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Write about Helen Adams Keller!

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Answer 1

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in a tiny town, Tuscumbia, in Northern Alabama, USA. Her father, Arthur Keller, had served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Her mother, Kate Keller, was the daughter of Charles W. Adams, a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army and a cousin of the great General, Robert Lee. They were a prosperous family.

Helen was barely nineteen months old when she contacted a mysterious disease which left her blind and deaf. But she was fortunate to have been born to loving and patient (and obviously well-to-do) parents who made every effort to seek help and educate her. At the suggestion of a family friend, Alexander Graham Bell, the family contacted Boston's Perkins Institute for the Blind. They sent Anne Sullivan to tutor Helen in 1887. Anne Sullivan was only 21 yeard old but she changed Helen's life. Anne Sullivan was, later called "The Miracle Worker", and her arrival was a turning point in Helen's life.

Anne under her guidance, began to read and write and discovered the wonderful world of knowledge. She not only passed the entrance exams for Radcliffe College but also graduated from this prestigious educational institution in 1904. She became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree, a remarkable achievement. Modestly she gave all credit to her family, Anne Sullivan and Graham Bell.

Later Helen blossomed into a writer. Her first book, The Story of My Life, was published in 1904 when she was just twenty three years old. Later she wrote many books, a total of 12 published books, and a nunber of articles on various subjects, such as women's rights and socialism. Keller, besides being a prolific writer, was well travelled Political Activist and Lecturer. She campaigned for Women's Suffrage, Labour Rights and other rafial causes.

In 1957, a play, The Miracle Worker, dramatised her life on TV. immortalising her astounding journey. In 1964, September 14, President Lyndon B Johnson awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United State's two highest Civilian Awards. In 1980 President Jimmy Carter, proclaimed, her birthday on June 27 to be commemorated as Hellen Keller Day.

Keller Devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968, at her home.

A remarkable women, who left behind a story to inspire millions of people.

Answer 2

Full name - Helen Keller
Birth - 27 June 1880
Birthplace - Alabama
Father - Adams Keller
Mother- Kate Adams Keller
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Helen Keller was also a writer, active politician and teacher. As a member of the society called Samajwadi, he campaigned against the franchise, labor rights, socialism and fundamentalist powers of workers and women from all over the world.

Helen Keller became ill after a few months of birth and added to her eyesight, speech and hearing power in that illness. But his parents decided to read them and started searching for a teacher and luckily Ani Sullivan taught this teacher to Helen Keller. First, Helen Keller started reading letters in the manner of 'manual alphabet'. Helen started reading Braille.

But his desire was not so much. They had the desire to read with the rest of the normal children. Because of this, he enrolled in the university for higher studies. Not being able to see the diagram above the board, not all the books in Braille, passing through these difficulties, they continued their studies and they graduated.

Further difficulties can come in front of the rest of the graduate person, after assessing the fasting of social service, so Helen Keller always experimented and tried. He always tried to awaken the Lokmat for the people of the blind people through writing and speech. Helen Keller felt that the children with disabilities should not have to depend on others and should be educated. They should be recognized as to how much skill is done in their fingers.

They must feel natural beauty, the splendor of life, and the sweetness of living. This is exactly what Helen Keller has written in her writing. And for that he has finally tried.

That is why Helen Keller of the rehabilitation area of ​​the twentieth-century Apango was one of the pillars.