Essay About Amelia Earhart And Unknown Pilot

Amelia Earhart
Essay title: Amelia Earhart
The Life of :
AMELIA EARHART
“Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done – occasionally what
men have already not done thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging
other women toward greater independence of thought and action. Some such consideration was a
contributing reasons for my wanting to do what I so much want to do.” – Amelia Earhart.
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She was the daughter of a
lawyer who worked for a railroad company. Amelia would always think that if she could be famous
It would be a pilot. When Amelia was six years old her and her parents went to a county fair and
as Amelia was walking around she saw this big airplane and she didnt want to leave the county fair.
Until the age of 12 she lived with her sister and her grandparents in Atchison, Kansas but she
decided to move back with her parents to various cities where her father was working until he was
dismissed off of the railroads. For a short period of time after the war Earhart took a medical
course at Columbia University in New York. She then joined her family in Los Angeles and
persuaded her parents into taking flying lessons immediately. Amelias dreams were to own an
airplane and always be a famous airline pilot.
When Amelia was 17 years old she took a job at Massachusetts University Extension Program
instructing foreign students in English during her flying lessons. In 1920 Amelia went to an aerial
meet and was given a helmet and goggles, so Amelia boarded the open crock-pot biplane for a flight
over Los Angeles.
In 1927 an unknown pilot named Amelia Earhart captured the worlds imagination by making
the first non-stop solo air flight across the Atlantic Ocean. In March 1937 Amelia lost control of a
plane while it was taking off.
Over nine years spanning her first and