Deafblindness

The American Dream What truly is the American Dream? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the American Dream is defined as “The belief that everyone in the US has the chance to be successful and happy if they work hard”. There are many Americans that have successfully achieved their version of the American Dream. One of those people is a man by the name of Chris Gardner. Chris Gardner was someone who was a single father and lived a very impoverished life. Another person who achieved the American Dream was Helen Keller. Helen Keller is a girl who got a fever when she was young and went permanently deaf, and blind because of it. Finally, another person who successfully achieved the American Dream was Paige Rawl. Paige Rawl is someone who found out that she was born HIV positive. All of these people have spent anywhere from a few months to years trying to overcome their setbacks, and achieve their American Dreams’. To overcome setbacks, and achieve the American Dream, one must be determined, courageous, and have a good attitude. To overcome any obstacle in life, one needs to have determination. Chris Gardner is someone who showed a lot of determination through the time of his impoverished life. It all started with Chris having a very hard childhood (“Chris Gardner,” Contemporary Black par.5). Chris’s hard childhood is what made him determined to be a good father (“Chris Gardner,” Contemporary Black par.11). Because Chris wanted to be a good father and take care of his son,…

Helen Kellerby: Keely Budge"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it' - Helen KellerHelen keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tusscumbia, her childhood wasnt like any other childs, Her father, Arthur (captain) Keller had fought in the civil war from the south, and after he left the war his first wife died and he remarried Kate Addams. Helen was the eldest girl and her first words were "wah, wah" for water and "tea, tea" which stood for…

Biography of Helen Keller By: Aiden Saldana Helen Adams Keller was an American author and a lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. As an author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions. Helen proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world. She Was also taught that deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do. Helen Keller was born in…

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt by the heart” (quotationspage.com). Helen Keller may have been blind and deaf but she touched and changed the lives of many people, from promoting woman’s rights to traveling the world helping others to founding schools for the deaf and blind. To understand her legacy one most learn about her background, struggles, and social activism. Background Information Helen Keller was born in 1880 in…

Helen Keller is a hero to many people around the world and especially the disabled community. She was a fighter and did not let her blindness or deafness get in the way of her life and success. She worked hard to overcome her obstacles and then also became an activist. As an activist she helped and influenced disabled people to be courageous like her. She made effort to change the system for disabled people, socially and politically. She proved to the world that being disabled does not mean…

THE STRUGGLES HELEN KELLER OVERCAME Helen Keller is a remarkable woman. She was put through so much in her life and overcame obstacles that some might not understand. Reading her books and hearing the stories about how she slept and night and tossed and turned, it will give you a different perspective. Her life was filled with silence and darkness until Anne came along. Their friendship grew and grew; Anne helped Helen through her darkest hours and Helen did the same in return. Helen…

Introduction Imagine being blind and deaf before having the ability to understand the world. Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf at the age of nineteen months, was one of the most influential blind and deaf people. She first had to be taught about her surroundings. The person who helped her accomplish what she did name was Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Once Anne had helped Helen, Helen began to make impact on the world around her. She attended college and earned a bachelor's degree, the first blind…

Helen Keller was an influential person because even she overcame an illness that left her blind and deaf and became a strong, independent woman. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. In Tuscumbia, Alabama and was the first two daughters born to Arthur H (Source 1 ). Helen Keller's family was not very wealthy. they earned money from there families cotton farm/plantation. (Source 4) In 1882 Helen at 19 months old got a disease called brain fever. She lost her sight and…

Helen Keller was an educator, journalist, activist, humanitarian, and author. She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in the year 1880 and died in 1968 at the age of 87. Helen Keller was not only blind but deaf as well. She went blind, deaf, and mute at eighteen months after becoming ill. At the time, doctors said that Keller contracted an illness called “brain fever.” Now specialists believe that it may have been scarlet fever or meningitis. Although Helen was diagnosed with these disabilities, she…

Discovering the English language may be the most crucial experience one can endure as an American citizen. For Helen Keller, Malcolm X and Christine Marín, it was, and there are extraordinary similarities despite their extremely different situations. Helen Keller was an upper class deaf and blind girl living in America during a time where handicapped people were dehumanized and negatively looked upon. She was taught to read and write three months shy of her seventh birthday by…