What makes a person influential? Influential people make positive changes for others, are leaders, and set good examples for people to follow. Helen Keller is considered one of the most influential people because even though she had a disability and had to learn to work through it, she later became determined to learn about the world and she wanted to help improve the lives for others. Helen Keller once said “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do” (Keller). For example, she decided to teach the blind to be courageous and to make their lives successful, diligent, and significant for others and for themselves. Helen Keller has had an influence on society by becoming a role model for the deaf and blind. When she was 19 months she came down with an illness called “scarlet fever”. As a result of the illness, Helen Keller became blind and deaf, leaving her not able to see and hear. Many people didn’t believe in Helen Keller being able to learn, but she ended up proving everyone wrong. Later on in her life with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write and speak. Helen Keller once said “While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done” (Keller). Helen was born June 27, 1880 from a family of southern landowners with two older sisters in Tuscumbia Alabama. Kate and Arthur Keller found a young woman at the Perkins Institution to teach Helen how to communicate. A month later after Anne Sullivan’s arrival, she had already taught Helen at the age of six the word water and that words have a meaning. Once Helen learned to communicate with others by using ...
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...gh Keller had a disability, she was still determined to work hard and prove to people that she was abale to learn. Helen Keller was a person that never gave up or let herself down during hard times, and she strived to make a change for others.
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At first she was a little confused but then began to be more patient. The Character arc changes throughout the story in very slight ways. At first the narrator sounds playful and childish. However, getting towards the end of the story, the narrator becomes more patient and a little more mature.
For those who are not familiar with the story of Helen Keller or the play 'The Miracle Worker', it recalls the life of a girl born in 1880 who falls tragically ill at the young age of two years old, consequently losing her ability to hear, speak, and see. Helen's frustration grew along side with her age; the older she got the more it became apparent to her parents that she was living in more of an invisible box, than the real world. Her imparities trapped her in life that seemed unlivable. Unable to subject themselves to the torment which enveloped them; watching, hearing and feeling the angst which Helen projected by throwing plates and screaming was enough for them to regret being blessed with their own senses. The Kellers, in hopes of a solution, hired Anne Sullivan, an educated blind woman, experienced in the field of educating sensory disabilities arrived at the Alabama home of the Kellers in 1887. There she worked with Helen for only a little over a month attempting to teach her to spell and understand the meaning of words v. the feeling of objects before she guided Helen to the water pump and a miracle unfolded. Helen understood the juxtaposition of the touch of water and the actual word 'water' Anne spelled out on her hand . Helen suddenly began to formulate the word 'wa...
“It would have been difficult to find a happier child than I was as I lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me, and for the first time longed for a new day to come. I had now the key to all language, and I was eager to learn to use it” (Keller 146). The ability to actually comprehend words and associate those words to thoughts and feelings rejuvenated her. Keller was reborn that day, with a new ‘vision’ and a new direction. What started that day, culminated into Keller becoming the first deaf person to earn a bachelors degree. She learnt to speak and ‘hear’ by following the movements of people’s lips. Keller was extremely hardworking and she personified willpower and diligence by patiently untangling the taboos of society to prove her critics wrong.
Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was a bright infant, interested in everything around her, and imitating adults at a very young age. In February of 1882, she was struck with an illness which left her deaf and blind. For several years, Helen had very little communication with the rest of the world, except for a few signs which she used with her family. When she was six, her parents wanted desperately to do something to help their strong-willed, half-wild, child. They were far from any deaf or blind schools, and doubted that anyone would come to the little town to educate their deaf and blind child. They heard of a doctor in Baltimore who had helped many seemingly hopeless cases of blindness, but when he examined Helen, there was nothing he could do for her. However, he referred them to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell who recommended Anne Sullivan to teach Helen.
People all over the world are influential. These people in the world are inspiring to others to follow their dreams, stand up for what they believe in, and overcome obstacles in their life. An individual that shows these traits would be a young girl to help raise money for the survivors of hurricane Katrina, Talia Leman. Talia Leman is influential because of her accomplishments, her great character, and her heroic acts.
Little kids can get extremely excited at things sometimes, because they are easily amused. When Helen Keller was a child, one of the things that excited her and made her feel amused was when her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan came and taught her things. Little kids do not always get very happy about learning things, but Helen Keller was deaf and blind so learning new things amazed her. The events of this day and meeting Sullivan taught Keller many things that were life-changing for Keller, because of her disabilities.
The Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said, “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” Not everyone is always on the front lines in the battle of good versus evil. Ranks are filled with select soldiers that will take on the fight. Regardless, those willing to take the rough road, the steep hills, and the bad days are the ones that are truly filling the trenches. Anyone can be great; one way to acheive greatness is by studying this characteristic in others.
If I could ask Helen Keller one question, it would be how did she do it? She faced all the odds and lived a successful life despite the fact that she was blind and deaf. She inspired people to stand up for what they believe in and to stand up for themselves. She had a plan for America and it was to create a revolution and end the war.
In conclusion, Helen Keller is one of the most incredible women in the history of America. Keller overcame every obstacle in her path, no matter how difficult that proved to be. Despite the fact that she could not speak effectively, she continued to travel all over the country (and eventually the world) to hold seminars and speeches for women and people struggling in similar ways to her. I am amazed that Keller was able to leave such a strong footprint for women of the modern age to follow, and I believe that her opinions should still be followed today. Her beliefs of peace and equality are incredibly relevant to what America is facing today, and citizens of the United States should look to Keller to guide their own perspective.
Keller also states that “perhaps [she] beheld a brighter prospect than [her] companions with two good eyes” (Keller 739). With this statement she is saying even with a disability you are able to view things differently, she has a positive outlook on life. Even though her friends with two good eyes can physically see, they cannot imagine, or dream like she can. Helen Keller has vision but no sight.
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Helen is a deaf and blind women. She got to be deaf and daze when she was hit with a serious fever at 19 months old. Her family did not know how to manage her, she had numerous temper fits and was spoiled. Everything changed when her parents welcomed Annie Sullivan to help Helen. Annie taught Helen Sign Language through the procedure of making Helen touch certain things then spelling the name of the item in her hand.Helen then went to move numerous individuals through her written work and life story. Helen is my Hero in light of the fact that she battled through numerous challenges, and wound up on top and is a symbol for deaf and blind individuals all around. Helen was told often throughout her youth that she was not good enough and would never make it but rather she demonstrated every one of them to be wrong. Helen is inspiration to numerous individuals over the globe.
The beginning of her life began when she was first born on June 27, 1880, in a plantation known as Ivy Green located in Alabama. Keller was healthy and most found her attractive with curly, blond hair and pale blue eyes. (ww.nndb.com). Shortly after she began getting congested in the brain and stomach, Keller lost both her sight and her ability to hear. Doctors informed Kate Adams Keller, Helen Keller’s mother, she would not survive past the age of two years old. However, through hope and dedication, Kate Keller contacted a physician. He claimed he could be no help, and sent them to meet Alexander Graham Bell, who, in return, handed them off to Perkins Institute for the Blind. Director Michael Anagnos called a former student by the name of Anne Sullivan. Although Sullivan was also partially blind, she could still manage to help Helen Keller and Sullivan was brought home with her. After many months with no success, Sullivan led Keller to a water pump in the back yard. She ran the cold water over Keller’s hand as she made the hand signs spelling out w-a-t-e-r in Keller’s palm. Something invisible snapped inside Helen Keller and that is ...
Helen Keller is one of the most inspirational people ever. She has done amazing things in her life and with the American Foundation for the Blind. She accomplished many things that most people have not achieved in their lives. Helen Keller is and will always be remembered for her great actions.
The next 6 years of Helen’s life were spend in tantrums, darkness and all around loneliness. “I got used to the silence and darkness that surrounded me and forgot it had ever been different, until she came- my teacher” (Keller 1902 Pg. 8). She had many fits, and refused any instruction. Her family was very poor, and could afford very little. The “teacher” as Helen called her; was Anne Sullivan who had contracted trachoma as a child and was as well legally blind. Annie was said to have saved Helen. Within 6 months of teaching from Sullivan Keller quickly advanced. She became well known to reading and writing in Braille, as well as writing in a manual alphabet.