Bridget Sullivan

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, by Barry Denenberg, is the diary of Bess Brennan. This book is about a young girl that got into a horrible accident that changed her life forever. Bess Brennan, the girl that got into the accident, is now blind. She goes to a school for the blind, and doesn’t like it at first. Eventually she learns to do things for herself since the accident, and her view of the world is much different. The setting takes place at her home and her new school, Perkins School for the…

determined to change. It is often said that the blind see with their ears, and the deaf hear with their eyes. However, this did not apply to Keller. She had many limitations, and learned slower than any other girl her age. Keller’s teacher Annie Sullivan had to find alternative ways of learning that helped Helen understand. She also had a lack of knowledge, so when she was young and still learning people accused her of plagiarism. Based on this information, the reader understands that…

to her. There are streets named after Helen Keller in Zürich, Switzerland, in the USA, in Getafe, Spain, in Lod, Israel, in Lisbon, Portugal and in Caen, France. A stamp was issued in 1980 by the United States Postal Service depicting Keller and Sullivan, to mark the centennial of Keller's birth.…

Helen Keller Helen Keller is one of the most inspiring woman in the blind and deaf community. Becoming blind and deaf at the age of 19 months by an unknown illness, her life was turned around. Although, she didn’t let her difficulties take over. Helen defeated the odds and learned more than anyone could've imagined. She even graduated and decided to inspire others by writing a book about her life. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 In Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen had a normal childhood until…

impacted her life and also help her to find a teacher. Her teacher Miss Anne Sullivan taught Helen how to spell words in her hand and taught her how to read with raised letter flash cards also Miss Sullivan had a great impact in all aspects in her life. Helen went to Cambridge in 1896 to get prepared to go into Radcliffe college but as a little girl she always wanted to attend Harvard University. She always had miss Sullivan there to translate through hand spelling and also her principal and…

called “The Miracle Worker”. It was written by William Gibson in 1956. Six years after the play came out, a movie was released based on the play. It was called “The Miracle Worker”, it was directed by Arthur Penn and was released in 1962. Annie Sullivan, teacher, came into Helen Keller’s life when she was about six or seven. Annie taught Helen basically everything she knew, she became unmute,…

“ The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart ” - Helen Keller This quote explains that beautiful things are not what's on the outside it's the inside what counts. This quote explains the point Helen Keller was trying to get across because she said blind/deaf people can do anything seeing and hearing people can do. “They must be felt with the heart” Helen was most deaf & blind people's inspiration she encouraged them that…

essay on optimism. Helen contracted an unknown illness at 19 months that robbed her of both hearing and sight. For years, she could only communicate through a few gestures; no one cared to try to teach or discipline her. Then a woman named Annie Sullivan heard about Helen. She tried tirelessly to teach the child the names of different things, but Helen could not grasp the concept of names. Finally, when Annie ran water over one of Helen’s hands and wrote “water” with her finger into Helen’s…

The speaker in this address to the New York Association for the Blind is Helen Keller. This speech took place on January 15, 1907. The speech, Helen Keller gave, was about the blind people consequently showing them that they can be strong and not be apart of the weak and poor. Helen wants to show the world that they can be treated as normal humans, not as the weak and poor of this country. Helen starts out by saying that a blind man’s community plays the biggest role in his success or…

The Miracle on 34th street is a film remade in 1994 for the 4th time for entertainment of the entire family; it is a classic example of a Christmas movie in today’s society. The Miracle on 34th street was produced by William S. Beasley, John Hughes, and Bill Ryan. The Director for the film Miracle on 34th street is Les Mayfield. There were approximately 55 cast members for this film, the following are the actor/actresses that were given credit: Richard Attenborough as Kris Kringle,…