Amelia Earhart: One of the most Influential Women

 Amelia Earhart could profoundly be named one of the most influential women of the early 1900's. With the very little time she had, she became a well-known ambitious role model to women all around the world. Especially because of her successful solo flight crossing the Atlantic, and her being the first woman to do it; but sadly her time as an aviatrix was shortened.

        Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. As a little girl she was faced some challenges, her father struggled from alcoholism, which caused her mother to leave her father and take Amelia and her sister with her. She graduated while living in Chicago, and went to a college in Philadelphia known as the Ogontz school. This was the first time she saw an amputee, because of that she left school to become a volunteer nurse until the war had ended. It wasn't until she'd moved back with her parents now living in California, that she had gone on her first airplane ride at an air show in 1920, in her biography, Amelia Earhart Biography, Amelia declared "As soon as we left the ground," she said, "I knew I had to fly."

        She began to partake in lessons, Earhart was taught by Neta Snook at California's Kinner Field. Then a year later, she got her license from the NAA. Two years later, with the help of others and working multiple jobs, she was able to afford her own plane. During this time female aviators were called to for a flight across the Atlantic; Amelia took part in it, and became the first female to fly solo over the Atlantic. With this newfound fame, she met Putnam whom became her manager, and soon to be husband.  He is the one who arranged her tours,flights, and speeches, but people began to view her as just a puppet to Putnam, which greatly angered her. Because of these accusations,  she went on expeditions by herself to prove she wasn't just Putnam's unskilled aviator, but one of great skill.

        One of the expeditions she took to prove herself was on the Lockheed Electra from Newfoundland, Canada, to Ireland which was not very easy to navigate alone, and she completed it in record breaking time too. She broke countless records even some that were set previously by herself.  Earhart also published many books such as, The Fun of It, 20Hrs., 40min.and, Last Flight,. Her books were mainly about her journeys and experiences on her voyages, and her strong passion for flight.

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