An Essay About Helen Keller

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Hello. My name is Helen Keller. I was born on June 27th 1880, and passed away on June 1st 1968 at age eighty seven. I am best known for being the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. I owe all of my success to my teacher Anne Sullivan. She worked with me until I finally was able to understand and could communicate. She helped me to become a girl that later in life became successful author, political activist, and a lecturer. I was born in a homestead called Ivy Green that my grandfather had built many years ago. My fathers name was Arthur H. Keller and my mothers name was Kate Adams. I was born with the ability to see and hear, but at the age of nineteen months I got sick with “an acute congestions of the stomach and the brain.” This could have been anything from scarlet fever to a sickness like meningitis. This sickness left me both deaf and blind. At this point I was able to communicate with Martha Washington who was the six year old daughter of the family cook who understood sign language, but what she knew was very minor. In 1886 my mother got inspir...

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