Helen Keller

Only at school where her unusual intellectual abilities allowed her to stand out did Clara believe she received sufficient attention. After shocking her teacher by correctly spelling artichoke on the first day of school (Pryor 1987), she went on to impress her teachers with her eagerness to learn the reading, writing and arithmetic which the school stressed.

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller. When reading the first page of the National Honor Society Application the words in scholarship, leadership, service, and character captured my attention. I then noticed that these 4 things were crucial to the program and I became highly intrigued in membership. Although the membership of the program may be pleasing to the eye of the college administrator, it seems to contain substantial scholar material.

In 1887, Anne traveled to Tuscumbia, Alabama, which is where she met the Keller family. Anne wanted to help Helen read braille, speak, and distinguish physical objects. Helen was rather stubborn and spoiled which led Anne to isolate her to further her education. During one lesson, Anne poured water over Helen’s hand while simultaneously writing the word water in Helen’s other hand. This was a major breakthrough which connected both sign language, and objects around

On June 27,1880 in Alabama, In a little town named Tuscumbia, a little girl named Helen Keller was born. Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who helped a lot of people. Helen Keller was very healthy until keller obtained an extreme illness named “Brain Fever”. That fever produces a high body temperature that can kill you. When she got better, Keller’s mother named Katherine Adams Keller, noticed that her little girl couldn't see her mother. Keller had lost her sight and hearing when she was just 19 months old. Later when Keller grew up her parents made signs to communicate with keller. However, Keller became very wild because she would get angry and scream because she was frustrated.

Helen became deaf and blind at 19 months old in February 1882. Helen went to many different schools to get the help she needed. Helen did many things and always believed she could achieved her goals. "Duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God." Helen believed that God helped her through her illness. "Among the great teachers of all time she occupies a commanding and conspicuous place. . . . The touch of her hand did more than illuminate the pathway of a clouded mind; it literally emancipated a soul." Once she got her hand on something she knew what it could be. Helen believed God helped her get throughout her life.

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

Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, at only nineteen months old, the diagnosis for a sick Helen was Scarlet Fever. Due to this, she had lost the ability to hear, see and speak which had a huge impact in her life (History.comStaff). As she grew older and wanted to learn, her parents had applied for a teacher for the blind. Anne Mansfied Sullivan had been her teacher for not only school, but also to help her find a way through life and learn how to communicate (History.comStaff). Eventually, with the help of Sullivan, Helen Keller was able to effectively graduate cum laude from a school for the blind in 1904 (History.comStaff). Although she had lost the majority of her main senses, Keller still had the ability to live as normal as possible with many

With all the difficulties Helen Keller had to face, she proved her intelligence in various ways. The beginning of it all started with the help of Annie Sullivan, who taught her the manual alphabet. After being taught her basic communication skills by Annie, she was then able to attend schools such as Perkins and Wright- Humason School in NYC. Helen was taught different ways of communication. Keller mastered the manual alphabet, braille and reading raised letters. She was taught how to write her own signature and how to typewrite. Not only did she learn English but she learned several languages such as French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin. With this background she was able to

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green, that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier.She had two younger siblings, Mildred Campbell and Phillip Brooks Keller, and two older half-brothers from her father's prior marriage, James and William Simpson Keller.

After doing some research, the family met, Anne Sullivan. A recent graduate from Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. “One of the firsts words Sullivan taught Keller the word "water"; she helped her make the connection between the object and the letters by taking Keller out to the water pump, and placing Keller's hand under the spout. While Sullivan moved the lever to flush cool water over Keller's hand, she spelled out the word w-a-t-e-r on Helen's other hand. Keller understood and repeated the word in Sullivan's hand.

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.

“I started teaching Helen in 1890. At first she was a little trouble, but i taught her to say a lot of stuff.” “ We started with water. I traced the letters out on her hand. Later that evening Helen wrote the word water.” “ I keep on teaching her more and more. She learned 30 new words. She was so happy. And she was even more when she learned how to read and write. Yep a blind deaf girl learned how to do that.

When Helen was Six she went to see a eye doctor. He could not repair her sight but he sent her to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell about getting help so she could learn. Bell became a good friend of Helen’s and she dedicated her first book to him. (“From darkness and silence: The Remarkable Journey of Helen Keller” Feeney, Donna) Helen Keller met her teacher and lifelong friend Annie Sullivan when she came to live with the Kellers when Helen was seven. Annie had just graduated from the Perkins Institute and was assigned to come and help

I have taught many deaf students over the years, and recently I have been teaching a wonderful new student named Helen Keller. I have been told by her family that before she lost hearing she was swiftly learning how to speak. Sadly, after she lost the ability to hear she quickly began to get worse and worse at speaking. She loved to feel cats purr and dogs bark. She even would place her hand on a piano when it was being played to feel the vibrations. As I have been teaching her she doesn’t seem to understand the correlation from words to objects. I have planned to run water over one of her hands and spell water in the other hand to hopefully get her to better understand the relationship between them.

She cannot comprehend why Helen does not react against her punishment and abuse. Helen’s philosophy about obedience and punishment first reveals itself