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    Helen Adams Keller was an American author and lecturer. She was born in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama on June 27‚ 1880 and died on June 1‚ 1968. When Helen was nineteen months old‚ she was stricken with a damaging brain fever that left her blind and deaf. There was no way she could be educated until she was seven years old‚ when a teacher named Annie Mansfield Sullivan came to teach her to read the Braille system and to write with a specially constructed typewriter. Annie was almost blind herself from a fever

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    Helen Keller Specific Purpose:To inform my audience about the accomplishments of Helen Keller. Thesis statement..... Despite‚the disabilities that Helen Keller had she accomplished great things. Induction: · "The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt from the heart." By Helen Keller · Helen Keller was born on June 27‚1880. · At 19mo.‚came down with a severe illness‚deaf and blind. · Could not see- beautiful sunrise‚ hear- bird

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    Helen Keller Have you ever imagined living in a world without sound and never able to hear a bird singing? Can you ever envision living in a world of darkness and never seeing a beautiful rainbow? Millions of deaf blind people have experienced this. One such person who lived in a dark and soundless world‚ who had never heard a bird singing or had seen a beautiful rainbow found a way to bring light to many other people. My hero is Helen Keller because she was an indefatigable‚ intelligent‚ and devoted

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    Helen Keller From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Helen Keller Helen Keller holding a magnolia‚ ca. 1920. Born Helen Adams Keller June 27‚ 1880 Tuscumbia‚ Alabama‚ U.S. Died June 1‚ 1968 (aged 87) Arcan Ridge Easton‚ Connecticut‚ U.S. Occupation Author‚ political activist‚ lecturer Education Radcliffe College Signature Helen Adams Keller (June 27‚ 1880 – June 1‚ 1968) was an American author‚ political activist‚ and lecturer. She was the first deafblindperson to earn a bachelor

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    Chynna Deaner Mrs.Whren Honor’s English 11 24 May 2013 Helen Keller Helen became ill at the age of nineteen months old in 1882. Helen sickness left her feeling alone where she began having temper tantrums. Her parents couldn’t communicate with her which made it impossible for them to be able to discipline her. Her parents desperately began looking for help through doctors and specialists. With help from doctors they were referred to Alexander Graham Bell. He later referred them to the director

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    Helen Keller may be the world’s most famous supercrip. Very few people can claim to have "overcome" disability so thoroughly and spectacularly. A blind and deaf wild child at the age of 7‚ she became‚ by the time she published The Story of My Life at 22‚ one of Radcliffe’s most successful and polished students‚ fluent in Latin‚ Greek‚ German‚ French and (not least) English--not to mention three versions of Braille (English‚ American‚ New York Point) and the manual alphabet in which her renowned teacher

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    helen keller Helen Keller was an American writer and speaker. She was born in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama in 1880. When she was nineteen months old she became sick and lost her eyesight and hearing. The doctor didn’t know what it was‚ so he called it a"congestion of the stomach and brain." Some people say that it was scarlet fever or meningitis. When Helen was seven years old‚ her family decided to find a teacher for her. They wrote to Michael Anagnos‚ who was the director of the Perkins Institute and

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    The Truth About Helen Keller In Learning Dynamics‚ the authors‚ Marjorie Ford and Jon Ford‚ choose to include an excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller to show learning from experience. The excerpt titled "The Most Important Day of My Life" mainly draws from Helen Keller’s early childhood as she begins her education on the third of March in 1887‚ three months before she became seven years old. Keller recounts her early experiences of being awakened to a world of words and concepts through

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    Surviving Disability General Purpose: to inform Specific Purpose: I want to inform my audience about Helen Keller Thesis Statement: Helen Keller is an admirable person because she was a hard worker‚ had a positive outlook on life and she was the first deaf/blind American to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree Imagine waking up‚ not being able to see or hear‚ living your life in a dark and silent world. Helen Keller was one of them. She may be misfortunate for losing her ability to see and hear. However

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    Life & Works of Helen Keller The life of Helen Keller is brilliantly presented in The Story of My Life‚ which is authored by an optimistic Helen who is full of flowery language about all that is good in the world. . Keller has become an icon of perseverance‚ respected and honored by readers‚ historians‚ and activists. When she was a child‚ Keller received a letter from a writer that she quoted in her autobiography: ‘‘some day you will write a great story out of your own head that will be a comfort

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