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    Balyan01 Introduction Helen Adams Keller was an American creator, political dissident and a speaker. She was the primary hard of hearing visually impaired individual to acquire a Bachelor of Arts degree. The account of how Keller's instructor, Anne Sullivan, got through the disconnection forced by a close entire absence of dialect, permitting to bloom into the praiseworthy arrangement of dauntlessness, has been generally appeared and known through the performances of the play and film, The…

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    The characters of William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker reveal the experience of children with disabilities second hand and the influence it has on their relationships. Helen Keller is a deaf and blind mute, isolated in her own world, unable to communicate with others; it’s possible she lost her sight and hearing as a result of an acute congestion. She’s “quite unkempt, attractive but noticeably blind, with one eye larger and protruding” whereas her gestures are abrupt, incessant and “lack human…

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    Helen Keller was born a perfectly normal child. Everything changed in her life when she was almost 2 years old. She was diagnosed with “an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain” This left her blind and deaf permanently. Helen Keller was a very strong person because she was able to overcome so much. Helen was an independent, determined, and kind women, Helen Keller was a very independent person. She left her house with Anne Sullivan (her teacher) before she was even able to go to school…

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    without hope and confidence”(Helen Keller). These words of wisdom are just one of the many reasons why Helen Keller is such an amazing hero. Even in the most challenging of times, Helen always stayed optimistic and confident. Despite the fact that Helen Keller was both blind and deaf, she has inspired thousands of people throughout the world to chase their dreams, even if they are struggling with life-threatening disabilities. In the year of 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen Keller came into…

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    would be without it. Many of us do not realize the struggles that come with such physical limitations; what if we had to live without sight and hearing? We would have to rely solely on our other senses to manage. This was the life of Helen Keller. At 19 months, Helen Keller contracted a disease, thought to be scarlet fever, that left her blind and deaf (2). At a young age her parents were not able to provide much support for her disabilities and she had little help throughout her childhood (1).…

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    challenge every single day of their life. It is completely inevitable and you can’t live a life with a free pass from personal struggles! Like many other I have many challenges of my own. The challenge I want to tell you about, and I think relates me to Helen Keller is that I can not express my feelings when I talk to people. The reason I say this relates me to her is because all my life people have been trying to get through to me to see how I’m feeling. I have never been able to tell them. All…

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    Helen Keller, one of the most inspiring women in American history, proved to the world that having a disability does not prevent a person from influencing society or being successful. At a young age, Helen Keller was deprived of her sight and hearing, but with the assistance of Anne Sullivan, Helen gained an exceptional education. By having a greater understanding of disabilities, she was able to make her mark on the world by helping the disabled. The efforts of Helen Keller had a positive…

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    Miracle Worker Thesis

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    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…

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    Optimism Test

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    “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…

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    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…

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