Prepare a presentation of Helen keller on the life and works of an eminent person who has overcome many obstacles/difficulties and become successful in life.
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Life sketch of Helen Keller:
Helen Keller was an American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities.
During 1888–90 she spent winters at the Perkins Institution learning Braille. Then she began a slow process of learning to speak under Sarah Fuller of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, also in Boston. She also learnt to lip-read by placing her fingers on the lips and throat of the speaker while the words were simultaneously spelt out for her.
At age 14 she enrolled in the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City, and at 16 she entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in Massachusetts. She won admission to Radcliffe College in 1900 and graduated in 1904.
Workings of Helen Keler:
- Keller began to write of blindness, a subject then taboo in women’s magazines because of the relationship of many cases to venereal disease.
- She wrote of her life in several books, including The Story of My Life (1903), Optimism (1903), The World I Live In (1908), My Religion (1927), Helen Keller’s Journal (1938), and The Open Door (1957).
- She cofounded the American Civil Liberties Union with American civil rights activist Roger Nash Baldwin and others in 1920.