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Amelia Earhart (Carlos Palmeiro and Lucía Pelado
Amelia Earhart
Carlos Palmeiro and Lucía Pelado
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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
him. Then I also had problems in my early days as an aviator, since many people, especially my instructor Neta Snook, did not give me much credibility as a pilot.
Despite all this, I managed to obtain different achievements. The first was the one I got when I was 30 years old, which was being the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. Then in 1934 I made the first successful flight between North America and Hawaii. Also, promote aviation among women and organize air races for women throughout the country and founded the organization Las ninety-nine together with other pilots.
One of the last letters that I sent was to my friend George before disappearing in my attempt at global circumnavigation, I said this: “Please know that I am aware of the dangers, I want to do it because I want to. Women should try to do things like men have done. When they fail their attempts they must be a challenge to others”.
By this I mean that you must assume the risks of your actions when you do them with pleasure and that on many occasions, being women, you will have to expose yourself more than men to show that you are capable of fulfilling your wishes.
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