About Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was born up a healthy child, on June 27, 1880. Helen's birthplace was, in Tuscumbia, Alabama which is now a museum and also sponsors an annual "Helen Keller day". Helen Keller was an author, lecturer and political activist.
She was the first to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree after being a deaf-blind person. Helen was the first of two daughters born to Katherine Adams Keller and Arthur H. Keller. The autobiography The Story of My Life made Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan famous, and later its adaptations for film and stage, The Miracle Worker.
Family and teacher
Hellen's father Arthur H. Keller had served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The family was not especially well off and earned income from their cotton estate. Afterward, Arthur turned into the editor of a weekly local newspaper, the North Alabamian.
At the age of 19 months old, she contracted an unknown illness described by doctors as "brain fever" that produced a high body temperature, which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness left her both deaf and blind. She lived, as she reviewed in her autobiography, "at sea in a dense fog.
At that time Keller grew into childhood, she was able to develop a limited method of communication with her companion, Martha Washington, the young daughter of the family cook. Both of them had created a type of sign language.
By the age of 7 years, they had invented more than 60 signs to communicate with each other and Keller could distinguish people by the vibration of their footsteps. When Allan Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in 1887, a day Keller would forever remember as my soul's birthday.
Sullivan promptly began to instruct Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, starting with "d-o-l-l" for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller works with his teacher for almost 50 years, from 1887 to 1936 until the death of Ann Sullivan in 1932, Sullivan experienced health problems and lost her eyesight completely.
Hellen Keller Education
In the year 1980 Keller started speech classes at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston. In 1894, Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City.
There, she started working on improving her communication skills and studied regular academic subjects. In 1896, when they returned to Massachusetts, Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admission, in 1900, to Radcliffe College of Harvard University,
As her story became known to the general public Keller began to meet acclaimed and influential people one of them was Mark Twain who was very impressed with Keller. Later Twain introduced her to Standard Oil executive Henry Huttleston Rogers, along with his wife Abbie paid for Keller education, In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe.
Social Life
After college, Keller started to become familiar with the world and how she could improve the lives of others. In 1920 she helped in founding the American civil liberties union. At the point when the American Federation for the Blind was built in 1921, Keller had an effective national outlet for her endeavors.
She became a member in 1924 and participated in many campaigns to raise awareness, money, and support for the blind. Keller was also a member of the socialist party and actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921.
In 1946, Keller was appointed as the advisor of international relations for the American Foundation of Overseas Blind. Between 1946 and 1957, she traveled to almost 35 countries on five continents.
Awards and honor
During her lifetime Keller received many honors and accomplishments, including the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal in 1936, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, and election to the Women's Hall of Fame in 1965.
When did she die
Keller died on June 1, 1968, just a few weeks before her 88th birthday. Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the remaining seven years of her life at her home in Connecticut. During her remarkable life, by overcoming the difficult conditions with a great deal of persistence, Keller stood as a powerful example of how determination, hard work, and imagination can allow an individual to succeed over misfortune.
20 Amazing Motivational Helen Keller Quotes that always gives us Goose Bumps when we heard these.
Check out the list of quotes from Helen Keller
1) Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
2) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
3) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
4) The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
5) We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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6) Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
7) We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
8) I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
9) Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
10) Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
11) Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
12) The highest result of education is tolerance.
13) One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
14) It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
15) It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
16) Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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17) While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
18) Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
19) Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
20) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
