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ZRENJANIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL
ZRENJANIN
GRADUATION PAPER
SUBJECT:ENGLISH
THEME: AMELIA EARHART
TEACHER-MENTOR STUDENT
Senka Stojakovic Ana Vujanov IV1
April,2011
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Introduction:
I am very fascinated with women who try to do something new and
unusual. In her whole life Amelia Earhart was trying to achieve goals
that were reserved only for men. I think she was a great woman who
was a female pioneer in aviation. In my Graduation Paper,I would like
to present you Amelias life from her childhood till her mysterious
disappearance.
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Contents:
Introduction.. 2
Childhood Story of Amelia Earhart5
Amelia's first "flight"6
Education.6
Amelia and planes.8
First air shows. .9
The first woman to fly the Atlantic.9
Fashion..10
Celebrity image12
George P. Putnam -Amelia's Husband13
First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.14
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First person to fly solo between Hawaii and California .15
Amelia Earhart as an Aviator....16
Final Flight..16
Theories18
Movies and television .19
Fun Facts about Amelia Earhart..20
Conclusion..22
Reference 23
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Childhood Story of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Kansas. She was a daughter
of Edwin and Amy Earhart. She spent her childhood with her
grandmother and grandfather, because her father, although a well-educated man, was in great debts. There, in Atchison, she enjoyed in a
family atmosphere of the small place. Amelia learned to read at the age
of five. She was very intelligent and curious. But her grandmother was
timid, and didnt approve some of Amelia's tomboy tendencies, like
pony-riding, tree-climbing, snow-sledding, and hunting activities. Her
parents were only 50 miles away, and she summered with them, so she
remained close to them during these years.
Amelia attended a private college preparatory school, where, although
she loved to read, she sometimes got into trouble as a result of her
independent nature. Her mother and younger sister, Muriel, often
came to Atchison to visit her, but she didnt see her father very often
during these years. The Earhart family moved to Des Moines, Iowa,
when Amelia was in the seventh grade.
Her childhood activities suggested she would lead an active adulthood.
While the social standards of the time held that young girls should
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behave in a genteel and ladylike fashion, young Amelia was interested
in adventure. She recalled being fascinated by mechanical things, and
she once designed a trap to catch stray chickens. As the daughter of a
railroad employee, she traveled often and thus "discovered thefascination of new people and new places." She also realized early that
boys were under fewer constraints than girls and questioned why. She
liked "all kinds of sports and games" and was willing to try even those
games adults considered only for boys.
Amelia's first "flight"
In one of the more dramatic moments of Earhart's childhood, she, her
sister, and a neighbor boy built a roller coaster at the family's home in
Kansas City. The track began at the top of a tool-shed, about eight feet
off the ground.
The children, with a little help from their Uncle Carl Otis, constructed
the track from boards and greased it with lard. Amelia made the trial
run in a car made from an empty wooden crate.
Education
From the first grade, she attended the College Preparatory School in
Atchison. It was a tiny place, with only about 30 students, housed in a
building that used to be a stable. Amelia was bright, but her
independent spirit and lack of interest in recitation did not endear her
to the teachers. In high school, cheerleading was not enough for her,
she wanted to play on the basketball team.
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Her father Edwin, was well-educated, but tended to the impractical;
money just slipped through his fingers. His in-laws, the Otises, helped
him out a lot (including taking care of Amelia), but Edwin's
extravagance remained a problem. In 1908, he got a new job, with theRock Island railroad, which required him to move to Des Moines. Now,
the arrangement with the Atchison grandparents was no longer
feasible, so Amelia joined them in Iowa, and saw her first airplane, at
the 1908 Iowa State Fair. For a few years, Edwin did well, moving into a
newer, larger houses almost every year, as his income grew. But his
spendthrift nature won out, and he kept living beyond his means, and
increasingly turning to alcohol. He moved out for a time, but Amy(Amelia's mother) implored him to return.
The death of Amelia's grandparents, the Otises, was the final blow. The
Otises were quite wealthy, with an estate worth over $170,000 (a huge
sum in those days). While the will sought to provide for the
grandchildren, it excluded Edwin and Amy. A lengthy, messy struggle
ensued. During this time, Edwin had lost his job, and was forced toaccept a menial position in St. Paul, which required another family
move, to Minnesota.
In the 1913-14 school year, at St. Paul Central High School, where
Amelia was more in control of her own destiny, she did very well,
keeping a grade point average in the high eighties, with a curriculum
including Latin, German, and Physics.
After graduating from Hyde Park High School in 1915, Earhart attended
Ogontz, a girl's finishing school in the suburbs of Philadelphia. In her
three semesters there, Amelia played field hockey, studied Shakespeare
& Latin, and attended concerts of the Philadelphia Symphony. She left
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in the middle of her second year to work as a nurse's aide in a military
hospital in Canada during WWI, attended college, and later became a
social worker at Denison House, a settlement house in Boston.
Amelia and planes
When 10-year-old Amelia Mary Earhart saw her first plane at a state
fair, she was not impressed. "It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and
looked not at all interesting," she said. It wasn't until Earhart attended a
stunt-flying exhibition, almost a decade later, that she became seriouslyinterested in aviation. A pilot spotted Earhart and her friend, who were
watching from an isolated clearing, and dove at them. "I am sure he
said to himself, 'Watch me make them scamper,'" she said. Earhart,
who felt a mixture of fear and pleasure, stood her ground. As the plane
swooped by, something inside her awakened. "I did not understand it
at the time," she said, "but I believe that little red airplane said
something to me as it swished by."
On December 28, 1920, pilot Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would
forever change her life. "By the time I had got two or three hundred
feet off the ground," she said, "I knew I had to fly."
Learning to fly in California, she took up aviation as a hobby, taking odd
jobs to pay for her flying lessons. In 1922, with the financial help of her
sister, Muriel, and her mother, Amy Otis Earhart, she purchased herfirst airplane, a Kinner Airster.
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First air shows
Earhart took her first flying lesson on January 3, 1921, and in six months
managed to save enough money to buy her first plane. The second-hand Kinner Airster was a two-seater biplane painted bright yellow.
Earhart named the plane "Canary," and used it to set her first women's
record by rising to an altitude of 14,000 feet.
"The fact that my roadster was a cheerful canary color may have caused
some of the excitement. It had been modest enough in California, but
was a little outspoken for Boston, I found.
Following her parent's divorce, Amelia moved back east where she was
employed as a social worker in Denison House, in Boston,
Massachusetts. It was there she was selected to be the first female
passenger on a transatlantic flight, in 1928, by her future husband, the
publisher, George Palmer Putnam.
The first woman to fly the Atlantic
One afternoon in April 1928, a phone call came for Earhart at work.
"I'm too busy to answer just now," she said.
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After hearing that it was important, Earhart relented though at first she
thought it was a prank. It wasn't until the caller supplied excellent
references that she realized the man was serious.
"How would you like to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic?" he
asked, to which Earhart promptly replied, "Yes!"
After an interview in New York with the project coordinators, including
book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam, she was asked to join
pilot Wilmer "Bill" Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis E. "Slim" Gordon.
The team left Trepassey harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F7 named
Friendship on June 17, 1928, and arrived at Burry Port, Wales,approximately 21 hours later.
Their landmark flight made headlines worldwide, because three women
had died within the year trying to be that first woman. When the crew
returned to the United States they were greeted with a ticker-tape
parade in New York and a reception held by President Calvin Coolidge
at the White House.From then on, Earhart's life revolved around flying.She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby, later nicknamed
the "Powder Puff Derby" by Will Rogers.
Fashion
After a series of record-making flights, she became the first woman tomake a solo transatlantic flight in 1932. That same year, Amelia
developed flying clothes for the Ninety-Nines. Her first creation was a
flying suit with loose trousers, a zipper top and big pockets. Vogue
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advertised it with a two-page photo spread. Then, she began designing
her own line of clothes "for the woman who lives actively."
She dressed according to the occasion whether it was flying or an
elegant affair. She was most conscious of the image she projected.
Several New York garment manufacturers made an exclusive Amelia
Earhart line of clothes which were marketed in 30 cities, with one
exclusive store in each city, such as Macy's in New York and Marshall
Field's in Chicago.
The celebrity endorsements helped Earhart to finance her flying.
Accepting a position as associate editor at Cosmopolitan magazine, sheturned this forum into an opportunity to campaign for greater public
acceptance of aviation, especially focusing on the role of women
entering the field. In 1929, Earhart was among the first aviators to
promote commercial air travel through the development of a passenger
airline service.
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Celebrity image
Trading on her physical resemblance to Lindbergh, whom the press had
dubbed "Lucky Lindy," some newspapers and magazines began
referring to Earhart as "Lady Lindy." The United Press was more
grandiloquent; to them, Earhart was the reigning "Queen of the Air."
Immediately after her return to the United States, she undertook an
exhausting lecture tour (19281929). Meanwhile, Putnam had
undertaken to heavily promote her in a campaign including publishing a
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book she authored, a series of new lecture tours and using pictures of
her in mass market endorsements for products including luggage, Lucky
Strike cigarettes (this caused image problems for her, with McCall's
magazine retracting an offer) and women's clothing and sportswear.The money that she made with "Lucky Strike" had been earmarked for
a $1,500 donation to Commander Richard Byrd's imminent South Pole
expedition.
Rather than simply endorsing the products, Earhart actively became
involved in the promotions, especially in women's fashions. For a
number of years she had sewn her own clothes, but the "active living"
lines that were sold in 50 stores such as Macy's in metropolitan areas
were an expression of a new Earhart image. Her concept of simple,
natural lines matched with wrinkle-proof, washable materials was the
embodiment of a sleek, purposeful but feminine "A.E." ( the familiar
name she went by with family and friends). The luggage line that she
promoted (marketed as Modernaire Earhart Luggage) also bore her
unmistakable stamp. She ensured that the luggage met the demands ofair travel; it is still being produced today. A wide range of promotional
items would appear bearing the Earhart "image" and likewise, modern
equivalents are still being marketed to this day. The marketing
campaign by G.P. Putnam was successful in establishing the Earhart
mystique in the public psyche.
George P. Putnam - Amelia's Husband
As fate would have it, her life also began to include George Putnam.
The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic
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crossing and were married on February 7, 1931 but she continued her
aviation career under her maiden name. Intenting on retaining her
independence, she referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with
"dual control."
Amelia and George formed a successful partnership. George organized
Amelia's flights and public appearances, and arranged for her to
endorse a line of flight luggage and sports clothes.
Together they worked on secret plans for Earhart to become the first
woman and the second person to solo the Atlantic.
George had already published several writings by Charles Lindbergh,
and he saw Amelia's flight as a bestselling story for his publishing
house. With pilot Wilmer Stultz and mechanic Lou Gordon, Amelia flew
from Newfoundland to Wales aboard the trimotor planeFriendship .
Amelia's daring and courage were acclaimed around the world. Upon
the flight's completion, Amelia wrote the book 20 Hours - 40 Minutes.
George also published two of her books, The Fun of It , andLast Flight .
First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
On May 20, 1932, five years to the day after Lindbergh, she took off
from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Paris. Strong north winds, icy
conditions and mechanical problems plagued the flight and forced her
to land in a pasture near Londonderry, Ireland. "After scaring most of
the cows in the neighborhood," she said, "I pulled up in a farmer's back
yard." As word of her flight spread, the media surrounded her, both
overseas and in the United States. President Herbert Hoover presented
Earhart with a gold medal from the National Geographic Society.
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Congress awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross-the first ever
given to a woman. At the ceremony, Vice President Charles Curtis
praised her courage, saying she displayed "heroic courage and skill as a
navigator at the risk of her life." Earhart felt the flight proved that menand women were equal in "jobs requiring intelligence, coordination,
speed, coolness and willpower."
First person to fly solo between Honolulu, Hawaii and
Oakland, CaliforniaIn the years that followed, Earhart continued to break records. She set
an altitude record for autogyros of 18,415 feet that stood for years. On
January 11, 1935, she became the first person to fly solo across the
Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland, California. Chilled during the 2,408-
mile flight, she unpacked a thermos of hot chocolate. "Indeed," she
said, "that was the most interesting cup of chocolate I have ever had,
sitting up eight thousand feet over the middle of the Pacific Ocean,quite alone." Later that year she was the first to solo from Mexico City
to Newark. A large crowd "overflowed the field," and rushed Earhart's
plane. "I was rescued from my plane by husky policemen," she said,
"one of whom in the ensuing melee took possession of my right arm
and another of my left leg." The officers headed for a police car, but
chose different routes. "The arm-holder started to go one way, while he
who clasped my leg set out in the opposite direction. The result
provided the victim with a fleeting taste of the tortures of the rack. But,
at that," she said good-naturedly, "It was fine to be home again."
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Amelia Earhart as an Aviator
Amelia's flying accomplishments proved influential to American pilots
and pilots of the world alike. She was a creative impulse within the
Ninety-Nines organization, and a stimulus for womankind to replaceoutdated social norms. She encouraged women to hold fast to their
beliefs, follow their hearts, and always dare to dream.
"The more women fly, the more who become pilots, the quicker we will
be recognized as an important factor in aviation," said Amelia. Her
parting words to Louise Thaden, a fellow Ninety-Nine were, "If I should
bop off, it'll be doing the thing that I've always most wanted to do."
By becoming the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane,
Amelia gained immediate fame. She is still remembered as the
outstanding female pilot of her time. She did not, however, seek to set
herself apart from other female pilots.
Final Flight
In 1937, as Earhart neared her 40th birthday, she was ready for a
monumental, and final, challenge. She wanted to be the first woman to
fly around the world. Despite a very dangerous attempt in March that
severely damaged her plane, a determined Earhart had the twin engine
Lockheed Electra rebuilt. "I have a feeling that there is just about one
more good flight left in my system, and I hope this trip is it," she said.
On June 1st, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed fromMiami and began the 29,000-mile journey. By June 29, when they
landed in Lae, New Guinea, all but 7,000 miles had been completed. In
that time often inaccurate maps had made navigation difficult for
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Noonan, and their next hop to Howland Island was, by far, the most
challenging.
At 10am local time, zero Greenwich time on July 2, the pair took off.
Despite favorable weather reports, they flew into overcast skies and
intermittent rain showers. This made Noonan's premier method of
tracking, celestial navigation, difficult. As dawn neared, Earhart called
the ITASCA, reporting "cloudy, weather cloudy." In later transmissions
earhart asked the ITASCA to take bearings on her. The ITASCA sent her
a steady stream of transmissions but she could not hear them. Her
radio transmissions, irregular through most of the flight, were faint or
interrupted with static. At 7:42 A.M. the Itasca picked up the message,
"We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been
unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet." The ship
tried to reply, but the plane seemed not to hear. At 8:45 Earhart
reported, "We are running north and south." Nothing further was heard
from Earhart.
A rescue attempt commenced immediately and became the most
extensive air and sea search in naval history thus far. On July 19, after
spending $4 million and scouring 250,000 square miles of ocean, the
United States government reluctantly called off the operation.
Across the United States there are streets, schools, and airports named
after her. Her birthplace, Atchison, Kansas, has been turned into a vi to
her memory. Amelia Earhart awards and scholarships are given outevery year.
In 1938, a lighthouse was constructed on Howland Island in her
memory.
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Theories
Today, though many theories exist, there is no proof of her fate. There
is no doubt, however, that the world will always remember Amelia
Earhart for her courage, vision, and groundbreaking achievements,
both in aviation and for women. In a letter to her husband, written incase a dangerous flight proved to be her last, this brave spirit was
evident.
"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards," she said. "I want to do
it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have
tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."
Amelia Earhart endures in the American consciousness as one of theworld's most celebrated aviators. Amelia remains a symbol of the
power and perseverance of American women, and the adventurous
spirit so essential to the American persona.
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Movies and television
- Rosalind Russel film Flight for Freedom which was made in 1943was fictionalized treatment of Earharts life, but with a lot of
Hollywood world War II propaganda.- Film named Amelia Earhart was made in 1976,starring Susan Clark
and John Forsythe.
- Steven Spielberg film Close Encounters of the Third Kind showsAmelia Earhart walking out of the Mothership, with hundred
other alien abduction survivors.
- The Price of Courage (1993) from American Experience is adocumentary of Amelia Earhart.
- The 2004 film The Aviator in which Jane Lynch was cast as AmeliaEarhart. But the scenes where she is on, were cut.
- In the 2009 film Amelia an actress Hilary Swank was in the mainrole of Amelia. She was, also, in a co-executive producer of the
film.
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Fun Facts about Amelia Earhart:
- Amelia was named Amelia Mary Earhart after her two grandmothers,Amelia Harres Otis and Mary Wells Earhart - a family tradition.
- Amelia received the nickname "Meelie" from her younger sister Muriel,because as a young child, Muriel couldn't pronounce Amelia's name
correctly.
- Amelia was initially engaged to be married to a New Englander namedSam Chapman, whom she met while visiting her parents in Los Angeles.
- Shortly after her engagement to Sam Chapman ended, Amelia composedthe poem Courage.
- Amelia was the first female, and one of only a few to date, to receive theAir Force Distinguished Flying Cross
- Amelia's childhood pet, a large black dog, was named James Ferocious,because of his uneven temperament with strangers.
- Amelia and Muriel had two imaginary playmates, Laura and Ringa, withwhom they shared great adventures.
- Two of Amelia's favorite Atchison playmates were her cousins Lucy andKathryn Challis. Amelia and Muriel called them Toot and Katch.
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- This is Amelia Earhart home, Atchinson, KansasIt is neo-classical woodenVictorian architecture.
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Conclusion
In my opinion I have managed to present you all the achievements
Amelia has fought for. At her time, she was probably the most beloved
woman in America. Amelia Earhart was a great, adventurous woman
who was full of life. She was interested in many things unlike the other
women in her society. Today, in the world, we have the women who
fight for similar rights. Women like Eleanor Roosevelt, Laura Bush, and
even Oprah Winfrey are another example of an influential role model
for women today. The world certainly lost something with the death ofAmelia Earhart, but she left behind a road for women to follow her
footsteps.
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