Mae West and Amelia Earhart Roaring 20’s

The Roaring 20s Mae West Mae West stood as an idol to many an(prenominal) female and male persons during the 1910-1960s. West once said, Love isnt an emotion or an instinctits an art. This quote shines a perfect light on her profession and practically summarizes her beliefs. Mae West started out in New York as a vaudeville performer and eventually moved her talents to the big screen in Hollywood. The Roaring 20s couldnt have been a better time for West to express herself as she was non bound or expected to be any specific female image.She wrote several plays, staring herself, containing mostly sexual themes. Most of her works required quite a bit of censoring in set up to be acceptable to the public. West, taking pride in her dancing and teasing, became wildly popular and respected as an individual woman. Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart took a plane ride in 1920 that would determine her path and change her life, forever. Ten minutes in a plane and after landing Earhart knew she h ad to learn to fly. Taking jobs as they came, Amelia gained enough currency to buy her way through safety valve school.After just two years, Earhart set records for female pilots, flying at altitude of 14,000 feet. Modeling a short haircut and a leather bomber jacket, Earhart bought a bright yellow(a) biplane naming it, the canary. In 1928, she was the first woman on a transatlantic flight. Amelias love for escapade and desire to stand out as an individual drove her to the first female solo flight across the Atlantic. Still determined, she planned to go all around the world above the equator. In 1937, because of difficulties on the plane, Amelia Earhart disappeared, lost forever to the thing she loved most, flying.