Helen Keller Essay

Helen Keller once said, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through (an) experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” In literary works, the crucible can represent a hard test in a time of a severe trial. The author of The Crucible, Arthur Miller, ingeniously chose the word as the title of his play because several characters, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Judge Danforth, experience very hard tests of character…

American Pit Bull Terrier the hunting dog (APBT) aka Pit Bull brings concern to a lot of people due to the quantity of human fatalities these dogs are reported in. The media would have you believe that these deaths are on the increase and is of epidemic proportions with Pit Bull being the culprit. An urban legend is that they have lockup jaws and have excellent bite force. Another story is that they're aggressive towards people, and go insane. The majority don’t understand is that the term “Pit…

“What if the teacher doesn’t like me, what if I say something wrong and he thinks I’m stupid, what if…”, I often asked myself these questions coming into 8th grade honors English which had simply struck me in the eye with a compulsion of fear. I often thought that this year would be like all years of English in my life; I struggle to find the motivation I need to write and sustain my grades, which ranged most commonly through a B+ to an A-, but this year/quarter is like no other, it’s my year to…

Many are familiar with the story of Helen Keller: how she devastatingly became both blind and deaf, but then gradually learned to read and write through a conversion of attitude and a steady hand to guide her. Such is the archetypal transformation of death and rebirth that a character goes through physically, mentally, or emotionally, when a part of his old life dies and as a result new habits transform him. Although water is a destructive force in nature, it is commonly associated with the…

Emotions: The Keys to Fulfillment and Well-Being Helen Keller once said: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” It is a very abstract quote, but one I have no doubt in my mind that she is talking about emotions. It seems, when faced with emotions, people generally have one or two reactions, that they must be restrained and suppressed in some way, or that they should be recognized as a vital aspect to our species. I…

Balram witness’s the death of both of his parents, from illnesses in both of which could have been cured had he been in a higher-caste system of society. His father, Vikram Halwai, died of mistreated tuberculosis. Balram exclaims the ignorance of the government as they failed to appropriately care for his father’s condition and death: The ward boys made us clean up our Father before we could remove the body. A goat came in and sniffed as we were mopping the blood off the floor. The ward boys…

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Keller. The truth in one’s character is a prevailing theme throughout The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is being accused and persecuted for her sin by hypocritical townspeople and powerful men. She protects her lover, the Reverend Arthur…

He went to Boston in 1871 to teach at Sarah Fuller's School for the Deaf, the first such school in the world. He also tutored private students, including Helen Keller. As professor of vocal physiology and speech at Boston University in 1873, he initiated conventions for teachers of the deaf. Throughout his life he continued to educate the deaf, and he founded the American Association to Promote the Teaching…

following the four noble truths and the Eight-Fold Path. To have all of ones suffering cease must be an exceptionable feeling. I believe that helping end someone else’s suffering would be even more incredible. To conclude, I present a quote by Helen Keller: “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming”. It clearly states that suffering is part of our daily lives even in the smallest ways. The thought of going through steps to achieve Nirvana is formidable, but it helps to…

Alexander Graham Bell was an inventive man who changed the future with everything that he invented. He was a man who started out with teaching the deaf how to communicate. He didn’t just randomly start inventing things. Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized the world with his telephone, schools for the deaf, his other inventions, his integrity as a man and with his family, even though he did not always receive the credit he was due. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and…