Part one of term paper
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 at her grandparents' home in Atchison, Kansas. It was not till 1908 that the girls moved to Des Moines to be with their parents, Amelia was 10 years old when she saw her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair. It would be more than a decade before Amelia's interest in aviation would be awaken. Am ...

Part two of term paper
... as a nurses aid in Toronto and served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at a military hospital until the Armistice in November 1918. In the fall of 1919 Amelia enrolled as a pre-med student at Columbia University. In 1920 she decided to join her mother and father in California. They had recently reunited and were encouraging the sisters to join them. Several months after her arrival in California Amelia and her father went to an "aerial meet" at Daugherty Field in Long Beach. She had bec ...