Amelia Earhart

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 Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24 1897. She's the daughter of a railroad attorney and spent most of her childhood in many towns. As a young girl Amelia was always braver than most girls and she was more of a tomboy. She climbed trees and hunted rats, she also kept a scrapbook of successful woman in male oriented fields.

     After she graduated high school in 1915, Amelia attended a girls finishing school in Philadelphia. She left during her second year to work as a nurses aid in World War 1. She then attended college and became a social worker in Boston. Amelia took her first flying lesson on january 3,1921 and she decide she wanted to fly. She bought her first plane with the help of her mother and sister. She named her plane canary and used the plane to set her first woman's record by rising to an altitude of 14,000 feet. 

    On one afternoon in April she got a phone call that would change her life. At first she wasn't going to answer but after deciding it was an important call she took it. "How would you like to be the first woman to fly solo across the ocean?" said the man. She replied "Yes". On June 17 1928, Amelia  arrived at Bury Point , Wales and 21 hours later, the flight made headlines. In 1931 Amelia married George Putnam, they met when he published one of her books 20 hours-40 minutes. In June 1937, she attempted to be the first woman to fly around the world but she never made it, Amelia Earhart vanished on July 2, 1937.

   I chose to do this blog on Amelia because she is a great role model. I like that shes brave and doesn't give up if she fails at something. The first time she attempted to fly across the Atlantic ocean she didn't make it because her plane broke down. But a few months later she tried again and made it. Her story always interested me and I always wanted to learn more about her and how she went missing. 
    
I will be writing about what her life was like and hopefully find out something about the reasons she vanished.

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