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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart" (Helen Keller). You shouldn't ever stop yourself from achieving what you want. A disability should never stop you from doing anything. Look at Helen Keller for an example, she was both deaf and blind. That didn’t stop her from learning how to communicate different ways and to help others. Helen Keller is considered one of Americas heroes. Her history and background is unique, her accomplishments are important, and the legacy she continues to leave behind is important to deaf and/or blind people.

Helen Keller was very young when she became deaf and blind. She wasn’t born with these challenges, but she was to …show more content…

Though she was deaf and blind she managed to learn many skills and was very successful. Helen was accepted into Radcliffe College in Boston, Massachusetts. In college she wrote one of her many books called "The Story of My Life." This book was published in 1903. The book was an autobiography dealing with her early life and experiences with her teacher/friend, Anne Sullivan. After Helen graduated college in 1904 she became very interested in helping out others with disabilities just like her. According to Helen Keller's Story of My Life, "Historically, people who were blind and/or deaf were confined to mental asylums and Keller was influential in bringing this horrendous act to an end"(Hermann). By putting this to an end it helped many others became more successful and got a better education. Helens next accomplishment was trying to raise awareness for better education for the handicapped. According to A World of Words, "After college, Keller's attention turned to public service, and she set out to raise awareness of the plight of the handicapped"(Shattuck). This helped handicaps get better education throughout the world such as North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. With many struggles, Helen was able to make many accomplishments and helped many people out throughout the

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“Single-Handed Cooking” by JJ Goode speaks about his disability and how although he acknowledges it as an obstacle it isn 't one they aren 't continuously ready to overcome. He uses the example of cooking. It 's a task that for most does not require the intense focus that he needs ,yet it doesn 't stop him from cooking dishes ranging in difficulty. With each dish he successfully creates its a way to prove himself, while the mistakes no matter the cause are a failure. Which is why he continues to tackle demanding recipes because each time he achieves a great end result its another accomplishment.

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Hellen Keller is a very famous American social and political activist, and Author of several novels. She is most known for being both deaf-blind and still achieving things that the average person can not do. By 1933 her books were blacklisted and she started to have a enormous political impact. Helen was blacklisted mostly for speaking out against the nuclear war in World War II. Hellen presented her speech.

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When someone people see blind people, they think that they can't do anything, but working together with those that can see, blind people can achieve amazing things. Helen Keller fights for the right of the blind and persuade the reader to help them. Through the use of persuasive language and grammar, she creates a persuasive essay to help the blind. Through the use of pathos, ethos and logos, Helen Keller makes her argument stronger and more believable. In the fourth paragraph she uses pathos “ blind men will not be content to be numbered amoung those who will not, or cannot, carry burden on sholder or tool in hand.

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Helen keller was a great woman who did many things. She changed the way civilization think about deaf and blind people and their ability to do things. While being blind and deaf, she innovated a new way to communicate with disabilities, raised money for young children that were deaf and blind, and was a role model who inspired many around the globe. Helen Keller helped young children around the world thru fundraising. She helped fundraised for organizations that would help the children to communicate.

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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” This famous quote was said by Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf. Helen Keller inspired many people to not let something set them back from everyone else. I believe that Helen Keller is important to America’s history because she was very inspirational and did not let her deaf and blindness keep her from achieving her dreams.

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Jane Addams life as a child was not easy, she had a congenital spinal defect which led to her never being physically strong and her father who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War always showed that his thoughts of women were that they were weak, and especially her with her condition. But besides that she lived a very privileged life since her father had many famous friends like the president Abraham Lincoln. Jane was determined to get a good education which she ended up getting. She went to Rockford sanitary for women which is now called Rockford University and she also studied to be a doctor but had to quit because she was hospitalised too many times. Being sick affected her life very much so when she got older she remedied her spinal defect with surgery.

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Good Morning, The RTC pt, Brandon Williams, was on TLOA, and was set to return today. However, on 11/26/15 he was admitted to Helen Keller hospital for medical stabilization. As of today, pt remains admitted to Helen Keller Hospital. Unfortunately, pt was not discharged from MS4 on 11/26. His account has now been corrected to reflect the correct d/c date.

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NO matter how much of a pain it was for her, she kept going and don 't’ give up. Persistence may be difficult at the time to accomplish, but in the end it pays off. After Aimee Mullins had gone through what she did, she was still disabled but it wasn’t difficult for her to do what everyone else could do. This experience for her not only taught her hat she was very persistant and a hard worker, but also taught her that it didn’t matter whether or not she was disabled or not, she could do whatever she wanted to as long as you keep trying to achieve your

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Helen Keller was famous for being deaf and blind when she was young she lost her sight and hearing when she was 19 months old when she became older she got a teacher to help her read and wright then when she grew older she soon died in June 1, 1968. Helen Keller was a girl that lost her hearing when she was nineteen months old and she later learned how to talk and spell by her teacher, Anne Sullivan she later taught the deaf and the blind and later won many awards for leaving an impact on the world. Helen Keller started to walk when she was young (Source#5), Helen Keller's family earned money from they're plantation they were not wealthy though (Source#5), Helen Keller started walking when she was 1 year old (Source#4), Helen Keller's dad later became a editor of a weekly local newspaper, the North Alabamian (Source# 1), Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama June 27 1880 (Source#5), Helen Keller started to talk when she was 6 months old and she was

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College is hard for people without a disability. I can’t even imagine how difficult it would have been with two. She also wrote multiple books about her life. “She wrote of her life in several books, including The Story of My Life (1903), Optimism (1903), The World I Live In (1903), Light in My Darkness and My religion (1927), Helen Keller’s Journal (1938), and The Open Door (1957)” ( The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia Alabama, a healthy baby girl, with the name Helen Adams Keller, was born into the world. But at nine-teen months Helen had been suffering with an unknown illness, that left her both blind and deaf. After that all the way till Helen was six she was a very angry child because she wanted to find a way to express her other feelings, yet didn’t know how. She kicked, screamed, and became a very wild and an unruly child. Until a couple months after turning six, Helen’s father and mother connected with Alexander Graham Bell, who contacted Ann sullivan.

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Sullivan spelled class lectures into Helen’s hands and spent hours translating information from textbooks for Helen. Thanks to Sullivan the result was that Helen became the first blind and deaf person to graduate from

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Elizabeth Taylor was a famous Hollywood actress in the 1900’s and early 2000’s. She brought entertainment into people’s lives and was a very influential figure. She rose awareness for those who were suffering from AIDS and got them the support they needed. She also helped Zionist causes and donated a lot towards their community. She was not scared to fight for what she believed in, and because she was such a strong person, she influenced those around her.

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She was the first of two daughters and her parents were Arthur and Katherine Keller. Her family worked hard but, her family was not very wealthy and earned very little income. When Helen was 19 months old, she got sick by an unknown illness. The illness caused her to have a very high temperature.

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