Through The Looking Glass Of Amelia Earhart

Through the Looking Glass of Amelia Earhart “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things: Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold the resistless day, and count it fair” (“Poem Hunter”). Those are the words known from Amelia Earhart from a poem she wrote titled, “Courage.” Amelia Earhart knew a tremendous amount about courage even when she was faced with the impossible odds, she would always have the courage to try and
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it” (“Brainy Quotes”). During World War l, she served as a Nurse’s Aid and she soon began to watch pilots in the local airfield. She wanted to do more. After the war, she returned to the United States and enrolled at the college of Columbia University to be a pre-med student. Earhart would later explain that she changed her mind about being a doctor. Then, Earhart took her first plane ride and was forever hooked. She started taking pilot lessons with a female flight instructor named Anita Snook. Earhart would soon accumulate a total of 500 hours of solo flying lessons. This would be important for a pilot to have, because a pilot had to be good at manual control while adapting at navigation and securing a safe flying route. In order to help pay for flying lessons, Earhart took a job as a filing clerk at a telephone company and at a photography studio. Once she gathered up enough money, she purchased her own plane. She gave her plane the nickname of, “The Canary”. In December 1921, Earhart passed her flight test and would soon participate in her first flight exhibition in California
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others” (“Brainy Quotes”). One accomplishment was that Earhart used her first plane, “The Canary” to set her first flying record. Her first flying record was in 1922, when she flew solo above 14,000 feet which set a world record for female pilots and in 1923 she was the 16th woman that was issued her pilot’s license. Earhart wanted to promote aviation in women. In 1929, she set out to organize a cross-country air race for women pilots and also formed the group, “The Ninety-Nines” which is an organization for the female pilots, she was the first president of that group and it still exists to this day and it got its name from the ninety-nine female applicants. She also wrote her own book called, “20 hours, 40 minutes”. The book was about her experiences as a passenger in the Friendship and then she continued to wrote two more books within her life and wrote magazine articles as well as newspaper columns (“Achievements”). When someone sees a picture of Amelia Earhart, they would see that she would sport her famous bomber leather jacket and men’s pants, she was encouraged to do a fashion line. According to the article by