Helen Keller Essay

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision” (Helen Keller). In order for an individual to truly understand and effectively interpret the meaning of their life one must have precise vision. Author, Bernard Roth wrote a handbook on focusing one to have tunnel vision targeting the life in which they desire to achieve. The Achievement Habit allows one to understand being an achiever can be learned, by using the principles of design thinking to walk through several stories…

My poetry anthology is a collection of poems that I thoroughly enjoy and relate too. There is no set theme in my poetry anthology. Despite having no set theme, love is a frequent theme in my poetry anthology. Love is a frequent theme because I am a clichéd hopeless romantic who simply loves anything to do with love. Some of the greatest poems come from those who are in love, take W.B Yeats for example who writes of his unrequited love for Maud Gonne. There's a quote that says all lovers are…

within the obsolete notion of gender discrimination. It is unimaginative how a father treat nicely to his son whereas abuse his daughter in the old society, it is a pity that this patriarchal ideology even appears in many families in modern society. In Helen Keller’s book “Three Days to See”, she stated that “I am happiness because I am the daughter of my mother who gives her love to me unconditionally; at the same time, I am happiness since I am a mother of my daughter and I give my best love…

Helen Keller once said, “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” Faith plays a huge role in most people’s everyday life depending on their beliefs and their religion. A good example of a strong faith is in a memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. In this memoir, Elie goes through heart-rending times where he needs to keep his faith strong to survive through the heartbreaking, painful, miserable events that soon happen later. Elie is saying to himself how empty his…

Throughout the many chapters, James Loewen discussed how the textbooks industries are corrupt, and how they put false information into the student’s textbooks. From Helen Keller, to Christopher Columbus, to the National Government, Loewen showed that textbooks either refused to tell the whole truth to make the person more admirable or easy for children to look up to, to completely lying to students to not offend anyone…

We all love American history but history class is the most hated subject taught in school. “Just memorize the notes, and you’ll be fine on the test,” said every history teacher I have ever had in my schooling. What do we really learn and reflect on from history class? Is it the teacher who can not teach or is the textbook that makes it boring? In “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen, he criticizes how textbooks distort American History in a way that corresponds with the mindset of rich…

My time of struggle is not one that has ended, but continues to be a part of me. It all started before I had an understanding of anything. I was a three month old baby being taken to a check up by my parents. In the doctor's office the doctor told my parents the diagnosis of what they had taken me for, but gave them the news that changed everything, I had a problem in my eyes that he was not able to understand. The doctor scheduled a consultation with an eye specialist three hours away from…

Helen Keller once said “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk in the light alone.” In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Huck has a very special friendship with a man named Jim, a slave that is on his way to freedom, they decide to team up to escape from their old lives, Huck Finn, a young boy who loves an adventure, has help from another young boy named Tom Sawyer, who thrives to make adventures more complicated and is very immature. Through the contrast of…

Book burning refers to the ritual destruction of books or other written materials by fire. Often carried out in public areas, book burning represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials being destroyed. During the nineteenth century in Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Regime strategically implemented this method of oppression to demoralize any potential protests and to spark fierce nationalism into the hearts of the…

And in 1858, Darwin also lost his 18-month-old son, Charles Waring, to scarlet fever. Though there is no scientific proof, it is alleged that the “brain fever” that Helen Keller contracted in January 1882, when she was 19 months old, was Scarlet Fever. It is suggested this caused complications leading her to lose her vision and hearing. One of the most dreaded and scariest diseases in the early twentieth century for a…