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    Helen Keller

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    written by Helen Keller was published in the year 1903 in the form of an autobiography describing about her early life, education, life struggles and specially her experiences with her teacher Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Helen Keller wrote this book to honor the inventor of the telephone and a teacher of the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander helps the Keller family to find a suitable teacher for Helen and also becomes a good friend of her. As a child, she seems to be an impatient, stubborn, aggressive and had cut off from a world she cannot understand. But later she is turned into a much more mature, determined, insatiably curious and optimistic adult who refuse to be halted by disabilities of any sort with the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan who is as stubborn and willful as Helen. With her persistently devoting and creative nature, she is able to break through Helen emotionally and intellectually. Anne, soon became the best companion that she ever had even though her younger sister Mildred Keller who Helen first regarded as an intruder but eventually they became playmates. Helen explained in this book that she was able to transform herself from a dependent child almost wholly without language to an accomplished and successful…

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    Helen Keller: A Hero

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    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…

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    Struggles Of Helen Keller

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    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…

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    Helen Keller was a blind and deaf woman who was born and lived in Tuscumbia Alabama. She was born in 1880 and died in 1968. Keller was considered one of the world’s leading humanitarians and was a famous author and activist. Her experiences from a small baby helped shape the person Helen Keller would later become. She was motivated by these experiences to make a difference for others. Her accomplishments are historically important because they have become a model for others with disabilities.…

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    be like to live in the dark forever without light? Helen Keller was a girl who was deaf and blind. Despite the odds, she overcame her disabilities and became a well known author and speaker. Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child on June 27, 1880. At 19 months old Helen became deaf and blind from rubella or scarlet fever, also known as brain fever. Helen grew into a wild and unruly child and had many tantrums. Her family thought she should be institutionalized. Helen’s mother…

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    Helen Keller: A Determined Woman Imagine being a normal young girl, who loved to dress up and play outside. Now visualize having everything you have ever known, taken away from you in an instant. What would you be like if you were trapped inside your own body? What would you do if you could not see or hear, or even communicate with the world around you? Many people would be easier to give up and never try again, but Helen Keller defied the odds. She achieved so many things throughout her life…

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    to allow a dream of fear or unkindness” (268). 2. Through her disability, Helen learned differently from other children. The narrator suggests “she has one advantage over ordinary children, that nothing from without distracts her attention from her studies” (274). 3. Miss Sullivan was particular about not emphasizing what Helen’s disabilities, and rather focused on what she could do. Miss Sullivan describes that “in selecting books for Helen to read, I have never chosen them with reference to…

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    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 and deaf person to do…

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    Helen Keller Struggles

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    Helen Keller did what most deem impossible. Being both deaf and blind, she learned how to communicate with others, speak, write, and eventually became a well renowned author, despite all her struggles and hardships in life. Helen Keller even states herself in chapter IV of The Story of My Life “The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.” Miss Sullivan brought language and communication to Helen any way she possibly could.…

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    Helen Keller A Strong Believer Strong, brave, and inspiring are three words that people think of when they hear the name Helen Keller. Helen Keller changed the world by being an inspiration to people all around the world. She showed the world that having a disability doesn’t stop you from doing great things. She proved this by becoming part of important organizations, going to college, and spreading her knowledge to the world in talks and lectures. She left a legacy as a strong believer. The…

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