Helen Keller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence” Helen Keller, author, humanitarian, and lecturer once said. Many Americans may be unaware on the true impact she left on the women’s rights movement. Keller pursued life as an avid activist promoting, humanitarian beliefs, education, and women’s suffrage. Keller published an essay, “Why Men Need Woman Suffrage” in 1913. She targets men as her main audience hoping to broaden their minds to realize…

Vision And Sight; Incommensurable Concepts Vision and Sight are two vastly separate and dissimilar notions; sight being the understanding of sight in regard to a visual appeal; vision being an individual's ability to have greater knowledge of the future or more vast concepts; a prime example of this is Oedipus from the play write Oedipus Rex and his lack of vision; its is an ideal illustration of why vision is more crucial than sight. Vision is a concept that not many individuals…

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”. These words by Helen Keller are true for the two main characters George and Lennie in John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck friendship plays a major role throughout the story. The novel takes place in Salinas, California during a time of suffering, The Great Depression. Migrant workers George and Lennie are the main characters that have a very symbiotic friendship.…

school and for my English class I had to read a book and give a presentation over it. I have not been able to read a book cover to cover that I have chosen in almost two years, but in my summer school English class I read “The Story of My Life” By Helen Keller, and read the full book within a few weeks. Reading “Looking for Alaska” and “The Story of My Life” both got me more interested in reading, so I went back to reading “Crank”. When I started reading again, I would read at my brothers…

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens,” as stated by Helen Keller, “but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Keller’s quote reflects her optimistic opinion on real-life situations, in which are resembled by the “opened” and “closed” doors. Keller explains that people are constantly having new opportunities opened up to them, but they continue to fight for the opportunity that may be out of reach. Happiness in life can be…

adapt to the world if they are born blind, and is it the same way people that have an accident or disease that caused their blindness later on in life adapt? We know that people have overcome their disabilities to do great things for instance Hellen Keller who was born a deaf/blind/mute went on to become famous and Ray Charles who went blind due to Glaucoma went on to become a famous musician. I did some research into all of the senses and tried to figure out what affect they had in our lives…

Helen Keller once said, “I think the degree of a nation’s civilization may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.(“All”).” Women in different societies want and need different things. They also need and want some of the same things. The western society views the Egyptian role of women oppressing because of the Egyptian modest dress and view women are pressured into wearing. For some women this fashion is empowering and being a housewife is a desired occupation. This idea to…

The Paradox of consciousness “The state of being awake and aware of one’s surrounding”. Is a pretty lackadaisical term for such a fruitful word. In a world where simple and basic is better than the extravagant and lavishness of life is somewhat of a paradox. To completely understand the term consciousness you have to dig into the roots of the term and by your own experiences to best comprehend this paradox. Consciousness is best understood by each individual's interpretations of the word. The…

My personal philosophy of education as an educator is to create a classroom that makes students feel wanted. All children need someone in their lives that they can count on. They need that person that they know will be there for them and someone they can look up to. I believe I can be that person. My classroom will encourage happiness, friendship, growth, and safety. Happiness will encourage students to come to class excited to learn with me and alongside their peers. Friendships will be the…

etc. Anything deemed as a threat or opposed theirs beliefs were eliminated from society. May 10th 1933 is significant day in Hitler’s rise as this was the day the party set out to burn the majority of the books, libraries and schools were raided. Helen Keller a famous american novelist stated “Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas”, burning of books was a clear violation of their freedom of speech. He determined that the one thing the german people all had in common was the hatred of the…