Essay On Helen Keller

The begin of the books starts to talk about famous people that most people would know about based on history. People like Helen Keller and Woodrow Wilson were just used as a image of " heroification,"to overall show that anybody can do what they want through sheer will what can be overcame. However many textbooks overlook the fact that they had a bigger impact much more to their community and the world. The reason most textbooks do this is because they did things that may come off as not being the hero that everyone can relate to so they cut out the other parts of their lives that some people look down upon. For example Helen Keller was a huge part of the women's suffrage movement, and she was also a radical socialist which some people don't...show more content...

Loewen, a Harvard University Ph.D. in sociology, has taught at the predominantly black Tougaloo College in Mississippi before spending twenty years at the University of Vermont, and currently lives in Washington, DC, continuing his research into how people assimilate the past. Early in the book Loewen reveals how, in Vermont, he enjoys asking first–year students in his race–relations classes about what they retain from high school American history courses. For the most part, they are skeptical about the cultural heroes foist upon them and have lost interest in the entire discipline of history, but hunger for useable role models."Loewen states the main cause for students' lack of awareness is textbooks. Written to meet strict requirements of page length, design, and content, it has become practically impossible to write a history textbook that is interesting and acceptable to a national audience. Loewen proves that between authors, publishers, school boards, approval boards, and undereducated /overworked teachers, American textbooks have become a parade of uncontroversial, boring bites of information to be memorized and then quickly

"All though the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it" – Helen Keller. Although Helen Keller was deaf and blind, that didn't stop her from doing what she was meant to do. She bans the fact that she ever went deaf and blind, and with her resilience she keeps on going with her life, and makes history. Helen Adams Keller is not only very inspiring and brave, she was also amazingly successful and changed the world. If you want to hear more about the amazing life of Helen Keller, then I would recommend you keep on reading. (Helen Keller, History.com)

Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in a small town in Alabama called Tuscumbia. Helen was the oldest of two girls in her family, along with four older step brothers that also grew up with Helen. Helen's mother was the caretaker in her family since her father was serving in the civil war. Helen was born in good health with all her senses. In fact, she started talking at six months old and began walking at age one, until she got sick. In 1880, when she was two years old Helen caught what is now believed to be a scarlet...show more content...

She had a personal teacher named Anne Sullivan who was primary educator. Anne taught Helen very important lessons like how to speak and how others would speak and communicate with her. Helen learned sign language and people did sign language on her hand to talk to her. Helen loved her teacher, in fact Anne spent the rest of her life with Helen. When Anne died Helen was very sad, but it motivated Helen to do more as a person. Then, in 1914 , Helen got as secretary named Polly Thomson to help start a business. This helped get Helen moving. As her writing and working continued, Helen got a counselor in 1646 from the American Association of blindness to help with HelenВґs projects at the time. This was when she began her traveling and she became such an

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Helen Keller was blind and deaf after she had gotten sick, she was only eighteen months. I have chosen Helen because she was a motivational speaker. 6th Graders shoudl know about her because she was a leader. On June 7,1880 Helen was born. Helen had gotten very sick at the age of eighteen months she had then felt better but was blind and deaf.She could not speak due to her being deaf.

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Anne Sullivan's Impact On Helen Keller

I believe that Anne Sullivan made a huge impact on Helen Keller because she taught her how to speak. And she also just like her family never gave up on her even though she couldn't hear what she was saying along with anyone else. Not only that but they never judged her nor did they treat her differently. Anne Sullivan wasn't helping her for the money but she was helping Helen Keller because she wanted to help. They also didn't miss treat her but they made sure to be extra nice to her. Both Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller'sfamily were very supportive of her and wanted her to talk. Helen Keller's family also fed her and took care of her since she couldn't. They also treated her with respect. And then they also gave her somewhere to live.

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Achievements And Accomplishments Of Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At only nineteen months old, Keller fell sick with a high fever that was never fully diagnosed and it caused her to become blind and deaf. Ever since the day that Keller became disabled, it was hard for her to speak and see Keller would get so upset and angry at times because she couldn't talk and see like the rest of her family, and that she would throw temper tantrums. Ever since she got the help, Keller got a better attitude, life, and education. Although Miss Keller went through many horrible things, she grew up and had a lot of achievements and accomplishments. Keller learned how to write, spell and she also traveled for many reasons. She wanted help others that had been going through the same things as herself. She also wrote books, and a lot of them. One of Keller's many achievements was when she learned how to read, write, and spell. Ever since a young age, she had to rely on using her touch to get herself around. Whenever she would walk around, she always had her hands out in front of her and feeling around to sense whoever or whatever is around her. She got around the house and property very well. Also, when Miss Sullivan came out to help Helen with learning, there was one important event that had happened between Keller and Miss Sullivan. A quote is, "Finally, as Keller felt water from a pump gushing out over onto of her hands, Sullivan formed the letters for the word "water" into Keller's Get more content

Helen Keller House and Museum at Ivy Green When I heard about this assignment I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I heard about a special lady who was born in Tuscumbia Alabama. The special lady I was referring too was Helen Keller, I didn't really know much about her except for the fact that she was blind and deaf. I have also heard about the play and the movie "Miracle Worker" that was based off of her life. Little did I know I was in for a treat, learning about this magnificent woman's life and the influence she had on the deaf community.Helen Keller's early life started in TuscumbiaAlabama where she was born and raised. Helen home was located on 600 acres of land which was massive compared to what we have now. Her home was...show more content...

During this time period when children contracted this disease most children died, but fortunately Helen survived. She did not come out of this unharmed she became blind and deaf. As a result Helen became a lot more of a problem child. Instead of sitting and eating with the rest of the family she would walk around the table and take food off of each of their plates. Also if Helen didn't receive what she wanted she would throw temper tantrums until she got her way. Once during one of her outburst she began to beat her hands so hard on the hardwood floor that her hands began to bleed. Helen later said during her time as a child she felt as if she was trapped in her own mind. Her parents had to do something, so they hired a teacher whose name was Anne Sullivan who was educated and graduated from the Perkins Institute at the age of twenty. This would be Anne's first job helping to educate Helen. Mr. Keller offered her thirty–five dollars a month to move from Boston to their home in Alabama to with Helen. For the first few weeks Anne just observed Helen during her everyday activities, but one day Helen decided to take a piece of sausage from Anne's plate just as times before, but Anne slapped her hand and putting her hand to her face and moving it from side to side saying "No"! This was a new concept to Helen because no one had ever told her no before. Because of this Helen

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Helen Keller had an inspiring and moving life. She learned manual sign language, how to speak, and educated many people on the struggles of being blind that still echo in society today. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her parents were Katherine Adams Keller and Arthur H. Keller, who proudly served in the Civil War. The family owned a cotton plantation, and in his later years Arthur wrote a weekly newspaper called the North Alabamian (biography.com, Internet). WhenHelen Keller was born, she had all her senses, but when she turned 18 months old, her ability to see and hear were taken from her by an illness diagnosed as "brain fever" by a family doctor. Researchers today think that "brain fever" might have either been Scarlet fever or meningitis, and Keller even said in her autobiography, The Story of My Life, that it was "acute congestion of the stomach and brain." During her battle of with the illness, she describes lying in bed, her vision and hearing getting more hazy day after day, and the sun's rays becoming dim. Soon enough, Keller wasn't responding to things like a hand waving in front of her face, or a bell ringing;...show more content...

Soon enough, Keller was curious about the name of everything, and was a voracious learner. After she had a basic grasp of manual sign language, she yearned to learn how to communicate through speech. Keller would place her hands on her mother's mouth as she spoke, and would often babble back broken nonsense. When she was 10 years old, Keller began speech classes at Horace Mann School for the Deaf, and she would stay there for another 25 years perfecting verbal communication. She also attended Wright–Humason School for the Deaf, where she would continue to practice her communicating skills and basic academic courses (biography.com,

Helen Keller, who was born on June 27th, 1880 and died June 1st, 1968, was one of the most important people of her time. She accomplished so much in fields such as literature and politics. The fact that she was able to do so much with her life is impressive not only in the fact that she was a woman, but more impressive due to the fact that she became blind and deaf at only eighteen months old. Through the help of Anne Sullivan though, Keller, was able to learn so much. This short story, "The Day Language Came into My Life," is an excerpt from her autobiography, where she recalls her memories from when she first learned about language. In her story, Keller, uses a unique metaphor to describe what it was like going from no language to having a language. She does this by comparing herself to a boat in a dense fog with no compass or sounding–line, who was just lost at sea in a tangible darkness, and then the "light" came into her world. This light that meant so much to Keller was the love of her teacher, Anne Sullivan....show more content... One of the most prominent examples is when she smashes the doll on the ground because she had not loved the doll because in that world she had not known love. Later in the story though after she has learned of love she goes back to the doll she has destroyed and for the first time feels sorrow. The doll represents Keller and how before the light comes she is angry and broken but then after the light she feels more complete, even though the doll doesn't get fixed completely. One other example is the time when she feels water and learns what it is called, and suddenly feels awakened, hopeful, and even free. All in all, Helen Keller's use of metaphor is very effective in describing her experience. Through her metaphor she conveys how language and love come into her life and push out all of the fog and completely change her world for the better, giving her hope, happiness, and the feeling of

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If most people heard the name Helen Keller, they would think of that poor girl who was deaf and blind. They would think of her and remember the stories they heard about how she was taught how to communicate by a teacher named Anne Sullivan. That is probably all they would think about her. How she was world famous because of how she learned to read through Braille, letters pressed into her hand, and how she eventually learned to speak, however, this is not all there is to Helen Keller. It is true that she had great challenges to come because of her disabilities. When she was only 19 months old she became ill with what at the time was called, "brain fever," and is now thought to have been meningitis or scarlet fever. When she finally recovered,...show more content...

"Helen became an "ambassador for the blind," raising money and lobbying for the sightless. From her first trip to Japan in 1937 until her retirement, she made nine tours around the world and visited 34 countries." Everywhere she went Helen inspired people with her incredible story and her campaigns for the better treatment of the blind. Keller once said, "'A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.'" The speeches she gave helped people to understand how to treat those with disabilities. It helped them to realize that they are just normal human beings. Keller's tours around the world greatly improved the lives of people with

People who are blind face many different problems in accomplishing everyday activities and becoming an independent individual. Some are able to overcome this issue while others struggle through it in their lives. In "Helen Keller's Address before the New York Association for the Blind, January 15, 1907" she makes an appeal to the audience that the blind should be helped and made independent so that they can stand up and support themselves. She uses pathos or emotionally packed words, examples and anecdotes and cites from a prominent source to convince her audience that the blind are not helpless, but they are in need of guidance from people who can see in order to live and thrive independently. The author uses pathos very frequently throughout the text to get her point across to the audience. In the text, Helen Keller mentions that, "For New York is great because of the open hand with which it responds to the needs of the weak and poor." This quote demonstrates Keller's point that people in New York are a champion in helping so people of New York should want to give and help the needy, which carries an emotional appeal. In addition, Helen Keller says that, "The men and women for whom I speak are poor and weak in that they lack one of the chief weapons with which the human being fights his battle. But they must not on that account be sent to the rear. Much less must they be pensioned like disabled soldiers." This also carries a very emotional point because she uses a metaphor

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Essay About Helen Keller

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." – Helen Keller On June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama a baby was born Helen Keller. Helen was born with her senses and could see and started speaking when she was just six months old. Then, her life started going downhill, 19 months into Helen's life she became blind and deaf from an illness called scarlet fever. Most of her childhood was very rough for her because she couldn't play with the other kids and couldn't speak which resulted in her terrible tantrums. When Helen was six years old a woman name Anne Sullivan entered her life. A soon as Anne arrived Helen started learning. Her first word was "doll" which Anne had spelt in her hand and gave her doll which had been made for her. Soon she would be taught more words. Anne felt that Helen wasn't concentrating on her so she asked to take Helen out of the house to a nearby cottage to teach her more things. Anne went outside to the water spicket, ran some water and stuck Helen's hand in it, while it was running through helen's hand Anne took her free hand and spelt the word "water" first slowly then fast (biography.com). Helen later learned to read and write. Now by the age 10 Helen wants to learn to speak. She was dissatisfied with her voice so she threw quite a few tantrums (biography.com). At the age 11 Helen was accused of plagiarism. She got help from her friends Bell and Twain to help defend her case (afb.org). As Helen grew older she Get more content

Helen Keller Essay

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller Inspiration

The potency and inspiration of the less–than fortunate never ceases to amaze me. Against physical conditions that would enslave even the strongest of women, Helen Keller challenged her multiple disabilities and became an educated young women in spite of them. Blind and deaf at two, Helen Keller's story of bravery and fortitude and her remarkable relationship with her beloved teacher Ann Sullivan, is a delicate lesson in the ability of the extraordinary few to triumph over adversity.

As a young girl, Keller was powerless to express herself. Until at the age of 7, an event happened that she declares, "the most important day I remember in all my life." The event she describes is...show more content...

I was able to formulate a time line using the textbook and had Helen been born fifty years earlier then she was, she wouldn't have benefited from the revolutionary techniques that taught her reading (several languages), writing, and eventually to speak. The Braille Literary code, the same code Helen so rigorously manipulated in her literary explorations, was only fully perfected in 1834. Perkins School for the Blind, erected in 1832, was highly acclaimed for its accomplishment in Helen Keller's instance specifically. It was one of the first of such institutions in the United States. Some of the earliest schools modeled their educational programs after public schools. But as the textbook points out in both the visually and hearing disabled chapters, education of the blind or deaf is highly specialized to their specific needs.

In 1890 Keller learned to speak after only one month of study. Ten years later, she was able to enterRadcliffe College, from which she graduated with honors in 1904. A remarkable deed considering that only twenty–four years prior to her graduation she had absolutely no outlet for communication.

I feel it my duty to point out that without "a" Anne Sullivan in Helen's life many of her accomplishments wouldn't have been possible. Only a loving, caring soul, such as Anne Sullivan could have fostered the astounding growth and perseverance in her finest pupil. The valuable lesson to be gained in Get more content

Essay about Learning from Helen Keller

Learning from Helen Keller

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Helen Keller is probably the most universally recognized disabled person of the twentieth century. (Others such as Franklin Roosevelt were equally well–known, but Keller is remembered primarily for her accomplishments which are disability–related.) Those of us who have grown up in the last half of this century have only known Keller as a figure of veneration. We know her primarily through popularized versions of her life such as the play "The Miracle Worker," or through her autobiographical works such as The Story of My Life (Keller, 1961 [1902]) and The World I Live In (Keller, 1908). Most of us have come away with the image of a more–than–human person living with the...show more content... I will say, se agapo and pos echete and I think she will say, kalos, and then I will say chaere. Will you please come to see me soon and take me to the theater? When you come I will say Kale emera, and when you go home I will say Kale nykta. Now I am too tired to write more. Je vous time. Au revoir.

From your darling little friend,

HELEN A. KELLER

Anagnos, the man responsible for connecting AnnieSullivan with the Keller family and an eager promoter of the interests of the Perkins' School, where Sullivan had been both a student and a teacher trainee, was effusive in his description of Helen Keller in the Perkins' School's 1888 annual report, published little more than a year after she began to communicate:

...as if impelled by a resistless instinctive force she snatched the key of the treasury of the English language from the fingers of her teacher, unlocked its doors with vehemence, and began to feast upon its contents with inexpressible delight. As soon as a slight crevice was opened in the outer wall of their twofold imprisonment, her mental faculties emerged full–armed from their living tomb as Pallas Athene from the head of Zeus. (Quoted in Herrmann, 1998, p.64).

In subsequent years, Anagnos wrote at length of Keller in the School's annual report, with each report more glowing and, it must be said, more

exaggerated than the last 146 pages were devoted to her in the 1889 annual report:

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Hellen Keller

Helen Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Alabama. Her father was a newspaper editor. She was a lively and healthy child with a friendly personality. She could walk and even say a few simple words.

In 1882 she caught a fever that was so bad she almost died. When it was over she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear it was also very hard to speak. She was 18 months old when this happened. But Helen was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other senses. She followed her mother wherever she went, hanging onto her skirts. She touched and smelled everything she came across and felt other people's hands to see what they were doing. She...show more content... Finally she was lucky enough to get a place at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston. She had the nickname 'Spitfire' because she was so rude and had such bad behaviour. But the director realised that if she could learn to behave she would be one of his most talented students. After several years, and two successful operations to restore her sight, she graduated with honours. The director knew that this was the person to tame Helen Keller.

Anne soon realised why Helen threw tantrums. She knew that if she could teach her to communicate she would be a different person. But before she could teach this wild child, she had to control her. When she tried to get Helen to do something she didn't like Helen would scream and kick and bite. Anne eventually won these battles by will–power and not giving up.

Anne decided to teach Helen the manual alphabet. This is a sign language where each letter is signed onto the hand of the deaf–blind person so they can feel it. Each letter has a separate sign. This means that words and sentences can be spelt. It also means that hard ideas can be expressed.

Anne led Helen to the water–pump and pumped water onto her hand. At the same time she spelt out the individual letters, W A T E R. She did this again and again. Suddenly Helen realised that the individual signs stood for the letters that made up the word Water. In the same instant she also

Helen Keller was an American author who lived to educate and inspire others to become the most unique author of her time. She was a gifted woman who had exceptional writing abilities. She utilized simplistic style to correspond with all varieties of people. She wrote to inspire people and to help disabled people achieve their goals. Her writing style was full of many types of diction, syntactic devices, and patterns of imagery to exemplify her life chronicle. Keller used an unadorned tone with superb expressions and descriptions.

Helen Adams Keller was born in the small town ofTuscumbia, Alabamain 1880. When she was nineteen months old she was diagnosed with scarlet fever, which left her blind and deaf for the...show more content...

Her main advantage in becoming successful was her eagerness to learn. When she first started to learn she says, "I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things." (Keller, pg. 72) She had a positive persona that enabled her to learn.

She wrote simple but effectively in order to appeal to ordinary people, like she saw herself. Keller used simple sentences to convey her thoughts. "I felt approaching footsteps..." (Keller, pg. 15) she writes simple to easily explain her situations.

Keller's main message in her autobiography is that you can persevere through anything in life, "Helen Keller has shown the world that one can achieve anything in their lifetime." ( , Pg. 210)

She tells the story of her life to present the examples in her life and to show her own uniqueness. Keller proved that her deafness and blindness would not stop her from being an extraordinary person. She also wrote to express her survival of her disabilities and how she overcame them. Keller's purpose was to inspire people to endure. She communicated to disabled people especially to help them realize what they are capable of.

Helen Keller uses specific diction techniques in her writing to address her ideas. She uses vivid sensory language when describing events and objects. When she went to visit the ocean she says, "I felt the pebbles rattling as the waves

Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Inspirational Phenomenon What would the world be without sight, hearing, or a voice? Helen Keller may understand. As young as 19 months old she lived in a dark world. Helen Keller worked all her life to help blind deaf and mute people. She changed the world by creating a better environment for blind, deaf, and mute people. She showed people that even though she struggled with physical disabilities she made a difference. She left a legacy as a positive, hopeful, and influential person. Helen Keller's background was very rough. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. In 1882 she was diagnosed with an illness called scarlet fever which caused the loss of her sight, voice, and hearing as early as 19 months (bio.com). Helen...show more content...

One of the reasons why she made a difference is because of her knowledge that she shared. She became a celebrity by sharing her sharing her experiences with an audience. In 1923 Helen worked as a fundraiser for the American Foundation for the Blind. From an early age she used her skills as a writer to speak truth to power. She also co–founded Helen Keller International in 1915. The changes that people could see physically was that Helen really helped people with disabilities. She helped with welfare and their lives. Another thing that she changed as the lives of the soldiers of World War 2, she worked with the soldiers who had been blinded in battle. Helen supported many people by what she did in life. She conquered physical disabilities, which gave people like her hope. Helen helped political problems including women's suffrage, and women's right to vote. This supported women and gave them strength and Get more content

"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming" said Helen Keller, a woman who faced many obstacles in her life ("Fun"). Most people don't dedicate their lives to help others, especially if they have disabilities themselves, but Helen Keller is a different story. At 19 months old, Helen Keller was diagnosed with a disease that led her to be deaf and blind. A true hero is someone who is dedicated to help others in need no matter the circumstances/struggle he or she faces, never gives up, and is an inspiration for others. Helen Keller is a hero because she overcame the struggle of being deaf and blind by never giving up, dedicated her life to help others, and made change in the world despite her disabilities.

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Through hard work and persistence, she received it. She demonstrated that she was more than capable of taking care of herself as she changed people's attitude to those who were deaf and blind and fought hard for her beliefs. Leslie Garratt, the author of Helen Keller: A Photographic Story of Life stated, "And now after a lifetime of effort and optimism, she was one of the most best–known and most respected women in the world" (Garrett 8). Keller demonstrated to all that a true hero is one that overcomes a struggle by never giving up. Just because you have a struggle, you are not considered a hero. A true hero never gives up no matter how hard or long it will take until he or she demonstrates that a tough obstacle can be faced and defeated. Helen Keller is a hero because she devoted her life to help others. Even though she had enough to worry about herself, she always ended up putting the needs of others before her. In fact, she traveled around the world giving speeches and used her education to influence and improve the lives of people with disabilities by lobbying and lecturing (McGinnity et al 3). Everywhere she traveled, she would change opinions towards people with disabilities. Her speeches were so inspiring and so successful, that countries, presidents, and royal families would all send her invitations. We can all see that she helped people who once lost hope. She took a long part of her lifetime to lecture those who needed to be Get

There have been many influential blind and/or deaf people through time. For example, individuals deaf/blind influence by overcoming their disability, using it to their advantage and helping others with the same or similar illnesses or disabilities. Specifically, Helen Keller has influenced many, young or old.Helen Keller is influential because she followed her passion, she overcame a great obstacle, and she had determination. The first reason Helen Keller is in influential is because she followed her passions.

I know this because in the article Biography.com it states,"Beginning in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate, and Keller went on to college, graduating in 1904."This quote supports my answer because it shows that even women that are blind and/or deaf deserve a chance at education, which shows that she followed her passions by getting an education.https:/

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Next, I know this because in the Helen Keller | Biography and Facts, it states. "Keller began to write of blindness, a subject then taboo in women's magazines because of the relationship of many cases to venereal disease. She wrote of her life in several books, including The Story of My Life (1903), Optimism (1903), The World I Live In (1908), My Religion (1927), Helen Keller's Journal (1938), and The Open Door (1957)."https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen–Keller This shows that writing all these books could inspire other blind/deaf people to follow their passions, therefore making Helen Keller influential. Last, I know this because the article Helen Keller Facts states,"Helen Keller was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 for her work on behalf of those with disabilities." This quote supports my answer because it shows how Helen Keller followed her passion by being awarded by helping blind/deaf people, which could make her want to help people blind/deaf even more. So to sum it all up, one reason Helen Keller is influentul because of her ability to follow her passions."http:/

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Another reason Helen Keller is influential is because she overcame a great obstacle. I

Helen Keller: The Story Of My Life

Helen Adams Keller was born on 27th June 1880. She was an american author and also she was a lecturer, and a political activist. She was born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama which is now a museum. Her birthday is celebrated as the "Helen Keller Day" in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. She was the first person who even after being blind and deaf earned a degree of bachelors in arts. The story behind how Keller's teacher Anne Sullivan helped her to learn how to communicate is widely known by the play and film "The Miracle Worker". She was a prolific author,Helen Keller was a well traveled and a outspoken person in her convictions. She was a member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World. Keller also campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights,...show more content...

At the age of 22, she published her own autobiography by the title "The Story of My Life" in 1903. She published this autobiography with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan and husband John Macy. This autobiography included all the stories of her life till the age of 21 and was in college when she had written it.

Helen Keller also wrote "The World I Live In" in 1908, to express her views and how she felt about the world and what is her perspective to the world. She also wrote a a series of essays on socialism named as Out of the Dark which was published in 1913. Keller had also written her spiritual autobiography "My Religion" which was published in 1927 and then again in 1994 after being revised and reissued in Lights in My Darkness. This tells about a christian who explained the teachings of the bible and he had also said that the second birth of Jesus Crist has already taken place his name was Emanuel Swedenborgian .

Helen Keller has described her views of her beliefs in the following words

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The child is crying, but her mother does not know the reason. It is screaming and kicking for someone to listen, to fulfill her needs. This was exactly the way Helen Keller lived part of her childhood. If we think about Erik W. and Uncle Jim, they were only blind, whereas Helen Keller was deaf and blind. Living with two disabilities, going against society and reaching up to great heights, I believe Helen Keller faced the greatest obstacles.

Helen Keller had come across tremendous difficulties, but the aspect that made her stand out was that she was blind and deaf. Keller developed the disabilities due to an unknown illness, either rubella or scarlet fever, at a very young age. Her behavior was often challenging because she had no way of...show more content...

To help her read, Sullivan would give her cardboard which had printed words with raised letters. Keller had her teacher's guidance every step of the way. From speech classes at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, to helping her interpret lectures and texts. And in 1904 Helen Keller "graduated from Radcliffe College",–www.history.com making her the first deaf and blind person to finish with a bachelor's degree. She may have accomplished many spectacular things in life, but the process of learning how to speak was the most frustrating for her. Sullivan took Keller to the principal of Horace Mann School for Deaf, Sarah Fuller. Keller would feel the positions of Fuller's lips, tongue and the vibrations of her throat. Even though she learned to speak, it was not with clarity. These are most of the reasons why Helen Keller is remembered to date. She had achieved quite a lot despite her disabilities and this inspires millions of people today.

Another reason for Keller being an inspiration is because she was also a Women's and Worker's rights activist. She believed that capitalism caused the most disabilities, which then amplified the misery of the disabled people through increased poverty and isolation. Workers would become disabled from industrial and workplace accidents and diseases. And the greed of the employers made them disregard the safety of the worker's. Keller also tried to bring women and child abuse to the public's attention.