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    Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, she fell ill and was hit blind, deaf, and mute. Helen Keller is an admirable woman in history because she helped other people with similar diseases and was the co-founder for the American the Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Meanwhile, Anne Sullivan helped her with her life, education, and social activism. As Keller grew up in her childhood she had a companion, Martha Washington, who helped her develop a limited method of

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    Helen Keller was born on June 27,1880, in a small town Tuscambia in the sate of Alabama. She was born to Arthur H. Keller who was an editor for the Tuscambia “North Alambamian”. He had served as a soldier for the Confederate Army. Helen Keller's mother, Kate Adams, was the daughter of Charles W. Adams. A soldier who had fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil war. When Helen was born she was a perfectly normal child, with all her senses. When she was 19 months old she was

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    I Am Helen Keller

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    In the book I read, I Am Helen Keller by Brad Meltzer, a little girl, Helen Keller, overcomes being blind and deaf. Helen is able to learn many things with her disability and made large impacts to other people’s lives. Helen was strong and believes everybody can overcome any obstacles that comes their way. Helen Keller was not always blind and deaf, when she was only nineteen months old, she became sick. The doctor thought she would not live, but she did. However, the illness made her blind

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    Have you ever wondered what it is like to be blind and deaf? It would make you trapped in your own head, helpless, hopeless, but could anyone like that be able to get a college degree and learn many languages? Helen Adams Keller Did. Helen came into the world on June 27,1880, in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in northwest Alabama. Struck by an illness that Helen left her blind and deaf only 19 months old. The syndrome may have been rubella, scarlet fever, or meningitis, but no one knows for sure.

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    Have you ever felt lost or confused? Imagine being trapped in a world that you didn’t ask to be in. Some people feel like that, especially if they are blind or deaf. Although, Helen Keller was a blind and a deaf woman, she succeeded in life. Helen had a rough start like any other person in her position would have been, but she worked a lot to prove to the world that she can be more than just a disabled woman. Helen Keller was the first daughter of Arthur Keller and Kate Keller. Helen

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    Helen Keller: America’s Greatest Deaf and Blind Person Imagine being confined to a windowless, pitch-black room. No doors for light to seep in; no spatial clues at all except a thump in the face once you reach the other side of the room. On top of that, there’s no sound. There’s nothing there to make sound, but there is a vague understanding that other warm-bodied creatures are in the room, too. This must have been what Helen Adams Keller’s life as a blind and deaf person was like. However, none

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    The Life of Helen Keller Helen Keller deserves a place in history because she changed a lot of people's perspectives and how they think about being deaf and blind.​ This does offer a clear answer to why she deserves a place in history. Adding in what she went through as a child would make it better. Motivation Helen Keller struggled for most of her early years to communicate with other people. At the age of 10 she was very determined to learn how to talk. She went to a deaf and blind school for learning

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    Blind Friendship Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was born with full sight and hearing, but in February of 1882 she fell ill with what the doctor called “brain fever.” Helen was expected to die, but, miraculously, her fever went away. Little did her parents, Kate Adams Keller and Captain Arthur Henley, know that the fever left Helen blind and deaf. Helen’s parents took her to a specialist in Baltimore. His name was Michel Anagnos. He was the director

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    Helen Keller The paramount, life-changing event of Helen Keller’s life was the day she met her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Sullivan taught her things she likely never would have known. With patience,love, and guidance, Sullivan taught Keller a different way to view the world without viewing it at all. The first paragraph of “The Most Important Day” by Helen Keller states that the “most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan

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    “The Most Important Day” written by Helen Keller is about how Keller learned how to read and write even though she was both blind and deaf. The story takes place in 1887 where her life changed forever. Helen Keller lived some of her childhood not being able to read or write until the day Anne Sullivan, Keller’s teacher, arrived. Miss Sullivan was there to help Helen learn how to read, write, and hopefully say words for the first time. Keller tells the reader how eventful that day was by making the

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