Helen+Keller

"The Story of My Life" || Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Keller lived in a house in which they called Ivy Green. She loved this place and had many memories of playing in the garden for hours. Helen had a father, Arthur H. Keller, who fought in the civil war, a mother, named Kate Adams, two half-brothers, and a little sister named Mildred. Helen Keller became deprived of her sight and hearing when she was nineteen months old. Keller had few friends as a child: Martha Washington, the daughter of the cook of the house, called Ivy Green, and Helen's dog, Belle. Helen had many mischevious memories of her childhood such as when she locked her mother in the pantry for three hours. After this insident, Helen's parents decided that she needed to learn quickly; they hired a teacher for her named Anne Sullivan. Sullivan helped Keller throughout her life. Keller attended Gilman school where teachers prepared her for Radcliffe College. With hard work, Keller got accepted to Radcliffe College and in her sophomore year, she wrote and published her autobiography then graduated in 1904. || || //Once Helen found out that everything had a name, she wanted to learn more. Everything she touched before was so dull to her. Now everything she touched, she saw in a "new sight." Anne Sullivan had tried to teach Helen what the word "love" meant. When Helen saw that she had broken her doll, she felt sad and now understood the word that her teacher had tried to teach her earlier. This was the first time that Helen felt love and sadness.// || //Because Helen learned that everything had a name, she wanted to learn more. She explored everything she could explore and wanted to know every object's name. This exited her and left her wanting more and more knowledge.// || //If Helen Keller did not risk anything, then she would not have become successful in learning the way that she did. Keller was a very impatient woman, but she had to learn to be patient, otherwise, she would have probably wanted to give up. She says we should be patient and learn as we go along.// || //Keller feels joy to be able to feel the grass and the water. She also feels lucky to be able to know everything she is touching has a name.// || //Keller realized that her friends and family made it possible for her to communicate with the world and she was thankful that she was able to be able to communicate although she could not hear or see.// || "1808" 18 Nov. 2009. Web.http://bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/helen-keller-and-anne-sullivan-cape-cod-1888.jpg
 * ​Helen Keller
 * Biography:
 * "I left the well-house eager to learn. Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought. As we returned to the house every object which I tougched seemed to quiver with life. That was becausee I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me. On entering the door I remembered the doll I had broken. I felt my way to the hearth and picked up the pieces. I tried vainly to put them together. Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow."
 * [[image:helen-keller-and-anne-sullivan-cape-cod-1888.jpg width="284" height="343" align="center" caption="(1888)"]] ||
 * "I recall many incidents of the summer of 1887 that followed my soul's sudden awakening. I did nothing but explore with my hands and learn the name of every object that I touched; and the more I handled things and learned their names and uses, the more joyous and confident grew my sense of kinship with the rest of the world."
 * [[image:hkport1.jpg width="237" height="295" align="center" caption="(The Helen Keller Story)"]] ||
 * "I had now the key to all language, and I was eager to learn to use it. Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare." //Helen became very intristed in learning all she could learn about communication. Children who are blind and deaf have to learn a whole new way of communication which takes a very long time through repition, but for a child who is normal doesn't have any problems learning a way to communicate. Keller says that result of learning language is "wonderful" no matter which path of learning one takes.// ||
 * [[image:070625114232_anne_sullivan_seated_with_helen_keller_lg.jpg width="316" height="366" align="center" caption="(Helen and Anne)"]] ||
 * "I have learned many things I should never have known had I not tried the experiment. One of them is the previous science of patience, which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country, leisurly, our minds hospitably open to impressions of every sort."
 *  [[image:helen%20keller%20image.jpg width="297" height="369" align="center" caption="(helen keller)"]] ||
 * "What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!"
 * [[image:helenkellerannesullivan1898.jpg width="310" height="365" align="center" caption="(1898)"]] ||
 * "Thus it is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk werene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation."
 * [[image:usakeller2.jpg width="363" height="352" align="center" caption="(USA Keller 2)"]] ||
 * Throughout American history, many people have changed the world such as Helen Keller. Keller went all around the world inspiring people to never give up and to be patient in everything they do. ||
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"The Story of Helen Keller" 8 Nov. 2009. Web.http://www.bham.net/keller/hkport1.jpg

"USA Keller 2" 18 Nov 2009. Web.http://hearingelmo.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/usakeller2.jpg ||