Helen Keller biography
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” This quote by Helen Keller means that you should overcome the difficulties and conquer your struggles. Helen Keller showed us that everyone can do that, even deaf-blind people.
Helen Keller, born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, America, was a famous author and speaker. She has two older stepbrothers and one younger sister. She was one and a half years old when she suddenly fell ill with “brain fever”. The illness left her blind and deaf. Unable to hear, she wasn’t able to learn to speak and became dumb as well. Since then, she had a lot of tantrums, screaming, kicking and crying every time. When she was six, she met her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan was once blind and knew how it was like to be in the darkness all the time. Sullivan taught her good manners and taught her how to communicate using handsigns. In 1890, Keller went to the Horace Mann School for the deaf in Boston.
She went to Wright Humason School for the Deaf in New York City in 1894-1896. After that, she attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in 1896. She then later attended Radcliff College. Sullivan spelled out the lessons into her hand using handsigns. She graduated from Radcliff College in 1904 at the age of 24.
Keller wrote her first book The Story of My Life when she was still in college. In 1904, she became a member of the Socialist Party and was a well- known celebrity, educator for physically handicapped people, activist who is concerned about women’s suffrage, pacifism and birth control. She was also a journalist who wrote about her life in silence and darkness. She co-founded Helen Keller International, which is devoted to preventing blindness and reducing malnutrition in the world, with George Kessler in 1915.She also founded the American Civil Liberties Union, which is mainly concerned about our human
Helen Keller, born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, America, was a famous author and speaker. She has two older stepbrothers and one younger sister. She was one and a half years old when she suddenly fell ill with “brain fever”. The illness left her blind and deaf. Unable to hear, she wasn’t able to learn to speak and became dumb as well. Since then, she had a lot of tantrums, screaming, kicking and crying every time. When she was six, she met her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan was once blind and knew how it was like to be in the darkness all the time. Sullivan taught her good manners and taught her how to communicate using handsigns. In 1890, Keller went to the Horace Mann School for the deaf in Boston.
She went to Wright Humason School for the Deaf in New York City in 1894-1896. After that, she attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in 1896. She then later attended Radcliff College. Sullivan spelled out the lessons into her hand using handsigns. She graduated from Radcliff College in 1904 at the age of 24.
Keller wrote her first book The Story of My Life when she was still in college. In 1904, she became a member of the Socialist Party and was a well- known celebrity, educator for physically handicapped people, activist who is concerned about women’s suffrage, pacifism and birth control. She was also a journalist who wrote about her life in silence and darkness. She co-founded Helen Keller International, which is devoted to preventing blindness and reducing malnutrition in the world, with George Kessler in 1915.She also founded the American Civil Liberties Union, which is mainly concerned about our human