REACTION PAPER: The Miracle Worker 1. The central issue of the Miracle Worker was Miss Sullivan teaching Helen a sign language. When she taught Helen for the first time‚ it was difficult for her but she still pursues to teach Helen. After weeks of practices‚ Helen successfully learned very much‚ can now communicate and the time passed by she also successfully graduated from college. 2. > In classical conditioning in this movie was when Miss Sullivan and Helen were in their new room where Helen
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Teaching to Learn in The Miracle Worker William Gibson’s heart-rending‚ inspirational drama The Miracle Worker masterfully illustrates the process of teaching and learning in life. As the story unfolds‚ a lonely first-time teacher Annie Sullivan is called to the Keller household to help six-year-old Helen‚ blind and deaf from a high fever. The entire household caters to Helen’s tantrums‚ rewarding her with candy for her highly-inappropriate behavior until Annie steps bravely forward with her
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Video Reaction Paper #1: The Miracle Worker: Helen Keller This movie gave me a small insight about how deaf/ blind people were treated back in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Annie Sullivan often recalls her childhood which was spent with her brother in a state institution called almhouses. These were disease ridden‚ rat infested places people got sent to when no one wanted to care for them either because they were disabled or sick and dieing in some way. She talks about how horrid the
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the doll. Doll.”(qtd. 146 The Miracle Worker) Annie even not forgot teach Helen how to spell “ink” when Helen knocks over the inkwell while she wrote a letter. Annie lives with Helen in the garden house and teaches her everyday. The last day of two week training‚ Helen played with the dog‚ Annie touched Helen’s to the dog. Helen dutifully pats the dog’s head and spell “water” with her hand. Annie rectify this mistake by let Helen touch the water. (193 The Miracle Worker) Kate came to garden house
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Dr. Ben Carson’s a hero in my eyes. He has an amazing life story that not very many people have. He overcame hardships and struggle that people of this generation have not thought of. He worked hard on what he wanted‚ and he accomplished it. He made the most of what he wanted. He even wrote books and made a movie about his life! Now that’s an accomplishment not very many people has. Dr. Ben Carson should be considered a modern day hero. First‚ Dr. Ben Carson was considered a modern day hero because
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In the play the Miracle Worker by William Gibson‚ we see a young girl who is deaf‚ blind and mute. This play was very popular so they decided to make a movie out of it. There were many differences from the play to the movie. Here are some examples‚ I thought Helen was going to be younger‚ I did not think that Helen was as bright and intelligent as she is‚ and I thought Annie’s teaching skills were very different from what I imagined in the play. I pictured Helen being younger in the play
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Ben Carson grew up very poor. He had a rough childhood because his parents were divorced‚ Ben and his older brother‚ Curtis‚ would always get bullied because of their skin color‚ and Ben was called the “class dummy”. Even though Ben was known as the “class dummy‚” he always strived for excellence. He would read all the time and that helped him a lot in school. How did Ben Carson come to love to read? It was all because of his mother‚ Sonya Carson. She always pushed Ben and Curtis to always do their
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Ben Carson and Donald Trump are both well-known and respected candidates throughout the presidential debates and both have well thought out plans to help this American nation. Of course only one candidate can come out on top and also have the right plans of action to help the American nation. Both Ben Carson and Donald Trump have a set plan on taxes and immigration and how to fix aspects of each of those issues; however‚ Ben Carson’s plan of action for each of the issues helps build a better structure
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mother is Sonya Carson who married at thirteen. When Ben was young he got in trouble with his family and peers‚ one time he hit a boy head with a rock because he called him stupid. After Ben brought home an unsatisfactory report card in fifth grade‚ she made house rules to enable the boys to become better students. She restricted their television viewing to two programs per week. They were required to visit the library each week and to pick two books to read. Then‚ Curtis and Ben needed to write
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"Much of the creative work of the period was guided by the ideal of the Negro which signified a range of ethical ideals that often emphasize and intensified a higher sense of group and social cohesiveness... The writers ... literally expected liberation .... from their work and were perhaps the first group of Afro- American writers to believe that art could radically transform the artist and attitudes of other human beings".
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