Helen Keller was born Helen Adams Keller on June 27, 1980 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her parents’ names were Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller; she was the first of two daughters that the couple had. Helen’s family wasn’t from the wealthy class, but earned most of their profits from their cotton plantation that they owned. Helen was born a healthy baby at first being able to see, hear, and even speak by the time she was six months old. Later on in 1882, she got sick which left her blind, death, and mute (biography.com). Her family doctor said it was “brain fever” which caused her to have a high temperature, but it was unclear what type of illness she had. It was possible she had a case of scarlet fever or meningitis that left her permanently …show more content…
There she began to meet influential people from all backgrounds and one of them happened to be the writer, Mark Twain (biography.com). Later on, she was accepted into Radcliffe because Twain’s friend Henry H. Rogers paid for admissions because he was impressed with her talents. At Radcliffe, she became the first deaf and blind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude (afb.org). Keller wrote her first book, “The Story of My Life” by the help of Sullivan and Sullivan’s husband. Her book, “The Story of My Life” discussed her transformation from childhood to becoming a 21 year old college student …show more content…
Through her profession as a writer, she would talk with other Americans and many around the world. Helen, as a writer, would use her skills to speak truth to power (afb.org). She also was a pacifist who would protest the United States’ involvement in World War II. She was a committed socialist who worked towards fighting for workers’ rights. Helen would also advocate for women’s suffrage and was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union (afb.org). In the American Civil Liberties Union, she helped to bring awareness, money and support for the blind (biography.com). Helen wanted to know more about the world and improve the lives of others. She started lecturing about her life experiences and working with the disabled. She even testified in front of Congress on behalf of the blind people’s welfare (biography.com). Helen cofounded the Helen Keller International in 1915 to help fight the causes and consequences of being blind and malnutrition
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.
One of the things I found to be the most astounding about Helen Keller was how many organizations she had a hand in founding. To start, her own organization, Helen Keller International, was founded by Keller and George Kessler in 1915. This organization was focused on Keller's yearning to help others with vision problems, as well as other health issues. (Keller, My Later Life 123)Scarlet fever is now thought to be the culprit that took the young girl's sight and hearing at only 19 months of age (Keller, The Story of My Life 16). In her later years, Keller became a strong political activist, an author, and a lecturer. After overcoming her own impairment, she sought to help others with similar disabilities, concocting speeches and presentations to aid them in their own travels.
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.
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 ...
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.
Helen Keller was a true American hero, in my eyes. She was born June, 27 1880 in Tuscumbia Alabama. Helens father was in the confederate army, and so was her grandfather on her mother’s side. Coincidentally one of Helen's ancestors was the first to teach to the deaf in Zurich; Helen did refer back to this in one of her autobiography. Helen was born able to see and hear, but by 19 months she became very ill. This disease was described by doctors as an acute congestion of her stomach and brain. Some doctors guessed that this might be Scarlett fever or meningitis, but never completely knew. Helen could communicate with the cooks daughter with a couple of made up hand signs, and by age seven she could communicate with her family using sixty different signs. Helen Keller’s mother eventually took her to different physicians, which in the end leaded her to Perkins Institute for the Blind. This is where she met her new teacher and 49 yearlong companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan’s teaching method was to spell the out on Helen's hand, her first word given to her was doll. This was very frustrati...
Something that Helen Keller truly influenced was education for disabled people. Keller’s dream was to go to college, she
She overcame the hardships of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s most important humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU. Keller contracted an infection called brain fever. She had lost both her sight and hearing. After college, she set out to learn more about the world and how she could help progress the lives of others. She became well known and a speaker by sharing her experiences with audiences and working on behalf of others living with disabilities. She testified before congress, powerfully supporting to advance welfare of blind people. In 1920, she aided in founding the American Civil Liberties Union. During her notable life, Keller stood as an influential example of how willpower, hard work, and imagination can allow an individual to
She was born physically normal-source 4. Keller was affected at 19 months with an illness that left her blind and deaf. -Source 5.When Keller lost her sight and hearing, they believed it was Scarlet fever -source 4. Keller was examined be Alexander Graham Bell at the age of 6. He sent her to the Perkins institute for the blind.-source 4. At 14,she enrolled in a school for the deaf in New York.-source1. Keller studied at schools in New
Anne Sullivan contributed so much to society. After the miraculous rescue of Helen Keller, Anne continued to go through college with Helen and sign the lectures into Helen’s hands.
Close your eyes and try doing something as simple as walking to your bathroom and try brushing your teeth. If you're about to hit something or get worried you could always just open your eyes. However if you were Helen Keller, you can’t just open your eyes. At a very young age of just 19 months, she got a very high fever. It went away, however it left her blind and deaf. The next six years she was very uncivilized and acted very animal like. Never taught how to act properly, she went on anger tantrums and was spoiled. However with the help of many people she got over her hardships. Helen Keller had many accomplishments and achievements during her lifetime.
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, the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. In all, she wrote 12 books and many articles, including but not limited to: The Story of my Life, Optimism, The World I Live In, The Song of the Stone Wall, Out of the Dark, My Religion, Midstream-My Late Life, Peace at Eventide, Helen Keller in Scotland, Helen Keller’s Journal, Let Us Have Faith, Teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, and The Open Door.
When Helen was in her eighties she became very weak. In 1961, she had a stroke and developed diabetes. At the age of 87, Helen died while she was in her house after having a sudden heart attack.
Helen Adams Keller was born in the town of Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. For the first 18 months of her life Helen lived as any normal child would. She learned to crawl and walk, although that is as much as she learned. When she became 19 months Helen Keller became ill with an illness described as “acute congestion of the stomach and brain”, upon recovering she was unable to see or hear. Keller had become blind and deaf.