I. Invention
A. Research resources
Helen Keller did not research topics for her speech. However, she did have to learn how to talk by the help of her friend, Anne Sullivan. Helen learned how to speak by feeling the vibrations of Anne’s voice and feeling the positions of her tong with her finger. Knowing Helen Keller was blind and deaf she did not research her speech topic she did however learn how to speak words.
B. Methods of influencing an audience
1. Ethical proof
I do think that Helen Keller knew what she was talking about. She asked the questions “imagine how you would feel if you were strictly blind today.” She explained how she was an opportunity for the Lions International Convention. She wants to be adopted and be their friend. Helen had good will and character; I find it amazing that she was able to learn how to talk. I got this impression from thinking of how difficult it would be to learn how to talk if you could not hear or see.
2. Emotional Proof
I think I did have a need for this information. Her
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She did not have to define technical terms since there was none that needed further explaining. I do not think that there was access verbiage and that Helen explained her points. I think that the language in this speech was appropriate, since there were no cuss words or anything children should not hear. In my opinion, Helen’s most vivid supporting material was when she had the audience imagine what it would be like if they were blind and or deaf. She explained how they would have to learn how to when it was day or night and how they would be running into things all the time. Having the audience put this into perspective allows them to realize what she goes through every day. To my knowledge, I think that Helen Keller had good grammar use, especially since she is blind and deaf and learn how to speak by the vibrations of when Anne
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.
Anne took her out to a well and put Helen’s hands under running water, spelling out the word in sign language into her little hand. From that point on Helen was taught the words for everything and how to sign them herself. She became educated and attended lectures with Anne signing the words into her hand. Keller was a fast learner and, “at the end of their first year together Sullivan was spelling into Keller's nine-year-old hand the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and the Bible.” She eventually graduated a prestigious college with
She had to put her thumb on a person's throat, the pointer finger on the person’s lips, and the middle finger on the person’s nose. Helen Keller was both blind and deaf. Being blind is hard enough to overcome, but being blind and deaf is extremely hard to overcome. She couldn’t hear or see anything so she had to rely on her sense of touch to move around. She could not see what was around her and she could not hear what was around her so she had to overcome a lot of obstacles in her life. She finally learned how to talk by the thumb on the throat, pointer finger on the lips, and the middle finger on the nose. She said her first sentence which was “I am not dumb
First off Helen Keller obstacles were being deaf and blind “Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that ‘m-u-g’ is mug and that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. this quote shows that she kept combining the two. That it was very difficult to figure out which was which even though the teacher and showed her what is
Helen Keller is a name that almost everyone in our country knows. She is famous, not only for her unfortunate and extremely limiting disabilities, but for the unrelenting effort she put forward to overcome them. Despite being both blind and deaf, she was eager to learn. In this excerpt from The Story of My Life, Keller tells the story of the day that the fire for learning was lit inside of her. Through her writing, Keller uses tone, perspective, and emotional appeal to present her feelings to readers.
Helen Keller went through a lot of hardships throughout her life. First, when she first became blind and deaf, she was very little so it must have been terrifying to wake up one day and to not see your mom or dad to be comforted. It also took Helen a while to learn how to communicate, so those few years that she couldn’t do anything it must have been very hard to do daily things. Helen finally learned the word water from Sullivan after a few frustrating months. After Helen excelled at communicating with people she became the first blind and deaf person to receive a bachelor’s degree of art. She learned how to speak and practice lip-reading. Helen became a proficient writer and
The positive impact words had on the three people's lives is mind blowing; and these three short essays can prove it. Helen Keller was born in 1880 she was blind and deaf. She couldn't communicate any issue's she had with people because she didn't know how to. When she was seven her parents got a special teacher for her condition.
Annie Sullivan was more than just a teacher to Helen Keller. Annie was Helen's eyes an ears. Without Annie, Helen never would have learned that things have names, or been able to communicate with the outside world. Some people say that teaching Helen was impossible, as none had ever done it before. Annie was a very good teacher for Helen, as Annie was once blind herself, so she understands what it is like not being able to see. Annie uses three things to teach Helen how to communicate with everyone else. Annie has youth, persuasion, and patience.
Everything that Miss Sullivan taught Keller, she illustrated by a beautiful story or poem. She never hurried Keller with questions to see if she remembered the yesterday’s lesson. There were many problems in the world when World War 2 came. After this happened Helen Keller worked with the soldiers who had been blinded during the battle(Fetzer) #119. She was very useful in this because soldiers needed help if they got blind.
(link.galegroup.com) By lecturing, Keller was able to change the public’s thoughts on reasons why there is nothing mentally wrong with the blind and deaf. Lecturing, showed how being present in a room can have just as great as an effect on the influence on the mind as watching her through a screen or even reading one of her
Everyone cried a little inside when Helen Keller, history's notorious deaf-blind-mute uttered that magic word 'wa' at the end of the scientifically baffling classic true story. Her ability to overcome the limitations caused by her sensory disabilities not only brought hope for many like cases, but also raised radical scientific questions as to the depth of the brain's ability.
"The most beautiful thing in life cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller was an inspiration to a lot of people, specially those that share the same disabilities as her. She lost her hearing and sight at 19 months old when she contracted a sickness, but was taught and assisted by Anne Sullivan on how to communicate to the world. She attended several schools for the deaf and blind like Perkins Institute for the Blind and becoming the first deafblind person to graduate with a bachelor's at Radcliffe College. She traveled around the world to help disabled people and founded the Helen Keller International organization.
The effect of Helen Keller acts like a rock, something vital and prime. Helen Keller was born with a near fatal disease which caused her to lose the ability of sight and auditory perception, leaving her with no ability to communicate with the world. However, her lack of words did not stop her from accomplishing something astounding. Despite being both blind and deaf. Keller’s actions proved that she was magnificent. One summer, with the help of a tutor, she learned over 600 words she later went on to being the
When Mrs.Keller stated “she wants to be like us” to Annie and Mr.Keller she meant that Helen wanted to be normal,and Helen just wanted to be able to see the world,and hear what others talk about,Helen also wants to communicate with others.Even though Helen wasn’t able to do anything before she met Annie,She said her first word when she was little,and it was water but Helen said “wah,wah” she had meant water.Someone I know that was the same but not blind or deaf,she is a cousin of mine who isn’t able to speak.She struggled but after a few months and weeks until she learned to use sign language she was able to talk.She’s very smart,she can do 8th and 7th grade work even though she is only in 5th or 4th grade.I haven’t seen her in awhile now,but
Helen Keller uses specific diction techniques in her writing to address her ideas. She uses vivid sensory language when describing events and objects. When she went to visit the ocean she says, “I felt the pebbles rattling as the waves