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Amelia Earhart: A Brief Biography

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Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas to Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart. Amelia’s childhood was perfect until her father became an alcoholic in 1914, Amelia’s mother split with her husband and took her children with her, due to this Amelia didn’t have a relationship with her father; along the way they told her that she wouldn’t be able to accomplish anything because she was a woman. Amelia went to ten different high schools but graduated from Hyde Park high school in 1916, due to her father’s addiction to alcohol, Amelia never touch alcohol in her lifetime.-Neil Morris
Amelia wasn’t very lady-like when she was little; she was very interested about women who had the same jobs as males; she participated in world war by volunteering as a nurse …show more content…

Amelia Earhart is known as the woman who plane mysteriously disappeared along with her; there have been many theories of her disappearance, many say she and her assistant drowned in the pacific due to engine frailer, or that they landed on an island and starved to death, many believe that she was a spy for the government and was captured by the Japanese; it is said that her final flight was star-crossed from the start because they didn’t take safety precautions, she had a bad navigator and her husband was rushing her ; Amelia felt like she accomplished many achievements in life, and felt satisfied with herself.-Philip

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