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    Can you imagine a world with no sound? Nothing to see either? Helen Kellers world was like this for most of her life. Yet Helen Keller was an inspirational woman through out her entire life, despite her disabilities. Most of it due to her hard work and dedication to others with disabilities. Helen Keller's first few years shaped the rest of her life to what it was, and it wasn't the best few years. Helen Adam Keller was born July 27,1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her parents, Kate & Arthur…

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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 is given barriers throughout her life due to her lack of sight and hearing, but in her autobiography, The Story of My Life, she tells the tale of a girl who refuses to bow down to any barrier. As a young child, Helen "overcomes suicidal urges and months of self-imposed silence" until she is ready to open herself up to the world again (Snodgrass). The many hardships she and her family go through together only result in making Helen, and her bond with her teacher Anne Sullivan,…

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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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    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…

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    Helen Keller Helen Keller is one of the most inspiring woman in the blind and deaf community. Becoming blind and deaf at the age of 19 months by an unknown illness, her life was turned around. Although, she didn’t let her difficulties take over. Helen defeated the odds and learned more than anyone could've imagined. She even graduated and decided to inspire others by writing a book about her life. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 In Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen had a normal childhood until…

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    can endure as an American citizen. For Helen Keller, Malcolm X and Christine Marín, it was, and there are extraordinary similarities despite their extremely different situations. Helen Keller was an upper class deaf and blind girl living in America during a time where handicapped people were dehumanized and negatively looked upon. She was taught to read and write three months shy of her seventh birthday by Ms.Sullivan. Before learning these skills, Helen was emotionally detached to the…

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    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…

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    felt with the heart.” Helen Keller said these words because she was blind and deaf, therefore she could only feel things. So while other people was seeing the beauty of the world Helen was feeling the beauty of the world.Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Tuscmbia,AL. Helen Keller is considered one of the leading figures in the twentieth century. She lost both her vision and hearing when she was 19 months old due to illness. At the time, doctors called it brain fever. Helen Keller helped to…

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    achieved their version of the American Dream. One of those people is a man by the name of Chris Gardner. Chris Gardner was someone who was a single father and lived a very impoverished life. Another person who achieved the American Dream was Helen Keller. Helen Keller is a girl who got a fever when she was young and went permanently deaf, and blind because of it. Finally, another person who successfully achieved the American Dream was Paige Rawl. Paige Rawl is someone who found out that she was…

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