Helen Mirren

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…

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” That is a quote from Helen Keller who is the face of Optimism to a lot of people. Being the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, she shows that no matter what your disabilities in life are you can overcome the obstacles and do anything you want. Just like Helen Keller, I myself try to look at the bright side of every dark situation, or even every positive situation. In this…

Dorothy Hamill: A Life of Hardship Inspires Others Dorothy Hamill faced many challenges in her life. There is so much more to her story than just her fame from the Olympics. Dorothy Hamill is an inspiration to all women because she won an Olympic gold medal for figure skating, conquered breast cancer, and shared her experience with chronic depression. Hamill’s Olympic journey was quite a success. According to the information presented on the Biography.com website, Hamill began skating at age…

Mount St. Helen's is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range in Skamania County, Washington and is part of the Ring of Fire centered around the Pacific Ocean. Mount St. Helen's was created when the oceanic Jean de Fuca plate subducted beneath the North American Plate and has a long history of eruptive periods followed lengthy dormancies. Her volcanic activity was marked by thousands of years of lava and pyroclastic flows only to fall silent and then reawaken to begin her destructive cycle…

Can you imagine what our former president, William Taft, had to yell when he got stuck in the white house bath tub? Well we may never know, but we can learn about Taft, his presidency, and the life in 1908. The life of William Howard Taft was a very simple, yet very impressive. He accomplished alot throughout his life. Which all started September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati Ohio.(Biography.com) Since Taft was one of the earlier presidents he had a lot of firsts that other presidents didn't get to…

Although there are many famous Arkansans, Helen Marie Gurley Brown was one of the most influential and meaningful women of the 20th century. American writer, Helen Brown, lived a fulfilled life as a successful editor-in-chief, author, advice-giver, and loving wife. Even though Helen Brown has since then died, she has still maintained to influence and inspire feminists on into the 21st century. Helen Marie Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Arkansas, on February 18, 1922. Her parents were…

beneficial then what I traditionally see with Cosmopolitan magazine. Cosmopolitan magazine has a very interesting history as it was initially realized in 1886 and was considered a family magazine. In the 1960’s it eventually became a women’s magazine. Helen Gurley Brown became chief editor in 1965 and reinvented it for single career women. Brown set the magazine apart from others by openly discussing sexuality from the point of view that women could enjoy sex without guilt. Today…

in the world, like Helen Keller, lack the ability to see and hear. In her lifetime and beyond, Helen Keller has helped to bring awareness to the deaf-blind community. However, she never had many of the experiences or opportunities that the majority of the population does because of the handicap that burdened her at just 19 months of age. For many, losing the ability to see and hear can be detrimental if he or she does not accommodate their daily life to their situation. For Helen Keller, she was…

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…

Marys Peak - Fir Forests Lindsay Liddell FES 342 Professor Matthew Powers MWF 10-11am Due: 10/19/15 Marys Peak is a mountain in Benton County, Oregon. At the top of the peak, on a clear day, one can see the cities of the Willamette Valley, the Cascade Range, and the Pacific Ocean. It is known for its meadows of wildflowers in spring and its fir forests uniquely populated with noble firs (Abies procera). Little data is available regarding the trees age, but there is clear variance in age,…