“It's a bird it's a plane”(Unknown). What do you think about when you hear those
words? Did you think about an airplane? Chances are you thought of Amelia
Earhart. She was the first female aviator and a hero to most women. At the time of
her life she wasn’t as renowned as she is today. Most men despised her, and
women looked down upon her, but that wouldn’t stop her. She was in love with
flying and one day decided to fly around the world. When the day came she took
off and never returned. On July 2, 1937, the Lockheed aircraft carrying American
aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near
Howland Island in the Pacific (“Amelia Earhart Disappears.” History.com), Or
that’s what we were told. Over the years several conspiracies have come out about
Earhart. One is that when she crashed, The US Government rescued her and
brought her back to America to live out her life under an Alias. The other
conspiracies are that when her plane went down she was captured by the Japanese
and she was a Prisoner for the rest of her life (Bowerman). Let’s take a look at
these theory’s and go more in depth about her disappearance.
Amelia Earhart was a very special woman in the fact that she didn’t care
what anybody thought of her. She was always happy and never let anything get her
down, and oh yeah; She loved to fly and was the first woman to do so. She would
have to go through lots of crazy emotions in her life but she would never let it
bother her. She was ridiculed and criticized by the men in the aviation industry
around her, as well as some housewives who didn’t agree with what she was doing
and thought she just acted like a stereotypical man.
Amelia was born a Kansas girl on July 24, 1897. Growing up she would
define traditional gender roles such as playing Basketball, and as well as enrolling
in a Auto repair course and briefly attended college. During WW1 she served as a
Red Cross nurse aid in Toronto Canada. This is where she would begin her time
learning and watching pilots train and fly at a local airport in Toronto. In December
of 1920 she took her first airplane ride in California with a famed WW1 pilot
Frank Hawks and was forever hooked (“ Amelia Earhart” History Channel staff, 1)
The way that Earhart jumped into flight was unprecedented back in the day.
She just “grabbled the bull by the horns” (“Grab the bull by the horns”.) and
jumped right into aviation. This was very, very unique for women at the time. In
the United States in the 1920s, only about 15 percent of white and 30 percent of
black married women with wage-earning husbands held paying jobs(Benner,1).
Most Americans believed that women should not work outside the home if their
husbands held jobs. As a result of this attitude, wives seldom worked at outside
jobs. However, some married women in desperate need took jobs in textile mills
(“A New Woman Emerges” Louise Benner, 1). The Fact that Amelia would do
what she wanted no matter what anybody says is a strong trait that cant be taught
but something you have to be born with.(1) She was very compassionate about
what she did, as well as enthusiastic and determined that nobody was goanna stop
her in her journey to happiness, as well as her unknowing journey to Greatness
making her a timeless figure.(1)
Unfortunately with her interior trait of always being optimistic and really
lack of self-confidence, she had something to prove, and it would end up taking her
life. In 1937 Amelia and navigator Fred Noonan would take off in a twin engine
Lockheed 10, and would fly around the world and become the first people to do so.
The pair reached Lae, New Guinea, on June 29. They had flown 22,00 miles and
only had 7000 left. Unfortunately on July 2 Earhart and Noonan where seen for the
last time at a refueling stop. They lost radio contact with the coastguard and
haven’t been herd from ever since.(“Amelia Earhart”,1)
In the years following her disappearance many artifacts of hers has been
found but they still haven’t found the body. Earhart was next extraordinary woman
in because of her determination and drive to be the best that she could be and the
perseverance to not listen to all the doubt and her ability to overlook the bad and
just make herself happy is really amazing. She just did what she wanted to do and
in the end she had to have died happy and full of achievement.
There are a couple of conspiracies regarding the disappearance of a Amelia
Earhart. The ones that make the most sense are quite similar but very different. The
first conspiracy that we are gonna talk about is the one that states Amelia was
flying over some small island in Japan and ran out of gas and crash landed in
Japan. (Bowerman) The theory States that she was flying over with her navigator
Frank, and she ran out of fuel. (1) This of course would lead to the landing of her
airplane in the islands in Japan. She would survive on this island for up to 1 week
before being captured by the Japanese army. (1) She was then taken to the big
island of Japan and held for questioning as the Japanese thought that she was a spy.
(1) They of course found out who she really was and let her go and the conspiracy
talks about how she just fell in love with Japan and never left.(1) Over the years
there have been rumors of her plane being sited but there has never been any hard
evidence.(1)
photo surfaced on a woman who had a crazy resemblance to Amelia Earhart
(Kaitln Kanzler). The photo was a women who lived in New Jersey as a bankroller,
but she would never take an interview or reveal her name.(2) So as the years went
on and this women died the conspiracy came out that the United States
Government had rescued Amelia Earhart and sent back into society under a Alias
(2). This theory has never been proved or disproved but it is still a shocking seen
that there could be a women with that much resemblance to Amelia.
A bonus conspiracy theory is one that I derived. The reason I chose Amelia
Earhart is because I am supposed to be related to the great aviator. When i was a
kid my great grandpa would tell me stories about her and it would always fascinate
me. He even told me that he had some pages of her diary that are supposed to be
super rare. When I started writing this paper I gave him a visit and this is what i
found. In her later years of her life she didn’t like the way people were treating her.
(Amelia Earhart) She described herself as being outcast and full of shame(3) Its
very sad to think that someone that means so much to the history of this Nation
was treated like this but it happens. Any way she sated that she was feeling very
lonely and depressed and that she didn’t know the best way to handle such a
thing(3). So to me this opens some questions about her so called disappearance. I
think that in fact this could've been a suicide mission, and she purposely never
came back.
Amelia Earhart was an amazing person who had to struggle with alot of things in
her life. From Her depression to her best days she was always a fun character to be
around and was full of life. She will always be remembered for the greatness and
the things that she did amazing and not the things that she did horrible. She did go
missing in person but will never go missing in our hearts. As far as the The theories
go I believe she was in New Jersey and she lived out a happy life, with no one
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