Surviving Disability General Purpose: to inform Specific Purpose: I want to inform my audience about Helen Keller Thesis Statement: Helen Keller is an admirable person because she was a hard worker‚ had a positive outlook on life and she was the first deaf/blind American to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree Imagine waking up‚ not being able to see or hear‚ living your life in a dark and silent world. Helen Keller was one of them. She may be misfortunate for losing her ability to see and hear. However
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Helen Adams Keller (June 27‚ 1880 - June 1‚ 1968) was born in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama‚ USA. When she was 19 months old‚ Helen was struck with a fever and became both deaf and blind. The lively child changed into a little wild ’animal’ who terrorised the people around her. In 1887‚ her parents‚ Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller‚ finally contacted Alexander Graham Bell‚ who worked with deaf children. He advised them to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown‚ Massachusetts. They delegated
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Helen Keller Her life and legacy "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done‚ it was done." -Helen Keller Hailan El-Naas Grade 9A April 28‚ 2013 Table of Contents 1. Outline 1 2. Introduction
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HELEN KELLER Like Topac kapur and emily dickinson‚ Helen keller also overcome adversity in her life.She was born on June 27‚ 1880 in tuscumbia. At the age of 19 months‚ she got a very bad fever which left her blind and deaf. Because of his deaf and blindness‚ she couldn’t communicate with anybody. Her parents were very worried about their daughter. They took her to Baltimore to a doctor. From there‚ helen keller got
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Helen Keller At the age of eighteen months‚ Helen Keller (1880-1968) lost her sight and hearing as a result of illness. During the next five years of her childhood‚ Keller became increasingly wild and unruly as she struggled against her dark and silent world. In “The Day Language Came into My Life‚” Keller remembers how‚ at age seven‚ her teacher‚ Anne Sullivan‚ arrived and taught her the miracle of language. The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher
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	Imagine a life without being able to see or hear and not knowing how to communicate with anyone around you. That world of darkness is what Helen Keller lived in for six years. Helen Keller has been an inspiration to people ever since she turned six. From 1886-1960‚ she proved herself to be a creative and inspiring woman of America. She was a writer and lecturer who fought for the rights of disadvantaged people all over the world. Most importantly‚ she overcame her two most difficult obstacles
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dark tunnel. In “Three Days to See” by Helen Keller the author in a descriptive manner goes through three days vividly explaining the sights she wanted to see and explore had she gained her vision for the allotted time. “Helen Keller was born in sweet home Alabama in 1880. In the small town of Tuscumbia at nineteen months old Helen fell very sick” (Keller 210) . Though the sickness that ailed her had passed rather quickly‚ it left her permanently blind. I feel as if Helen Keller overcame the most adversity
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How Helen Keller Inspired the World The contributions that Helen Keller gave to the world of the blind and deaf are unforgettable. They continue to this day to influence many people throughout their daily lives. Many of those people are those who are not affected by blindness or deafness‚ but are regular people who became influenced with Helen Keller’s miracle story. Helen Keller has taught me many things about life‚ and how to live it. She has taught me how to not worry about the little things
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Summary of Helen Keller: The Story of My Life For my personal choice book I have chosen Helen Keller: The Story of My Life‚ by James Berger. I chose this book because it was very interesting to read about how her education developed throughout her life. It was also fascinating to know how she learned to understand what people were saying because she wrote how sometimes she would place her fingers on their lips and would discover what they were saying from the movements of their lips. At other times
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Helen Keller Helen Keller was an author‚ lecturer‚ and crusader for the handicapped. Born physically normal in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama‚ Keller lost her sight and hearing at the age of nineteen months to an illness now believed to have been scarlet fever. Five years later‚ on the advice of Alexander Graham Bell‚ her parents applied to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston for a teacher‚ and from that school hired Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Through Sullivan’s extraordinary instruction‚ the little
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