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 vivid 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 souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold the restless day and count it fair." Those were the words of Amelia Earhart in a poem she wrote, entitled "Courage." Amelia Earhart knew a lot about courage. Even when faced with impossible odds, she always had the courage to try and overcome them. She had a never give up attitude that made her so attractive to the public and took the science community by surprise. Without that attitude, she would never have been invited to make her first flight across the Atlantic ocean on June 3rd 1928. Because she had the courage to be one of the only women pilots at the time, she was invited by her future husband, George Putnam, to make the 20 hour 14 minute journey across the Atlantic. Although she was just a passenger on the flight, she was still promoted to celebrity status for being the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane.
Although neither Amelia or her plane were ever recovered, she did not die in vain. She left behind a legacy to all aspiring women, pilots or otherwise. It was a legacy with the message of hope and determination to follow dreams and success will follow. But most of all, her legacy was of courage. A courage that changes a person's life, as it did Amelias. And as she so truly stated in her poem, each time we make a choice, we pay with courage. After such a major setback, she didn't give up, but rather waited almost two years before embarking on her journey for the second time. On June 1st, 1937, she departed this time from Miami Florida on a different route around the world. At exactly midnight, she took off for the last leg of her journey. Twenty hours she made her last radio contact, saying "KHAQQ calling Itasca, we must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low." After several failed transmissions to Amelia, the coast guard determined that she must have landed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean and began rescue search procedures.
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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