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Helen Keller Accomplishments

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Success will never come when one gives up striving for it. It is a primary result of the effort and determination one puts in. A successful person accepts the hand they are dealt in life, good or bad, and takes the steps necessary to achieve their goals. Helen Keller wrote that, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Despite being blind and deaf, Helen Keller never let her disabilities get in the way of accomplishing many great things during her life.
Helen Adams Keller was born in Tusculum, Alabama on June 27, 1880. Born with all of her senses, Keller started talking at only six months old and was walking by age …show more content…

It was there in which Helen began her, what would turn out be, 49-year long relationship with one of the institute's graduates, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller finger spelling. However, it became apparent that Keller was not making connections between the words she was learning and their actual objects. As a result, Anne Sullivan and Helen moved into an isolated cottage. After much resistance and many struggles, Sullivan took Helen out to the water pump. Anne poured water over Helen’s hand and taught her the word “water”. This was a major turning point for Helen Keller and before long she was learning dozens of words …show more content…

She became a public figure and started lecturing to audiences about her life and disabilities. Keller also became one of the leading humanitarians during the early 20th century. She challenged many of the prominent political and social issues of the time including women’s suffrage, birth control, and pacifism. Keller also testified in front of Congress, promoting welfare for the blind. In 1915, Keller co-founded Helen Keller International which saves and improves the sight and lives of the world's most vulnerable. Then in 1920, Keller helped found the American Civil Liberties

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