Keller

Helen Keller Her life and legacy "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." -Helen Keller Hailan El-Naas Grade 9A April 28, 2013 Table of Contents 1. Outline 1 2. Introduction

wants, but his goal seems impossible to achieve. Helen Keller, a young woman who became blind and deaf at an early age, knew she wanted to communicate and overcame what some might have considered impossible obstacles. After analyzing several online biographies, it is clear that Helen Keller was a woman who refused to accept defeat. Helen Keller, even though blind and deaf, proved to be a very intelligent child. For example, after Keller lost her sight and hearing at only 19 months of age, she

fulfill her needs. This was exactly the way Helen Keller lived part of her childhood. If we think about Erik W. and Uncle Jim, they were only blind, whereas Helen Keller was deaf and blind. Living with two disabilities, going against society and reaching up to great heights, I believe Helen Keller faced the greatest obstacles. Helen Keller had come across tremendous difficulties, but the aspect that made her stand out was that she was blind and deaf. Keller developed the disabilities due to an unknown

disabilities. Specifically, Helen Keller has influenced many, young or old. Helen Keller is influential because she followed her passion, she overcame a great obstacle, and she had determination. The first reason Helen Keller is in influential is because she followed her passions. I know this because in the article Biography.com it states,”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

intriguing world outside it, Helen Keller’s early life was dismal. Keller used the Habit of Mind - Responding with Wonderment and Awe - to escape this cage and interact with the world outside it. Soon, her interactions became changes, and her changes created a new and better way for blind and non-blind people to live. These changes and her story inspired and illuminated our society to become an equal and just place to live. Keller used the Habit of Mind, Responding with Wonderment and Awe, to remain

Helen Keller Helen Keller was an American author who lived to educate and inspire others to become the most unique author of her time. She was a gifted woman who had exceptional writing abilities. She utilized simplistic style to correspond with all varieties of people. She wrote to inspire people and to help disabled people achieve their goals. Her writing style was full of many types of diction, syntactic devices, and patterns of imagery to exemplify her life chronicle. Keller used an

necessary to achieve their goals. Helen Keller wrote that, “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.” Despite being blind and deaf, Helen Keller never let her disabilities get in the way of accomplishing many great things during her life. Helen Adams Keller was born in Tusculum, Alabama on June 27, 1880. Born with all of her senses, Keller started talking at only six months old

Have you ever thought or realized how many goals Helen Keller has achieved in her lifetime? Helen Keller has been admired by people all over the world. She was confident and didn't let her condition stop her from being able to do what she imagined to. She herself said “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller is an extraordinary person who deserves everything she accomplished because of her determination to strive through the

speeches toward the disabled community. Helen Keller made a lasting impact on the world. Another thing to look up too is the fact that she learned so much in so little time. Helen was able to learn how to read braille and write in English, Latin, French, Italian, Greek, and German. Also Helen was able to utilize on a Braille writer and a typewriter. Along with all that she found a teacher, Sarah Fuller, to teach her how to speak (Marlow 236). Keller was able to accomplish this in only a couple of

were thoroughly represented by the personality of and the life lead by Miss Helen Keller. Despite the fact that she was left permanently both deaf and blind at the age of 19 months she overcame numerous challenges and learned to communicate, eventually earning a degree from one of the leading universities in the United States. In doing so she represented the first quality of global citizenship, resiliency. Helen Keller was a huge believer in the ability of all people to do great things in the world