Helen Keller's Role Model The World

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Helen Keller is the greatest role model the world has seen. Helen was born on June 27, 1880, and died on June 1, 1968. She showed us that we can do or be anything, be persistent in the times we feel like giving up, can write masterpieces in any circumstance, even blindness and she stood up for the deaf, the blind, women's rights and anti-racism. Helen was the first blind or deaf person to earn a college degree and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom award on September 14, 1964. Through her great teacher Anne Sullivan, she was able to ‘see and hear’ in her silent, black world and become an American hero who became a great role model for many. Helen is absolutely the greatest role model the world has seen.

The first reason that Helen Keller is the most inspiring role model of all time, is that she never gave up despite being blind and deaf, she stayed persistent and patient, this is a quality everyone needs. Helen was only 19 months when she caught a disease which was thought to be either scarlet fever or meningitis which caused her to become deaf and blind. This caused lots of trouble because she lost all capabilities of communication and became upset and tempered. Anne came to teach her when she was 6. Helen struggled but she pressed on …show more content…

Helen was actually born with both sight and hearing. She learned to talk when she was only 6 months old but she lost all sense of communication when she was 19 months old, yet was able to become a famous role model for everyone. After her tragic loss, she became ‘an unruly wild creature with no sight or hearing’ but she never gave up and became a proper young lady who could talk properly and get a college degree. Helen was even able to travel to 39 countries including Chile, Korea, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Syria, and Yugoslavia. Even now you can look back and be inspired by what Helen achieved after all her

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