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    Her name was Amelia Mary Earhart she was born July 24‚1897 in Atchison Kansas. Her nickname growing up was “AE”. Growing up she was a tomboy she was always doing things that normal boys did like climb trees. (Glines‚ 1997) As Amelia was learning to fly in California in 1922 she took odd jobs in order to help pay for flying lessons. With the financial help from her sister and her mother‚ she bought her first airplane. It was a Kinner Airster. When her parents became divorce she moved back where she

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    how do we know what is really true or most important? Elementary teachers are required to use multiple informational for this reason‚ such as primary documents along with the trade books. In this article‚ the authors examine Abraham Lincoln and Amelia Earhart due to both of them being popular topics within the elementary curricula. Multiple trade books at the elementary level were chosen to be examined on each topic. All books were reviewed and the potential areas of historical representation and

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    Amelia Earhart: Role in Woman Status Amelia Earhart was born on July 24‚ 1897 in Atchison‚ Kansas‚ and died on January 5‚ 1939. Earhart is an international hero and between 1930 and 1935 she set seven women distance aviation and speed records. Earhart wanted to be the first women to fly around the world. Many things that she has done were considered unladylike at that time period. She was talked bad about and unsupported; yet that didn ’t change her determination to accomplish and reach her dreams

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    Amelia Earhart Imagine being discriminated against and not able to do what you are set to do. Amelia Earhart is an inspiration to all women around the world. She overcame many struggles in her life to achieve her goals. After accomplishing great things she was recognized as a determined‚ strong‚ women. Not many people believed inhere however she believed in herself and became somebody important to the world. Not only did she inspire others but she as well inspired many young girls who didn’t believe

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    admitting to military presence in the region. As Carol Linn Dow points out in her book “The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart”‚ whether Earhart and Noonan were in fact spying for the U.S. government‚ the Japanese “had little choice but to have considered the two as such” 29. This theory is more plausible‚ as one only has to prove that the Japanese captured them instead of also proving Earhart and Noonan were spies. The only obstacle standing in the way of this theory is that Noonan was an excellent

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    The Significance of Amelia Earhart It’s easy to say that in the early to mid 20th century‚ it was a man’s world. The career field was dominated by powerful and famous men‚ until one woman stepped into the scene. Amelia Mary Earhart was a female aviator that forever changed the world’s view on women in the working world. Born on July 24‚ 1897 in Atcheson‚ Kansas‚ Amelia grew up with a supportive family and a lifelong desire of adventure. Her family moved to Chicago‚ and she graduated from Hyde Park

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    Through the Looking Glass of Amelia Earhart “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things: Knows not the livid loneliness of fear‚ nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living‚ compensate for dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice‚ we pay with courage to behold the resistless day‚ and count it fair” (“Poem

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    Bam! Pow! Tink Tink! Those sounds are the sounds of the Vikings and Amelia Earhart changing the whole world forever. There are many explorers in the past‚ the present‚ and future. Some explorers were very important and well known like Amelia Earhart or the great explorers the Vikings.The Vikings and Amelia are different and similar in many ways. First‚The Vikings are my past explorers. They traveled around 1000 A.D.Most of the Vikings used boats to travel.Since the Vikings traveled in the wild they

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    interesting young girl who is the hero of the book “The Breadwinner”. Amelia Earhart was also an interesting lady who was also the hero of a different kind. I chose to compare Parvana and Amelia Earhart because I wanted to choose someone who possibly visited Afghanistan. I wanted to see how many personalities they have. Parvana and Amelia Earhart were both brave‚ educated‚ small (in size)‚ determined and both female. Amelia Earhart was brave because she took a risk that many a man would pale at the

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    Amelia Earhart: A Woman with a Strong Heart In 1932‚ Amelia Earhart became the first woman and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic (Amelia). Amelia’s success not only as an aviator but as a writer and activist encouraged women in their fight for equality in the United States. Amelia set numerous aviation records that led her to be one of the first female celebrities known for her success rather than her beauty. Her fight for women’s suffrage and her formation of the Ninety Nines‚ a women’s

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