Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas during 1897. As a child, Earhart was very known to be very adventurous and independent. She spent most of her childhood with her grandparents due to her fathers job requiring them to move frequently. As she grew older she discovered her love for aviation. In 1928, publisher George Putnam wanted to expand on the success of Charles Lindbergh’s first nonstop flight from New York to Paris. That’s when he found Amelia Earhart and she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by the plane known as the “Friendship”. While she made it across, she succeeded as a passenger. She felt like luggage, and wanted to be the one in control. While she was given strong opposition by men, she set off to accomplish her goal. She became the first woman to fly solo and nonstop over the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. This was a huge accomplishment, but being the woman she was who continuously pushed societal expectations by setting records in the aviation field which men at the time dominated, she still wanted to do more. She took to the sky for her next great mission to fly all around the world. On July 2nd while trying to accomplish this mission, she and her navigator went missing near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. Still to this day, the location of her and her plane remain unknown. Amelia Earhart left a huge impact on the world, spreading the message that women can do anything men can do even if it’s as big as flying a plane.