Macy Gray

Anne Sullivan’s Influence On America Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, better known as Anne Sullivan, was born in Feeding Hills, MA on April 14th, 1860 to Irish immigrants Alice and Thomas Sullivan. Her family was very impoverished and did not have the means to give Anne a normal life. Her early childhood was rough. She suffered from a rare illness that almost blinded her eyes. Her mother died and left Anne and her two siblings to an abusive father. Luckily, Anne’s father abandoned them and…

Helen Keller: A Determined Woman Imagine being a normal young girl, who loved to dress up and play outside. Now visualize having everything you have ever known, taken away from you in an instant. What would you be like if you were trapped inside your own body? What would you do if you could not see or hear, or even communicate with the world around you? Many people would be easier to give up and never try again, but Helen Keller defied the odds. She achieved so many things throughout her life…

SYNTHESIS ESSAY – RESPONDING TO LITERATURE. 1. With that two (or three) narratives do you plan to interact? a. Helen Keller – Everything Has a Name. b. Frederick Douglass – Learning to Read and Write. c. Myself. 2. What possible points of comparison do you plan to use when uniting the stories? Story 1: In the Helen Keller story, a deaf and blind girl who grew up not understanding the meaning of the words; which she learned vividly. Keller overcomes her biggest obstacle; experiencing new…

Born in the late 1800s Helen Keller was, the impossible becoming possible. Helen Keller was known for her political, and social influences; and by using critical thinking she was able to overcome her deafness, and blindness. “When Keller was 19 months old, she was afflicted by an unknown illness, possibly scarlet fever or meningitis, which left her deaf and blind.”(McGinnity, Seymour-Ford, & Andries, 2004) Helen Keller spent her early childhood in complete darkness. Becoming frustrated, and…

Martin Schmalz-Dr. Anadale-Contemporary Philosophy-4/06/16 Helen Keller & Sokolowski’s Phenomenology Helen Keller’s amazing story of how she came to understand language is portrayed in The Miracle Worker. Her teacher Anne Sullivan helped deaf and blind Helen to enter into the world of “linguistic reasoning” and ultimately helped her on her path to becoming the first deaf and blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree (79). The scene in The Miracle Worker in which Helen comes to understand the…

Helen Keller was a blind and deaf girl from Tuscumbia Alabama. Helen was blind and deaf from the age of nineteen months. When Helen was a child, she was out of control and acted animal-like. Helen was set up to be unsuccessful in the conditions that she was under as a child. At the age of five, Annie Sullivan came to Helen's home in Alabama. Annie taught and mentored Helen throughout her life. Annie helped set Helen up for success in her future. Helen Keller made an abundance of great…

Helen Keller was a blind and deaf woman who was born and lived in Tuscumbia Alabama. She was born in 1880 and died in 1968. Keller was considered one of the world’s leading humanitarians and was a famous author and activist. Her experiences from a small baby helped shape the person Helen Keller would later become. She was motivated by these experiences to make a difference for others. Her accomplishments are historically important because they have become a model for others with disabilities.…

Often times, people take their privileges for granted. When an average person wakes up in the morning to the sound of birds chirping and the sight of sunlight shining through his or her bedroom window, he or she may be oblivious to how others 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…

1. The narrator describes Helen’s behavior as being very ‘natural’ and her “heart is too full of selfishness and affection to allow a dream of fear or unkindness” (268). 2. Through her disability, Helen learned differently from other children. The narrator suggests “she has one advantage over ordinary children, that nothing from without distracts her attention from her studies” (274). 3. Miss Sullivan was particular about not emphasizing what Helen’s disabilities, and rather focused on what she…

Hearing the story of Alex Dixon was not only extraordinary, but also motivating because she shows how a person with special needs can succeed and exceed expectations. As Alex spoke to the audience, one of the phrases she repeated was that she was capable of doing things she used to prior to her stroke, but it took longer than before. Not only did her positive attitude and motivation make a huge difference in her rehabilitation, but her family’s support and persistence carried her further than…