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
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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
Jane Addams was born September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. She was the eighth child of John Huy Addams, who was a successful miller, banker, and landowner. She also grow up wealthy. She went to Rockford Female Seminary for her education. Jane Addams was known as a social worker.
Annie Jean Easley was born April 23, 1933 to Mary Melvina Hoover and Samuel Bird Easley, in Birmingham Alabama. She was raised, along with her older brother, by a single mom. Annie attended schools in Birmingham and graduated high school valedictorian of her class. Throughout high school Annie wanted to be a nurse because she thought that the only careers that were open to African American women at the time were nursing and teaching and she definitely did not want to teach so she settled on being a nurse but as she studied in high school she began thinking about becoming a pharmacist.
Henrietta Johnson was born in 1670 in Dublin, Ireland to a family of French Huguenots. She and her family escaped France to England to avoid being persecuted. Johnson married Robert Dering and moved to Ireland. Later gave birth to two girls.
Amilia’s adventure Amilia Earheart was from Kansas. She was the first child of three. As she grew up her dad had a drinking problem so Amilia and her family moved to Chicago. Then in 1917 she went to visit her sister in Canada and came across injured soldiers. So Amilia went back to school to become a nurse.
Sandra Day O’Connor was born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. She grew up in her family’s ranch, Lazy B, in Arizona, where she became adept at riding and assisted with ranch duties. Growing up, O’Connor displayed a high level of intelligence. Her parents wanted her to have a love for education, but schooling options near the ranch were limited. Therefore, her parents had to send her to live with her grandmother in El Paso, TX.
No, she said when she was able to speak, there had not been any mistake” (Waller 103). On May 12, 1932, the search for Charles A. Lindbergh
She was born in 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland and revived quite a nice education. She was enrolled at Radcliffe college, and Johns Hopkins University. She is quite an accomplished author, and has even written for the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is a woman in the middle upper class, if not upper class due to her education and her writing skills. She seems to have a very stable emotional state to be able to have worked for such important
She had to care for her mother and in the process of that she witnessed her violent fits. Her mother end up dying when; she was only eleven years old in 1848. Amelia was estranged from at least one of her brothers at age 24 after her father passed away. She begins training as a nurse after she married her first husband George Thomas in 1861. She later found out about “baby farming”; nurses adopted
The extraordinary manner in which Elizabeth lived an ordinary life flowed from the centrality of the She was born in New York on August 28, 1774. Her father, Dr. Richard Bayley was a physician, professor of medicine,
Dorothea Dix played a huge role in acquiring equal rights for the mentally ill in the 1800s. In this time, the mentally ill had little to no rights. There wasn’t care and support available to them, and instead they were thrown in prisons. Dorothea Dix was born on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. She was the oldest of three children, and raised her younger siblings.
The Liberation of Australian Women in World War Two World War Two (WWII), the war between the Allies and the Axis, is known as ‘the deadliest conflict in history’ because of the holocaust, the Japanese invasions and bombings, and the millions of prisoners of war. However, amidst all this destruction, WWII also brought about a new and better era for Australian women; an era of military, home and employment freedom. The male absence in the home during the war dramatically increased the female participation in traditional male roles. As a consequence, WWII was instrumental for the liberation of Australian women in the workforce, family life and agriculture as it empowered women, giving them a newfound freedom as well as a sense of achievement.
Jane Addams life as a child was not easy, she had a congenital spinal defect which led to her never being physically strong and her father who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War always showed that his thoughts of women were that they were weak, and especially her with her condition. But besides that she lived a very privileged life since her father had many famous friends like the president Abraham Lincoln. Jane was determined to get a good education which she ended up getting. She went to Rockford sanitary for women which is now called Rockford University and she also studied to be a doctor but had to quit because she was hospitalised too many times. Being sick affected her life very much so when she got older she remedied her spinal defect with surgery.
Katrina Kim Ms. Collins American Literature (Period 3) 9 March 2015 Maya Angelou's Bibliography Introduction Hip-hop artists such as Nicki Minaj and Kanye West’s musics were influenced by Maya Angelou’s poetries. Maya Angelou was an influential American author, dancer, poet, singer and also an actress. Her works explored the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression. She was born in Louis, Missouri in 1928.
Luna Leopold was a leading hydrologist and geomorphologist in the United States. Luna was born in 1915 to his father Aldo Leopold and died in 2006. Like his father he shared the idea that humans should live in harmony with the land and observing the nature. Luna graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1936 as a civil engineer and joined the U.S. Soil Conservation Service specializing in hydrology. In World War II he served in the Army Corps of Engineers weather service and earned a master's degree in meteorology and physics from the University of California Los Angeles in 1944.
Some people believe Amelia Earhart didn’t die because she made a perfect landing allowing her to land on a nearby island. While others believe Amelia was a secret agent working the U.S government which points to her close relationship with the Roosevelts. People suggest that the plane crashed after she intentionally deviated from her course to spy on Japanese-occupied islands in the Pacific. They also believe that Earhart and Noonan could have landed on one of the islands and were taken as prisoner. Another theory holds that Earhart returned safely to the United States and changed her name.