Helen Keller, Helen: The World Book Activist

Anne Sullivan was born on Saturday, April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Anne grew up in a poor household with her two other siblings and her mother and father. . When Anne was only five years of age, she contracted trachoma, an eye disease. Her mother, Alice, suffered from tuberculosis and unfortunately died when Anne was eight years old. Her abusive father, Thomas, left Anne and her siblings after the death of his wife, thus leaving forcing Anne and one of her brothers to Tewksbury Almshouse. Tewksbury Almshouse was very run down and dirty which eventually led to Anne brother’s death a few months after their arrival. While Anne was at Tewksbury, she gained an interest in schools for the blind and was persistent in gaining an education and escaping poverty.

"I used to wander around crashing into things, but then I found that things are bigger than I am. That is thanks to you," Helen told Annie her teacher. As an infant she could see and hear, but by the age of two, due to an illness, she no longer could. Helen Keller is considered to be a hero among many people. She has had a lasting effect on everyone with disabilities and everyone else. Her history and background are different from everyone else, she has many obsticles that she overcame and became her accomplishments, and her legacy, she left behind is still important for everyone to hear.

Helen went to other schools and got help and she knew what many things were and she wrote books and essays. Helen attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in 1896. It was a prep school. During this time she met Mark Twain and became friends with him. Mark Twain introduced Helen to Henry H. Rogers, an executive at Standard Oil. He was so impressed by Helen that he agreed to pay for her education at Radcliffe College. Helen attended these schools to get help and to help other people out also. Helen was a inspiration and impressed many people throughout her life. Helen Keller was a founding member of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. This was the first agency to provide services to the blind. Helen was a member of Massachusetts it was the first blind agency. Helen made many accomplishments in her life. She helped many people and that only happen because her mom Kate got the help she

Keller began speech classes. She would work for 25 years to learn to speak so that others could understand her. Around this time, Keller became determined to attend college. In 1896, she attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, a preparatory school for women. As her story became known to the general public, Keller began to meet famous and influential people. One of them was the writer Mark Twain, who was very impressed with her. They became friends. Twain introduced her to his friend Henry H. Rogers, a Standard Oil executive. Rogers was so impressed with Keller's talent, drive and determination that he agreed to pay for her to attend Radcliff College. There, she was accompanied by Sullivan, who sat by her side to interpret lectures and texts.

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it”- Helen Keller. Helen Keller was a girl who had developed an illness at a young age that left her both blind and deaf, giving her the difficulty of communication. She had gotten help with her communication skills, and she later graduated from college in 1904 even with her disability. She not only spread awareness for the blind, but she had also fought for social issues such as women’s suffrage, pacifism, and birth control. Helen Keller possessed the traits of neverending perseverance, courage, and devotion, which allowed her to be influential in world history.

Helen Keller reached for the stars and decided to attend college (Corbis/Bettmann). This might not sound like a big accomplishment, but Helen Keller was both blind and deaf making it extremely hard to get into one.(CX) Helen had a passion to be heard, so when she was she wanted to show people to look beyond their shortcomings and never give up on their dreams.(CD) Helen Keller was also a bookworm. She loved to write books about her life and how she never gave up. During her time, some of her most famous books she wrote were called, “Light in My Darkness”, “The Song of the Stone Wall, and Story of My Life”.

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When Helen was born she had both her hearing and her sight, but at the age of about nineteen months she lost both. (History.com). There wasn’t any medicine or real studies to some diseases, so nobody knew what the cause of her blindness and deafness was. Today, people believe that her illness is an effect

As Keller continued on her magnificent life, her story became known to the general public. She began to meet famous and inspirational people including every President of America from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon Johnson. That’s a lot of presidents! She also met Mark Twain, an amazing author that was very impressed with her, who later on became a friend of Helen. Twain introduced her to Henry H. Rogers, a friend of Twain who was a Standard Oil executive. Rogers was so impressed with Keller’s courage, effort, and talents that he agreed to pay for her to attend Radcliffe College. Helen Keller entered Radcliffe in the fall of 1900, and for every single lesson, Anne Sullivan, her brilliant teacher, had to sit by her side and manually sign them into her hand. While still a student at Radcliffe, Helen wrote her first book, The Story of My Life. In 1902, her autobiography was published. Keller worked hard and as a result, Keller graduated, cum laude, from Radcliffe in 1904. She was able to attend college and finally graduate as the first deaf-blind person to ever do

When Helen Keller was born, she had all her senses, but when she turned 18 months old, her ability to see and hear were taken from her by an illness diagnosed as “brain fever” by a family doctor. Researchers today think that “brain fever” might have either been Scarlet fever or meningitis, and Keller even said in her autobiography, The Story of My Life, that it was “acute congestion of the stomach and brain.” During her battle of with the illness, she describes lying in bed, her vision and hearing getting more hazy day after day, and the sun's rays becoming dim. Soon enough, Keller wasn't responding to things like a hand waving in front of her face, or a bell ringing;

According to the Biography. com Editors, Helen Keller was an author, a cofounder of the American Civil Liberties Union, and graduated, cum laude, from Radcliffe College. Many people do not know about all of her accomplishments and only know about Keller’s childhood. While what she overcame as a child is inspiring and an amazing feat, her adulthood is just as inspirational and remarkable, yet it is rarely taught or discussed. Due to what she believed, Helen Keller’s achievements are typically overlooked.

This was the greatest thing that could have happened, as Helen became determined to further her education and eventually paved the way for others who were visually and hearing impaired. Helen Keller authored many essays about big political issues. This includes rise of fascism in Europe, atomic energy, blindness prevention and birth control. She had several works published other than her political essays. Helen’s greatest

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, she was stricken by an illness that left her blind and deaf. Beginning in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make tremendous progress with her ability to communicate, and Keller went on to college, graduating in 1904. In 1920, Keller helped found the ACLU. During her lifetime, she received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments.

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, Helen was a normal kid until 1881 when Helen’s life changed. In 1881 Helen Keller’s kitchen ringed the bell, she usually run up to the kitchen but, she didn’t. Helen’s mom ran over to Helen and called her in helen stayed still, then later that evening they noticed Helen was blind

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. She was born with her sight and hearing senses, but contracted “brain fever” when she was 18 months, which subsequently caused her to lose her sight and hearing. Her mother noticed, a few days after Keller’s fever broke, that she no longer responded to the dinner bell, or when a hand was waved in front of her face.

Keller’s main message in her autobiography is that you can persevere through anything in life, “Helen Keller has shown the world that one can achieve anything in their lifetime.” ( , Pg. 210)