heroine- Helen Keller Helen Keller born June 27, 1880 was an American author,and political activist. However, what makes her different is she was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.[ The life of Helen Keller". Royal National Institute of Blind People. November 20, 2008. Accessed November 9, 2015 ] she was born with full sight and hearing, however Helen fell ill from possibly scarlet fever or meningitis. It was after her illness that her mother realised that Helen…
Helen Keller lived an extraordinary and wonderful life. She never gave up on anything in life, and she always kept trying. In the book, Helen Keller: A Determined Life, Helen stated, “We can do anything we want to do, if we stick to it long enough.” All Helen wanted was to live a normal life, and to have no one think less of her. We should all try to emulate her example of determination and dedication. She is an excellent role model to anyone who thinks they should give up or stop trying. She is…
The story of Helen Keller’s life has affected and motivated me deeply to write my thesis. Helen Keller had been stricken by an illness that left her blind and deaf when she was 19 months old. She had terrible temper tantrums during her childhood since the need of some means of communication became so urgent. Helen said that her most important day in her all life was the day her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, joined Helen’s life to teach her how to communicate by spelling words on her hand.…
When Helen was only a baby the doctors realized that she was blind and deaf. There was little hope she would ever be able to communicate with others. Thankfully, her teacher Anne Sullivan, was able to teach Helen how to “talk” with her hands. Anne taught Helen how to spell using her fingers. Through the process of teaching Helen Keller how to “speak”, Helen would become frustrated, wanting to give up. Yet, both the teacher and Helen never gave up on each other or themselves…
For Helen Keller, the most important day to her was when her teacher Miss. Sullivan first tried to communicate with her. From 18 months old to that day very few people knew where to begin when trying to communicate with a little girl that was deaf and blind. Little did Helen know her teacher was going to teach her seven year old self how to communicate with others. In the continuing paragraphs when she begins to explain the story, if you didn't know any background information on Helen Keller, it…
Helen Keller, a woman who at a very young age, had to adapt to a whole new way of life, and no one around her knew about it.” Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880,” Helen was a healthy newborn until the age of “nineteen months” when she developed an illness which led to the loss of her sight and hearing. Because of this, her parents didn’t know what the next step to take was so she could be led down the right path. Eventually they found a woman named Anne Sullivan who could potentially…
Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on 27 June 1880. Her parents are Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. When Hellen was 19 months old, she had a disease that makes her blind and deaf. Helen becomes frustrated because she was difficult to communicate with others, then she is often angry and difficult to teach. In 1886 his parents took Helen to Baltimore, Maryland to meet a specialist Dr. J. Julian Chisolm. Then he recommended that Helen is taken to meet Alexander Graham…
Helen Keller was an influential person because even she overcame an illness that left her blind and deaf and became a strong, independent woman. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. In Tuscumbia, Alabama and was the first two daughters born to Arthur H (Source 1 ). Helen Keller's family was not very wealthy. they earned money from there families cotton farm/plantation. (Source 4) In 1882 Helen at 19 months old got a disease called brain fever. She lost her sight and…
Helen Keller was a strong person who was deaf, and blind. She was a very healthy baby until she reached to be about 19 months old. Helen Keller then became really ill, she got a high fever. (Shichtman 2). Her family and her discovered that she has acute congestion of the stomach and brain and that she was most likely to die. Helen didn't die from the fever, it left her as soon as they found out what she had come down with. (Shichtman 2) Although the disease did some massive damage on her…
Helen Keller was an educator, journalist, activist, humanitarian, and author. She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in the year 1880 and died in 1968 at the age of 87. Helen Keller was not only blind but deaf as well. She went blind, deaf, and mute at eighteen months after becoming ill. At the time, doctors said that Keller contracted an illness called “brain fever.” Now specialists believe that it may have been scarlet fever or meningitis. Although Helen was diagnosed with these disabilities, she…