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This post will be my last. In this post I will be reflecting on this blog about Amelia Earhart. I will discuss what things I have learned by researching her. I will talk about what were the most challenging things about this blog and finally what is most rewarding.

I learned many things about Amelia but I'm only going to talk about the two most surprising things I learned about her. When Amelia flew the first time I always thought she flew across the Atlantic solo. But while I was researching  I found that she actually flew with pilot Wilmer Shultz and co pilot Louis Gordon. She was only a passenger on this flight and didn't do much flying but this sparked her interest of flying solo.

Another thing I found interesting while doing this blog, was that they found parts of her plane by an island. They were doing another search for her plane and looking for things that might be hers. And they were taking pictures of the ocean floor. In the picture they saw what looked like plane parts. On the nearby island they also found some freckle cream and other things too. I thought this was really cool.

Figuring out what to write for certain posts was really hard for me. When I had to do a post on compare and contrast I couldn't think of anything to do it on. And when I had to do a post on what's in the news lately about Amelia it was hard to find stuff on that. 

Also time was an issue for me, I felt that on the earlier posts I didn't get enough time to do them. We only got a day to figure out what to write and had to have it typed the next day. We would do two blogs a week. 

Learning a lot about Amelia Earhart was really rewarding. I always new a little about Amelia Earhart, so by doing this blog I got to know more and more about who she was and all the different accomplishments she did in her life.

I was getting really sick of doing this project and I'm glad this is the last post. It was fun learning about Amelia but towards the end it was getting boring kind of. And it's great feeling that I accomplished this project and learning more about Amelia.

This is my last post on Amelia Earhart. She has done so many great things and even though doing this blog was hard at times I still loved learning more and more about her great life. Thanks everyone for reading my blog on Amelia.

The 5 greatest accomplishments of Amelia Earhart

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In this post I'm going to focus on Amelia Earhart's greatest accomplishments. She is the most famous female pilot in the world because of everything she achieved and also when she disappeared because nobody could find her and still they are looking for her.

Accomplishment #5: longest flight
Even though Amelia Earhart went missing when she tried flying around the world, she still accomplished something. She broke the record of the longest flight without stopping. She flew from Miami Florida starting her 22,000 mile journey to Lae, New Guinae. This was one of the biggest accomplishments she achieved.
Read more about this at: (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq3-1.htm)

Accomplishment #4: first solo flight across pacific
In January 1935, Amelia decided to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. She started in Honolulu and flew all the way to Oakland California, completing yet another achievement.
read more about this at: (history.navy.edu)

Accomplishment #3: she got her flying license
After Amelia graduated from the Curtiss School of aviation, she was awarded her pilots license. She was the first woman to get this license and the 17th person(lib.purdue.org). Read more about this at: (lib.purdue.org)

Accomplishment #2: first flight across the Atlantic
Her first huge accomplishment was when she flew the Atlantic Ocean. In may she decided she would like to fly the Atlantic alone this time. She had already flew the ocean with two pilots. She wrote a book about that flight because it was her first major flight. She said to the reporter after she got off the plane that "she felt like a sack of potatoes, just sitting there" and she wanted to try it for herself. On may 20, 1932 she took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland and flew to Northern Ireland. When she got back she was a worldwide sensation and proved to every one that she was a brave pilot.(airandspace.si.edu)
Read more about this at: (http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/women/earhart.cfm)

Accomplishment #1: flying lessons
Ever since Amelia went to the fair when she was a child she always wanted to fly. When she went to California to visit her sister she decided to take flying lessons. In December 1920 she took her first lesson. And when her lesson was over she said to her instructor ''as soon as I left the ground, I felt myself I had to fly".(ameriaslibrary.gov)
Read more about this at: (http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/earhart/aa_earhart_learns_1.html)

These are just some of Amelia's greatest accomplishments. She has done so many amazing things in her life.

Flying versus Driving

Would it be better to fly or drive to certain places? Some say its easier to fly but it's really costly. Amelia Earhart is a pilot so she prefers to fly, it's faster to travel by plane than car. It's safer to fly than driving because planes don't crash very often and cars get in crashes a lot. My sources are travels.com and international-student.com.

My first source says that flying is safer than any other method of travel, although its very costly it's safer than driving a car. When you drive by car it takes longer to get to other states and areas and isn't very comfortable.Planes offer food and drinks and if you ride first class you can rent a cabin to sleep in. The modern world would be a very different place if we didn't have flight. Since we have planes we can visit relatives in other parts of the world more often.(travels.com)

The cost of flying keeps people from traveling by air. It's easier to fill up your car and drive to your destination. Airplanes cause  a lot of pollution because they let off greenhouse gases which cause global warming(international-student.com). It costs way to much to fly because prices are really high.

Both sources say flying is the fastest mode of transportation. It's easier to visit relatives that live out of state and its easier to go on business trips for work. The cost of flying is really high and driving is cheaper. The modern world would be a very different place if we didn't have planes to travel to visit people with and we can bring aid to other countries that need help.

Source one says when you travel by plane it's easier to get sick because their is no fresh air. If someone has a cold and coughs or sneezes, all the passengers would be at risk of getting sick. Source two says that if people had a traumatizing plane ride they could become afraid to fly. So many people who are afraid of fly prefer to drive to where ever their going.

I think flying would be a better way to get places because you can travel faster and get to places quicker. You can visit relatives in other areas. Amelia Earhart prefers to fly because she could get to certain places faster and she thought flying was really fun. And loved the way it made her feel.

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The history of flight

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Amelia Earhart's favorite thing to do was fly. She loved the way she felt as the plane would rise  higher and higher. But how did it all start? What's the history of flight?


Throughout the years people have been trying to figure out how to fly like the birds. There were myths about people flying and their was one about a king who captured a pegasus and another one about Icarus making wings of wax and feathers and he flew too high and got to close to the sun and his wings melted causing him to fall. People started thinking of ways to fly themselves after the kite was created in 400 B.C in China. After that people would attach feathers or wood planks to their arms, they would jump and flap their arms trying to fly. This didn't end so well many people got hurt because we are not built like birds their bones are hollow and light. Humans muscles are different than birds also.

Leonardo Di Vinci studied flying and what causes things to fly. He created the flying machine but he never created it. The flying machine was a new way people would try to fly. Many people tried creating it but it all failed.

One day we got hope that we could fly. The Wright brothers created a glider and tested out the different shapes that would be able to fly. After several tries they finally built a
plane. Once it it was created they tested it out and on December 17 1903, Orville Wright   piloted the plane as it lifted from the ground. The plane travelled one hundred and twenty feet.(NASA.gov)


After this moment people started to create different kinds of planes. Like ones that could carry people to different places and some to carry cargo.  

Amelia's favorite dish

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In this post I'm going to share with you how to make fried chicken and biscuits. In an article I read it said that fried chicken and biscuits was Amelia's favorite food and her mother always made it for her.
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What you'll need:

1 1/2 cups of buttermilk
3 pounds of chicken
2 tablespoons of chopped fresh parsley
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of dried oregano leaves
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoons of pepper
1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
A teaspoon of salt
1/4 cup of shortening
1/4 cup of chicken broth
1/4 cup of butter
2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 tablespoon of sugar

Find a bowl and place the chicken in it. Marinate for 30-60 minutes after pouring the buttermilk on the chicken. Mix 1 cup of flour, parsley, oregano, salt and pepper in a separate bowl. 3/4 of buttermilk is to be poured into a casserole dish. Make sure to set aside any extra flour and buttermilk.

Over medium high heat melt the shortening plus the butter in a skillet. Add the chicken fry for 6-8 minutes till brown. Put the buttermilk in a casserole dish then place chicken on top.

Have a measuring cup equal to 1/3 and strain the fat from the skillet, to put it into the cup. Add butter if their isn't enough fat. Scrape the brownings off the skillet and add broth. Pour the broth all over the chicken. Bake for 1 hour at 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Recipe

Mix the remaining flour with sugar, baking soda and the baking powder. Add remaining buttermilk and 1/3 cup of fat to make the dough nice and soft. Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough out then cut the dough into 2" rounds. Do this while the chicken is in the oven.

Have an ungreased cookie sheet and place the biscuits on the sheet. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Amelia's plane found?

    Off the coast of Nikumaroo Island forensic imagining specialists found a wheel and other landing gear. Amelia Earhart's plane was said to have went down close to Nikamaroo Island in 1937.

    "We don't know wether it's her plane, but what we have is a debris field in a place where there should be a debris field. If what we had put together based on the evidence that we had is correct." Said Ric Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Recovery.(Abcnews.com)

  When Gillespie was on the expedition to find Amelia's plane he said he was bummed because he didn't see anything in the coral reef from the video camera. They used a high definition camera but it couldn't be viewed in real time, so they sent it to a forensic analyst. On Tuesday he got a call and the forensic analyst said there's stuff here, it looks man made.

  The last thing that Amelia said over the radio was that she was on the line 157337, which is the two Islands near Howland Island. Expeditions in the past they had found freckle cream and lotion. Which woman in the 1930s would have bought. They think it could have belonged to Amelia because it was found on the coast of Nikumaroo Island and that's where they think she had landed.

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First transatlantic flight

         After the solo flight across the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh, people started wanting a woman to fly across the Atlantic. So the first time Amelia flew was only as a passenger, she got a phone call one day. At first She wasn't going to take the phone call at first because work was so busy and she was thinking it really wasn't that important at all but after being informed by one of her co workers  that it was really important she took it and her life changed. The phone call was  from Captain Riley  asking if she would like to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic, and of course she said yes.

   She had to travel to New York and go through several interviews and meet with project coordinators because that needed to find out if she was going to be good enough to fly. She also meet with George Putnam a publisher and her future husband. He wanted to meet with her because he wanted to publish her book shes going to write about her life and this trip. She got a phone call one day and they said she was selected to be the first woman across the Atlantic. But she could only go as a passenger since its very dangerous to fly solo across the Atlantic.

   They took off from Newfoundland on a plane called friendship on June 27, 1928. The pilot was Wilmer Shultz and the copilot was Louis Gordon and he accompanied Amelia on the transatlantic flight. This trip took exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes . They landed at Bury Point, Wales. Due to weather conditions Wilmer Shultz did all the flying and even though Amelia also agreed with this she said she she " was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes.....maybe someday Ill try it alone" she added.(biography.com)

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