Amelia Earhart Carlos Palmeiro and Lucía Pelado I am Amelia Earhart, I was born in Kansas, United States on July 24th 1898 and disappeared somewhere in the Pacific Ocean on July 2nd 1937. I was a famous aviator for my flight marks, such as being the first woman in crossing the Atlantic Ocean or the first traveling from North America to Hawaii successfully. I also attempted the first air travel around the world over the equator. My birth and the origin of modern aviation coincided in time. Aviation received a great boost at the beginning of the 20th century due to the Great War, in which planes began to be used with military purposes on the part of both sides. At the end of this conflict, there were great technological advances related to it and flights of great relevance such as the first transatlantic flight or the first air circumnavigation would be made. In these same years, movements in defense of women's rights began to emerge, demanding more rights and equality. Specially the reclamation of universal suffrage, which required all women to vote like men, which in the United States would be achieved in 1920, when I was 22 years old. Throughout my life I have had a few difficulties. When I was a child, my family suffered several misfortunes: my grandmother died, my father fell into alcoholism and he was fired from his job. This would cause that, together with my mother and my sister, I went to live in another city without
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