Helen Keller Research Paper

Helen Keller Helen Keller was born like any ordinary baby, without any abnormalities. She was born June of 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. It was a sleepy and very southern town. The beginning of her life was very normal. She came, she saw and she conquered. At the age of 2 she came down with a fever as a result of an acute congestion of the stomach and brain. After that, no part of life would ever be simple again. The doctor said she might not recover, although she did. Except as that sickness went away in came another, she became blind. Her mother was giving her baby, Helen, a bath one day, when she happened to pass a hand in front of Helen's eyes and there was no response. Her eyelids
did not move, thus that is when her mother found out her baby girl was blind. Since that, little Helen’s world from colour to black, from noisy to quite. By the time past, Helen’s became cannot talk as short as the time past. It seriously drove her family to death. Maybe Helen did not what happen to herself. She just felt lost. It says that She would hang on to her mother's skirt to get around. Her father, Arthur H.
Keller spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian, and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army. Helen tried to let everyone knows what she want even she cannot see or hear. When she wanted bread, she acted out the cutting of slices and buttering them. Pinching a tiny bit of skin on her had meant “small”, spreading her fingers wide and bringing her hands together meant “larger”. When Helen was 7 year old, her family brought her a family teacher named Annie Sullivan. She was a nice lady and she almost blind when she was a little baby, too. So she can totally understand how Helen felt and it made Annie understand Helen more. She taught her everything, she taught her letters, she wrote every each letter in her hand all the time and tried to let her understand and let her to remember all the letters. She still taught her use her hand to touch stuff and feel it, And tell her what it is right way. Like the word “water”, Annie let her feel water and then write it in her hand, meant that this is water, the things like cold and don’t stay in your hand. Of course she had to teach Helen again and again. In that time, Helen learned sign language, learned to read and wrote in Braille, While, Helen was trying to understand other people talking, too. She was taught to read the speech of others with her fingers by placing her middle finger on the nose, her forefinger on the lips, and her thumb on the throat of that other person, she
could follow what was said. She did that to herself, she tried really hard, because she could not even really talk. She practiced it all the time. Finally, she talked, and she talked like how people talked, she only used her hands , that helped her from don not know how to talk to talk like a person. She worked hard at school. In 1891 Helen wrote a little story, the frost king as a birthday present for Mr. Anagnos.. That should be her first writing, the family read it and talked about it, as Annie recalled and agreed it was a marvelous creation---- so imaginative, so flooded with color. They ask Helen where did she get this lovely story, Helen said “I didn’t read it, it is just my story for Mr.Anagnos’s birthday.” Anagnos was so delighted with the story that he had soon published it in a magazine hailing its importance in literary history. However, it was soon discovered that Helen's story was the same as one called The Frost Fairies" by Margaret Canby. Helen Keller had aspirations of going to college. She was a person who didn't allow her physical challenges to deter her dreams. Helen moved on to the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in 1896 and in the autumn of 1900 entered Radcliffe College, becoming the first deaf blind person to have ever enrolled at an institution of higher learning. Life at Radcliffe was very difficult for Helen and Annie. This was one of the major challenges or hardships that Helen had during her study life. But she tried her best to understand and caught up the rest of student. Later on, her daily schedule was not very different from everyone else’s. She loved the hard work, the languages, and the ancient history, everything except mathematics. She studied in collage just like a normal lady like other people. Everyone helped her and forgave her about her Inconvenient. In 1936, Annie died. To Helen, she was very sad and helpless.This was an another major challenge that Helen had to face. They have been stayed together for 50 years already. She moved to Arcan Ridge, in Westport, Connecticut, which would be Helen's home for the rest of her life. Helen knew if she didn’t have Annie’s love, She will not like today that success and happy. She decided she needs to let everyone knew Annie’s love, let everyone can feel her love and enjoy her love. She started writing books and speaking. She became a really successful woman. She was a blind, deaf writer and a disability educator. She is learned. And she knew 5 different languages, including English; French; German; Latin; Greece. And she was even these languages’ writer. She has been done with14 books in her life, including the story of my life ,my teacher ,the world I live in, three days to see,etc. In October 1961 Helen suffered the first of a series of strokes, and her public life was to draw to a close. She was to spend her remaining years being cared for at her home in Arcan Ridge. Her last years were not however without excitement, and in 1964 Helen was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Lyndon Johnson. A year later she was elected to the Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair. She became famous and traveled around the world speaking to groups of people. She met many important and well-known people as she travelled. She died in 1968. She was 89 years old. She died peacefully in her sleep. She gave all her energy to the world. She slave the disabled people to the world. Annie gave Helen her Precious love, and then Helen spread her love to everyone. After she died, because of her strong will and Outstanding contributions moved the world, people from everywhere had activities to memorial her.

The main reason why I choose Helen Keller as inspirational is because she made me think that there’s no point of you living in this world if u don’t stand up for what you believe in and that you should not ever give up in life when there’s challenges and failures in front of you.
Helen showed that it doesn’t matter if person has a disability. She showed that if a person works hard and has persistence, that person can make it. Helen was a very determined woman. To her. She thought everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and she learn whatever state she is in, she can do it. She said she did not want the peace which passes understanding, she wanted the understanding which brought peace. As a personal response I always think God is not fair sometime, because he should not let her blind and deaf. She is that success, she is that smart. But every time when I think until here, I realize that God is fair. He gave her wisdom but not eyes and ears. God wants her to feel him by heart. And Helen did it. She felt every single thing by heart. That is why she can know everything well. She is very strong-willed and
proud. In her own words she says that:"The public must learn that the blind man is neither genius nor a freak nor an idiot. He has a mind that can be educated, a hand which can be trained, and ambitions which it is right for him to strive to realize, and it is the duty of the public to help him make the best of himself so that he can win light through work.".As Helen Keller traveled the world, she changed the lives of millions of people. And her powerful words always inspire me and helps me stay storng in my life . For example the words of her saying: “Never bend your head , hold it high , look at the world staright in the eye” .