the page was last updated. The website would also benefit from some more detailed maps. Going through the information readers like to know where the events are taking place at. Visuals are what keep the readers interested in the information.
The CNMI site would not be the best site to use for a research paper on Amelia Earhart. The site needs to fix the links, pick a color scheme and keep it throughout the site. Along with breaking up the articles and applying more
visuals.
Conclusions
The TIGHAR website is a sponsor website that has accumulative data and research for years to back up their website. On the other hand, the CNMI website seemed to have no real information about Amelia Earhart and Fred Noona. Therefore, the TIGHAR website would, by far, be the best site to use for a research paper.
Works Cited
Stewart, William H. "Saipan and the Mystery of Amelia Earhart." Saipan and the Mystery of Amelia Earhart. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 July 2012. .
"The Earhart Project." The Earhart Project. TIGHAR, 2010. Web. 01 July 2012.
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Figure 1. Above is the container which is the control center for the ROV, welded to the upper deck of K-O-K, and featuring the Fed-Ex promotional slogan and the TIGHAR logos.