Video Reaction Paper #1: The Miracle Worker: Helen Keller This movie gave me a small insight about how deaf/ blind people were treated back in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Annie Sullivan often recalls her childhood which was spent with her brother in a state institution called almhouses. These were disease ridden‚ rat infested places people got sent to when no one wanted to care for them either because they were disabled or sick and dieing in some way. She talks about how horrid the
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the doll. Doll.”(qtd. 146 The Miracle Worker) Annie even not forgot teach Helen how to spell “ink” when Helen knocks over the inkwell while she wrote a letter. Annie lives with Helen in the garden house and teaches her everyday. The last day of two week training‚ Helen played with the dog‚ Annie touched Helen’s to the dog. Helen dutifully pats the dog’s head and spell “water” with her hand. Annie rectify this mistake by let Helen touch the water. (193 The Miracle Worker) Kate came to garden house
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I will be writing an essay on The Miracle Worker‚ and it is about when and how Helen Keller got help from Annie Sullivan‚ and eventually learned to speak (sign language‚ deaf alphabet‚ and letters in her hands). Overall‚ speaking as a deaf and blind and mute girl‚ you can guess it would be pretty difficult‚ even for the family‚ because they have to deal with a child that has temper tantrums when she doesn’t get what she wants. In the book a few characters look different then they were described
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In the play the Miracle Worker by William Gibson‚ we see a young girl who is deaf‚ blind and mute. This play was very popular so they decided to make a movie out of it. There were many differences from the play to the movie. Here are some examples‚ I thought Helen was going to be younger‚ I did not think that Helen was as bright and intelligent as she is‚ and I thought Annie’s teaching skills were very different from what I imagined in the play. I pictured Helen being younger in the play
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5 Paragraph Assignments 1. The American Revolution resulted in a Democratic government based on popular sovereignty while the French Revolution resulted in a popular authoritarianism under Napoleon Bonaparte. The U.S. Constitution is focused on representation‚ electoral procedures‚ limited executive powers‚ and the equality of the federal and state governments. In 1799 the French Directory‚ established during revolutionary unrest to represent the people‚ was toppled by a young general‚ Napoleon
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Five Paragraph Essay Women today are facing some of the same problems that those women of the 1800’s tried to overcome. Equality for women! Many women today find themselves in the position to make career changes due to family shifts‚ a lack of education‚ or a failing economy. Many women during the 20th century left behind their careers to be married and raise children. But in the 1970s divorce rates reached an all time high‚ leaving women to raise children on their own and go back into the
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Miracle at Philadelphia By: Catherine Drinker Bowen Joseph Winker 3/5/05 Miracle at Philadelphia is a book about the Constitutional Convention in the United States. The chapters are arranged in the order that the events happened during the convention. Mrs. Bowen‚ the author‚ made the events and the people of the convention seem more interesting than I thought they would be. There are many things that I really enjoyed reading in my book. Some of those things would have to be just how
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This essay that i am about to type is about my experience in ELA.This will also be about what I do and don’t liked to do in ELA. This essay is going to be 5 paragraphs long so get you reading eyes ready. Once you are done reading this essay you will know my likes and dislikes about ELA. I like writing poems and reading books that are interesting. They can be about 250 to 400 pages long.I will read them in approximately about almost 2 hours. I also like the fun of learning new words.My last year in
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“Now all i have to teach you is one word - everything” - Annie Sullivan. The Miracle Worker By William Gibson is a realistic play about perseverance that is based on Helen Keller learning how to communicate without sight hearing or speech. Helen Keller was a normal baby until her parents realized that was blind and deaf. They suffered with not disciplining her so she had no manners and couldn’t learn until Annie Sullivan came to try and teach her how to act‚ talk‚ and live. The theme of never
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