_ Helen Keller was an American speaker, author, politician. She was a first deafblind that claimed the award ‘Bachelor of Arts’.
I.Childhood
_ Helen Keller ( Helen Adams Keller ) was born on June 26th 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived in a farm in Ivy Green, it was built by her grandparents about several decades ago.
_Her father is Arthur H. Keller, an long-time-work editer for the newspaper North Alabamian in Tuscumbia and a captain of the south Army. Robert E. Lee is Helen’s grandmother’s cousin.
_Her mother is Kate Adams, daughter of Charles W. Adams, a native from Massachusetts, used to join the south army during the American Civil War and became colonel. Helen’s father’s family was descended to Casper Keller, had a desecnd of Swiss.
_ She wasn’t born deafblind congenitally. After 19 months she was born, she got high temperature fever menigitis. Unluckily, she had become blind and and then deaf. Miserable family beheld their growing child fighting the illness with a difficult destination. The more she grew up, the bigger anger she was. II.Education
_ In 1886, Helen’s mother incidentally knew there was a deafblind child like Helen, but has been educated sucessfully. Then she came to Baltimore, Maryland immediately to see a doctor to get advices. This doctor told her to see Alexender Graham Bell, a profession working with deafblind children at local ( at that time ).
_When Keller aged 8, Ms Anne has brought her to Perkins school, where they got many kinds of Braille books and looked after many other deafblind children. Not a long time after that, Keller started to be effusive clearly of her talent on mathematics, geographic, biology, readings; she also learnt swimming, boating, riding horses, driving. Then, she went to Massachusetts school for girls, teacher Anne always stayed beside Keller to write the content of the lessons into Keller’s hands. In 1900, Keller graduated and went to Radcliffe College, learning the documents