Helen Keller

First of all, The Miracle Worker by William Gibson is about a girl named Helen Keller a deaf, blind, and mute girl. Her parents hire Annie Sullivan from the Perkins Institute to teach Helen how to speak proper words, how to spell, and be proper. It isn't easy to teach Helen these things and patience is definitely key in the play. Many of the characters in the novel experience struggles and are determined to overcome them. Every person has hardships in their life that knock them down multiple…

A hero is a person who is admired for bravado, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Helen Keller is a woman who was struck with a ‘brain disease’ when she was an adolescent and became blind, deaf, and mute (Helen Keller Biography). Odysseus is a fictional character in the Odyssey, who was deserted on an island by Zeus after making the great god feel inferior. Both are heroes who have gone through extraordinary expeditions, which we call the heroes journeys. A hero’s journey is when…

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…

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,…

and every difficulty has an opportunity.” Helen Keller and Frank McCourt can be shown as the best examples. Almost all people know about them because they could overcome their hardships, and they give both psychological and emotional support to the handicapped people. Though Helen Keller and Frank McCourt have different family…

Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it” (BrainyQuote). Helen Keller was someone who overcame the troubles that she faced in her life. Helen lost her ability to hear or see due to a sickness that nearly killed her when she was a baby. With the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, Helen learned words and this eventually helped her to have a great career as an author. Before the arrival of Ms. Sullivan, Helen was a wild child and…

I have chosen to read and write about the children’s book “Helens Big World: The Life of Helen Keller” written by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Matt Tavares. This book explicitly talks about disability and how the main character in the story, Helen Keller, persevered through her struggle of being deafblind. This story gives children who read this book insight on how there are people in the world different and the same as them that can be considered heroes. The story doesn’t explicitly…

thrill and glory of freedom, be a pessimist?” This is a quote by Helen Keller from her 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…

It was very hard to decide which four author’s I wanted to write about. I narrowed it down by the unique and special traits they each have. My four authors I picked to write about are Anthony Burgess, Louise Erdrich, Lorraine Hansberry, and Helen Keller. All of the authors come from different backgrounds and have very interesting poems, and unique trades in their life. Out of the four authors I picked, I only knew one of the four and decided to choose three other authors with totally different…

Jen Bricker can be such an inspiration. She did things that even people with legs can't do. imagine doing gymnastics with no legs. Helen Keller once wrote "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” The story "The Amazing Powers Of Jen Bricker" by Kristen Lewis can show what that quote means because Jen Bricker has no legs but she still looked past it and she could do gymnastics. So did the poem "Can't" by Edgar Albert Guest because when people think they can’t, they have to…