Helen Keller's Struggle For Change

Do you think you could live being blind and deaf? Well, Helen Keller managed to live her very interesting life with those two problems. At the age of 2, she had a brain fever, and it caused her to go blind, deaf, and mute. She changed an impact on everyone who had disorders like her and let them know that they had a chance at the things that were difficult for them. Helen’s life as a child was confusing and even more difficult for her because she was just learning how to live with her disabilities.

Helen Keller was a social activist throughout the late 1800s and much of the 1900s for the deaf and blind. She went blind and deaf at a young age from a disease but learned how to communicate with the world. She went to Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and Cambridge School for Young Ladies for college. On June 23, 1953, Keller gave a speech at the National University of Mexico to promote rights for the blind specifically. Helen Keller effectively convinces her audience blind people need equal rights through the use of repetition and emotional appeals.

Helen Keller was a deaf and blind author, lecturer, and political activist from the United States. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, taught her how to communicate and eventually Keller became the first deaf and blind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts. She wrote many books and advocated for labor rights, socialism, woman’s suffrage, antimilitarism, and many other controversial topics.

Helen Keller stood up for people with disabilities by traveling around the world and giving them a voice. Later, she went to talk to the government about making more books for the blind. Eventually, the government listened to her and made more books. Helen Keller became blind, deaf, and wasn't able to speak. After college, she had decided to be a lecturer and a writer even though Anne, witch is Helen's instructor, and the others said she would be a good teacher and pass on what Anne taught her. This article will discuss information about Helen Keller and information about the problems she stood up against. The second paragraph will discuss things that she did to take a stand. The third paragraph will discuss how things changed for the better because of the hard work that Helen Keller did and how the world looks different thanks to what she did.

Born June 27, 1880 a baby named Helen Keller, she was a normal baby until 19 months of age when she became not only blind but blind and deaf. Anne Sullivan came to help the little child. She taught sign language on helen’s fingers and helped the child to connect objects with her signing. Once that was accomplished then Anne taught her to speak, she could never speak the clearest but what mattered is she could speak. At the age of 16 she could then speak and sign. Being able to attend school and not only finished high school but then she was the first ever blind person to get a Bachelor of arts degree. Her proud parents were Kate Adams and Arthur H. Keller, her brothers were William Simpson, Phillips, and James Keller, and she had one sister

After pulling Keller away from her family to better educate her, Anne started to teach Keller to communicate with things outside the world. During a lesson Anne finger spelled the word “water” on one of Keller's hands as she put water on one of her students other hands. Keller finally learned how to connect sign language with objects around her. Because of Anne's help Keller learned nearly 600 words. Keller also learned how to multiply and read braille within a matter of months. Anne left Tewksbury to go to Perkin's school for blind people in 1880, and did surgery to help improve her limited vision. Sullivan experienced great challenges while at perkins. Anne had never been to school before and she lacked social grace. Anne was humiliated by her own ignorance and had a short temper. Anne was tremendously bright and advanced

American educator, author and activist Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century's leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU. Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, she fell ill and was struck blind, deaf and mute. Beginning in 1887, Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her make incredible progress with her ability to talk, and Keller went on to college, graduating in 1904. In 1920, Keller helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). During her lifetime, she received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments. Her life story are often times studied by young students to learn about perseverance, courage and the value of education.

In the early 1900s Keller appeared before congress to advocate for the welfare of the blind in the U.S. To help with research on the causes and effects of blindness and malnutrition, Keller with the help of the famous city planner George Kessler, founded Helen Keller International, Keller also played a big role in founding the American Civil Liberties Union. “From 1918, she devoted much of her time to raising funds and awareness for blind charities. She sought to raise money and also improve the living conditions of the blind, who at the time were often badly educated and living in asylums. Her public profile helped to de-stigmatise blindness and deafness.” (biographyonline.net) In 1921 after the American Federation for the Blind was first created Keller finally gained the outlet she needed to display her efforts, obtained her membership in 1924, and become involved in many movements to help the blind.

Helen Adams Keller had a happy, wealthy childhood until she fell ill and was struck deaf and blind in 1882, just 19 months after her introduction to the world. She was born with her senses of sight and hearing

”I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker” (Quotations Page). Many people today struggle to see the light, just as Helen Keller did. She wanted to make it her duty to do whatever she could to help others like her. She felt that others needed to step in and take a part too. Through her life, she helped complete her tasks by providing help for the blind. Helen Keller was a successful figure who benefitted modern society by raising awareness for the blind, making standard

Helen Keller has changed immensely from the beginning of the play “The Miracle Worker”. Different influences in her life helped her achieve these changes and overcome her disabilities. Her biggest hindrance was her inability to see, hear, or talk correctly. By having these disabilities, she could not express her anger through words, so she expressed it by knocking things over and fighting. As a result of this her mother and father hired nearly every doctor they could find in their nearby area but, nobody was able to cure her.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf and had to find a way to learn how every other kid did. Although the odds were against her, Helen keller was able to overcome this overwhelming obstacle by getting outside help. According to the text, it states, “ Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten- a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand” (pg 506). In other words, in order to learn basic things Helen Keller had to get help from Anne Sullivan who was a teacher from Perkins School for the Blind in order to learn the same things other children learned.

Helen Keller was a deaf, dumb and blind lady. The multitude of conflicts she encountered in her lifetime influenced her personality and who she is today. Three out of five of her senses were either taken away from her at an early age or

Helen Keller was a game changer. She helped shape people’s opinions of what it means to be blind or deaf. The process of effecting change, no matter how great the stakes, takes time, patience, perseverance, faith, and sometimes pixie dust. Although, it is in dark times we learn what is most important. We often find our miracles, light bulbs, strength, Eureka’s, and sometimes even ourselves in the darkest of times. A miracle might take some time to come to light, but once it does it doesn’t take long for us to notice.

In the book Helen Keller; A Life by Dorothy Hermann, Helen inspired people from across the world. At the young age of 2, Helen Keller got the flu which left her both blind and deaf. Over the years she had a difficult time communicating, but she got through it with the help of her her teacher and best friend, Anne Sullivan. Helen not only fought for braille to be apart of the standardized system she also wrote many books and entries for magazines, and she inspired people along the was of her journey.