Helen Keller

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This paper discusses Helen Keller's life story, outlining her tremendous faith and courage. The paper describes Helen as an inarticulate little deaf and blind girl who grew into a world renowned and beloved figure. Her slow, painful and successful battle to re-enter the world is examined. The paper illustrates how she changed the destiny of the blind and deaf forever. She is portrayed as one of the most powerful symbols of triumph over adversity.

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"For the first few years after her illness, Helen became a very difficult child, throwing tantrums, and terrorizing her household. Relatives urged her parents to put her into an institution. Seeking out the advice of many experts, including Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone), she was referred to Anne Sullivan, a woman who had lost the majority of her sight at age five, and became an orphan by age ten. Surgery improved her eyesight, and she agreed to accept Helen as a pupil. In fact, she and Helen moved into a small cottage in Tuscumbia, and after a month of trying to teach Helen through sign language, a "miracle" occurred. In a scene that is famous around the world, teacher and student were at a water pump, and as Anne pumped the water over Helen's hand, she spelled out the word water in the other hand." A bibliography is included with the paper rather than a resources listed page.

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