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This research proposal discusses the effect on the motivation of women to go into flying, of the finding of Amelia Earhart's long lost plane. Amelia Earhart has been a source of motivation and inspiration for women in aviation for decades. The research hypothesis is that finding her plane would discourage women from flying as they would be reminded of a tragedy-Earhart's accidental death.

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In this article, the writer looks at the life and aviation achievements of Amelia Earhart. Through her achievements, the writer demonstrates why she had such a significant influence on women's advancement and aviation in general.

From the Paper
"The life and aviation career of Amelia Earhart left a tremendous impact on the world of aviation. While there were other female pilots before Earhart, many of them faster or more decorated, Earhart's popularity with the public helped expand the role of women in aviation more than any female flier of her era. When the Wright Brothers' plane took to the air women were still prohibited the vote and viewed as inferior to men,when it came to what was considered a male occupation like ..."

Tags:George Putnam, Fred Noonan, Neta Snook, Lindbergh, navigation, air racing, barnstorming, ambition, gender, feminism, flight, pilots, publicity, WWI, Roosevelt

From the Paper
" Triumph and Tragedy of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart's life was full of contradictions. It contained great triumphs and ended in great tragedy. Amelia Earhart and her husband, George Putnam, created the image of Amelia Earhart. Her image of the female aviatrix, which gave her a platform for dispersing her views on a woman's place in society, was a triumph for Amelia Earhart and for the feminist movement. The creation, of this famous image, allowed Amelia Earhart to pursue and gain financial backing for a career in aviation. Amelia Earhart's public image, and, her record breaking flights had a synergetic effect on her life. Her life of independence was upheld as an example to women. Amelia Earhart's failed attempt to circumnavigate the globe, which ended her life, was a terrible tragedy. "

Tags:flight

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In this review of Mary S. Lovell's book, "The Sound of Wings", the writer suggests that Lovell is not so much interested in Amelia Earhart's aviation career and accomplishments, but rather in the developing cult of personality in America of the 1920s. The reviewer describes Lovell's treatment of Earhart's relationship with her husband, George Palmer Putman, and his impact on her career. Furthermore, the writer suggests that by concentrating on Earhart's relationship with her husband and his attempts to promote her for commercial reasons, and by not examining her contributions to the development of aviation, Lovell denigrates Earhart's legacy.

From the Paper
"Lovell's work chronicles the evolving implications of Amelia Earhart's husband George Palmer Putnam on her career. Putnam emerges in the text as a pure showman, eventually divorcing his first wife, heir to the Crayola empire, to pursue a more lucrative career exploiting Earhart's supposed technical prowess at an aircraft's controls. In fact, Lovell suggests that even before Earhart became an aviatrix, Lovell had already begun to pen the supposed autobiography of Amelia's first flight, which would propel her to world fame. After gaining fame as a pioneer of women's liberation, Earhart was called to speak to countless audiences, and became a tireless endorser of everything from cigarettes to clothes."

Tags:Amelia Earhart, aviation emancipation, women's rights, Mary S. Lovell, flight

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This paper describes the work and viewpoint of the woman suffragist, Amelia Bloomer, focusing on her famous speech, "Woman's Right to the Ballot." First, the paper discusses who Bloomer was and how she presented her opinions in a rational and organized fashion. Then, the paper shows how Bloomer exemplified the new middle class woman who strove to be heard and represented through the right to vote. Additionally, the paper notes how Bloomer needed to think like a man to get her message across. Bloomer addressed men in her speech, appealing to their sense of logic as a way to convey her message. Next the paper points out that Bloomer was not afraid of letting men know where they have gone wrong. The paper concludes by stating that Amelia Bloomer was a role model for women in her day because she was speaking out for a basic right that women should have been afforded but were not.

From the Paper
"Bloomer was a forward thinker blessed with a husband that supported her activities. She was given a certain amount of freedom that most women did not enjoy and she used to her best advantage. She was Linda Steiner asserts that while Bloomer was writing for The Lily, a women's suffrage publication, she "articulated and dramatized a new kind of middle-class woman, a 'sensible woman . . . active, healthy, sensibly dressed women, in place of the waxen-faced, wasp-like beflowered and befurbelowed caricatures of women'" (Steiner). Bloomer expressed the notion that women could be active in matters outside the home wile still being a wife and mother. The Lily illustrates how Bloomer and others used "language not only to motivate and recruit women but to reinforce gender roles and beliefs as well" (Baker). Bloomer did take the position that women should be allowed to vote, she also believed that women should demonstrate that they are worthy of that right. Steiner points out that while Bloomer praised the women that supported prohibition..."

Tags:women's suffrage, women's rights

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The paper examines the attitudes towards women from the perspective of Sir Philip Sidney's poetry, and shows how women were blamed for the downfall of men. The paper then looks at how Amelia Lanyer addresses the sinning of Adam and Eve and explains how she defends women as more pure and righteous, with Adam also to blame for Eve's sin.

From the Paper
"Sir Philip Sidney's writing differed to Amelia Lanyer's writing by the way of which gender is truly to blame for the downfall of people. By comparing several of Sidney's poems with Lanyer's "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum", the reader can better understand attitudes towards women from the perspective of both men and women of the time. Although neither poet can speak for every male or female, the male view of women was fairly common. Women, unless royalty, did not generally have a voice in the academic or political world. From reading Lanyer's work however, the reader can assume she took on a voice that was probably held or thought of, just not expressed yet, by other women."

Tags:Adam, Eve, sin, love, serpent, lust, attraction

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This paper will compare and contrast these three poems- William Blake's "The Little Black Boy", William Cowper's "The Negro's Complaint" and Amelia Anderson Opie's "The Black Man's Lament." The focus of the paper will be to analyze Blake's poem and create a compare and contrast with the two other poems studied here. By analyzing this we can see the differences in the meditations of the authors about black people in this context.

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The paper asserts that William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" is a broad satire on the Victorian Age that was based on self-centered aspiration. The paper analyzes the two heroines, Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp, who are from opposite ends of the economic spectrum, and highlights how they are both vain and self-serving in their own way. The paper posits that the author is showing how vanity springs from all strata of society since it is inherently human.

From the Paper
"In his novel Vanity Fair it is Thackeray's intention to create a canvass where all the characters are vain. The intention is announced in the subtitle, which reads "A Novel Without a Hero". There is no character in it with heroic qualities to admire, and we search in vain for a reference point of virtue by which to compare the rest. It is not Thackeray's intention to explain why certain people are vain, or to provide a lesson in how to live honestly, or even how to uproot such hypocrisy and vanity from society. We must take the novel as a broad satire on Victorian England and the Utilitarian ethos that was overcoming urban society at the time."

Tags:satire, Victorian, Age, utilitarianism

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In the novel, "Vanity Fair," one of William Makepeace Thackeray's moral purposes is to demonstrate the consequences of human vanity and its counterpart, self-interest. This paper shows how Thackeray explores various forms of human vanity and selfishness, focusing on the character of Amelia Sedley.

From the Paper
"In this context, we see Amelia's foolish vanity in arraying her ass, George, in the persona of a manly idol. Even though his love for her is shallow and prompted by his own vanity, he has condescended to let her love him, to let her imagination array him in noble attributes that he does not possess. She in turn shows excessive pride in George's appearance and achievements, both real and imagined. Amelia's obsessive idolatry is the epitome of vanity. How could she, the virtuous good girl, love any being who is less than the perfect man? A faltering, awkward fellow such as Dobbin could not hope to win the affections of a woman who worships an ideal lover that she has created, and who resides, in her mind."

Tags:victorian, vanitus, william, dobbin

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The paper provides a comparison between Durer's "The Four Apostles" with Janssens van Ceulen's "Arthur Capel, 1st Baron Capel and his Family" and Lanyer's "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" that suggests that themes of women and spirituality in art and literature had many similarities in both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance era. The paper highlights the symbolism contained in these works and how they convey similar ideas about holiness and the treatment of women.

From the Paper
"Carefully painted by renowned artist Albrecht Drurer, The Four Apostles uses vivid colors and a smooth texture to augment this intriguing painting on two panels. Drurer breaks up the apostles into groups of two, with one in the foreground and the other peering at a Bible held by the former. Careful not to portray them as having idle hands, Drurer's apostles pairs are heavily engaged with their Bibles. John and Peter appear to be studying out of their Bible, and Drurer's light and shadow is used to illuminate the Bible almost completely, while Peter is encased in much shadow, suggesting it is the Bible--not the apostolic conduit, that is of most importance in the portrait. In the right panel, light again illuminates the closed Bible, and Mark and Paul, although not locked in a stare, appear to be discussing the material in a studious manner. A user of sumbols, Drurer not only uses light to suggest the importance of the Bible, but also pairs each apostle with his or her key symbol, used to alert readers as to which apostle is which.
"Compared to Drurer's work, which was painted at the end of the Middle Ages, van Ceulen's family portrait, a late renaissance work, uses considerably more light, bathing the family in brightness, which suggests a lighthearted theme. Like Druer's portrait, however, the position of those pictured is quite important."

Tags:symbolism, Middle, Ages, Renaissance