Until the day her plane disappeared over the South Pacific in 1937, Amelia Earhart claimed one primary goal in her life, and that was the advancement of the achievements of women. Her final journey, a flight around the world which she almost completed, would have been a first for either a man or a woman, and served as a clear example of how far Amelia Earhart was willing to go to prove the ability of women to be airplane pilots...or whatever else they wanted to be.Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897, and grew up throughout the Midwest. She served as a nurses aide in a Canadian military hospital during World War I, and after the war, she