HELEN KELLER

Impact of Helen Keller on My Life

Impact of Helen Keller on My Life

Introduction

Helen Keller is for many blind and disabled people have become a role model. She fought against the view that blind people could not participate fully in society, they are always in need of help, and they also may be less intelligent. You could learn about anything, or even study. She was only nineteen months old when she got blind and deaf due to meningitis. She was a bright and curious child suffering from disability, often leading to temper tantrums. Only in her sixth year, the parents involved a young teacher, Anne Sullivan. Anne knew the problems of the blind from their own experience, because she was visually impaired herself strong and was partially healed. Helen learns very quickly. Anne teaches finger spelling and how words are put together with real things. The word water is a key experience for Helen, as Anne takes her to a fountain and you can run the water over the hands. Helen learned the Braille. Helen learns French and German and received from Harvard University the honorary doctorate.

Body

The life of Helen Keller is an example of overcoming. She is one of the women in history that I admire; she had an extraordinary intelligence and commitment beyond the common and Ann Sullivan's wonderful educator who has always treated her like a human being.

Her Quotes

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

A Difficult Childhood

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb and blind at the age of one and a half due to a process of high fevers that managed to survive. Since then, her childhood was so complicated. She became rebellious and wayward girl. I often had outbursts. Her family did not know quite what to do to help her. Helen felt separated from the ...