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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart”. Helen Keller said this when she was trying to explain that even though some people can’t see you can still see the beauty in life.Even when your just touching it because even with touch you can kind of recognize what your touching.An that the world is also good being viewed without using your eyes.An that maybe when meeting new people you can get a better sense of what they may look like or what there personality is more like and don’t just them by the way they look.

On June 27, 1880, a baby girl named Helen Keller was born in the city of Tuscumbia,Alabama.When Keller was about 19 months old she became sick with a disease that …show more content…

By the 1888 Helen had learned to read using Braille,Helen also had a second teacher whose name was Anne Mansfield Sullivan who taught Helen until her death. At the age of 20 years old Helen was able to enter the Radcliffe college, she received her bachelor’s degree in 1904 with honors.Helen helped to found the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind and served on the commission.Keller raised more money for the American Foundation for the Blind than any other person. She lectured widely and received honors and awards from foreign governments and international bodies. By 87 Helen had wrote her own autobiography titled The Story Of My Life.

Helen used textbooks in braille,and Sullivan attended classes with her,spelling the lectures into her hand. Keller’s writing reveals her interest in the beauty of things taken for granted by those who can see and hear. Helen Keller wrote so many books some of the books The World I Live In 1908,Out of the Dark 1913,Optimism 1903,Midstream:My Later Life 1929,Journal 1938,and Let Us Have Faith 1940. These books that she wrote inspired so many kids that suffered from hearing and seeing disability. Keller’s writing reveals her interest in the beauty of things taken for granted by those who can see and

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