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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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    Annie keeps Helen until six‚ (which is the exact time that they had planned on before) desperately trying to get Helen to move past the games and move into understanding‚ but we continue as Helen remains unwavering‚ while Annie grow frustrated and nearly breaks down. Once returned back to her home‚ Helen regains control. Despite Anne’s warnings that she’s just testing them‚ and the family’s assertions that they wouldn’t indulge in her little games‚ they start to baby her again‚ and Anne watches

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    The Miracle Worker Essay In the movie The Miracle Worker‚ Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan had a special relationship. There are so many examples where Annie changed Helen’s life so many times‚ in so many ways. Helen Keller was a blind and deaf spoiled little girl. She had free rein of the house‚ her mother and father‚ the staff and even the food that was on the plates of others. Once Annie arrived as a new tutor/ teacher‚ many things changed including the way Helen communicated‚ Helen’s view

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    Miracle Some might say that to live the American dream u have a fancy house‚ job‚ cars and family. In reality the American dream can be expressed in a number of ways. Many say that through hard work and dedication these goals of the American dream can be fulfilled. This is shown in [The Great Gatsby]‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also in the movie “Miracle” where the main Character‚ Herb Brooks does anything that he could to achieve that ultimate goal of the American dream by showing Change‚ Determination

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    those very well known people would be Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. They were part of the story‚ “The Miracle Worker”‚ which was the struggle of Anne teaching Helen how to function the right way and have a normal life through her disabilities. Helen was not just blind‚ she was also deaf. Anne Sullivan had been the instructor or of Helen at the time. Reading the play script‚ “The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson (Acts 1-2)‚ I can tell that Helen was not that easy to teach until Anne had separated

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    Critically assess Wittgenstein’s belief that language games allow religious statements to have meaning. (35 marks) In his early work‚ Tractatus Logico‚ Wittgenstein identified a link between language and reality and put forward the ‘picture theory of language.’ In this theory‚ he stated language could only be meaningful if one had a mental image which corresponded to it. However this theory faced religious criticism as it meant that discussions surrounding God were both meaningless and impossible

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    Philosophy- “A belief in miracles leads to the concept of a god who favors some but not all his creation” The problem with miracles is that it cannot be properly defined which means there is no absolute meaning for a meaning‚ instead my philosophers have attempted to define miracles in their own way. In these definition they are usually for or against the existence of miracles‚ for example take two contrasting definitions Ward and Hume. Ward says miracles are events which god intervenes because

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    Abstract Asian miracle was the most spectacular period that saw the Asian continent turned into a powerhouse. There were similarities in the factors that led to growth in the economies key among them being innovation‚ entrepreneurship and good policies adopted the governments in place in ensuring the continuity of the upward trend in economic growth. There were differences especially in strategies adopted by different countries in the region especially on matters pertaining to trade and education

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