Helen Keller Goals

For Helen Keller, the hardest thing in her life was being blind and deaf, but she didn’t let that stop

In both the text The Story of My Life by Helen Keller and the video “How Helen Keller Learned to Talk” by Fox Movietone news there are differences between how Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan are depicted in many different ways, such as in education and behavior. The passage depicted Helen Keller as an impatient girl who had little patience for learning manners and learning how to communicate with others. The video however showed that Helen Keller as an adult has matured and grown up to become this intelligent woman, who can speak, and do things that she wasn’t able to do before alone. Ever since Helen Keller’s been 6 years and 8 months old, Anne Sullivan has been her teacher. At first, the relationship between the two is that Anne is the

Helen Keller was a woman who impacted American history. She was known for many quotes, books, and speeches. Many people have heard of the illness she had but many people also know that the illness did not stop her from doing anything. Helen could not hear or see. Helen once said “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight without a vision.” Helen sure had a vison but no sight, she lead out her vison until she died.

Perkins School was in fact the first school that Anne ever went into. She lacked the social grace that her peers had which didn’t allow her to fit in very well. She loved to challenge the rules which led her into a lot of trouble. She was very intelligent however, which allowed her to advance academically. The school’s director, Michael Anagnos, helped Anne find a job after graduating from Perkins. Anagnos received a letter from the Keller family who was writing about their blind and deaf daughter, Helen.

“The sign of a great teacher is that the accomplishments of her students exceed her own.” stated by Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and scientist. Anne Sullivan Macy was a great teacher, because her student Helen Keller’s achievements were outstanding. She has influenced and helped hundreds and thousands of people around the globe, due to the Sullivan’s guidance. Anne Sullivan dedicated her entire life on the education of people with disadvantages. She grew up mostly independent and experienced various problems without any advices,but her impact on people similar to her is enormous.

The positive impact words had on the three people's lives is mind blowing; and these three short essays can prove it. Helen Keller was born in 1880 she was blind and deaf. She couldn't communicate any issue's she had with people because she didn't know how to. When she was seven her parents got a special teacher for her condition.

Annie Sullivan was more than just a teacher to Helen Keller. Annie was Helen's eyes an ears. Without Annie, Helen never would have learned that things have names, or been able to communicate with the outside world. Some people say that teaching Helen was impossible, as none had ever done it before. Annie was a very good teacher for Helen, as Annie was once blind herself, so she understands what it is like not being able to see. Annie uses three things to teach Helen how to communicate with everyone else. Annie has youth, persuasion, and patience.

Helen Keller stood up for people with disabilities by traveling around the world and giving them a voice. Later, she went to talk to the government about making more books for the blind. Eventually, the government listened to her and made more books. Helen Keller became blind, deaf, and wasn't able to speak. After college, she had decided to be a lecturer and a writer even though Anne, witch is Helen's instructor, and the others said she would be a good teacher and pass on what Anne taught her. This article will discuss information about Helen Keller and information about the problems she stood up against. The second paragraph will discuss things that she did to take a stand. The third paragraph will discuss how things changed for the better because of the hard work that Helen Keller did and how the world looks different thanks to what she did.

First off Helen Keller obstacles were being deaf and blind “Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that ‘m-u-g’ is mug and that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. this quote shows that she kept combining the two. That it was very difficult to figure out which was which even though the teacher and showed her what is

After pulling Keller away from her family to better educate her, Anne started to teach Keller to communicate with things outside the world. During a lesson Anne finger spelled the word “water” on one of Keller's hands as she put water on one of her students other hands. Keller finally learned how to connect sign language with objects around her. Because of Anne's help Keller learned nearly 600 words. Keller also learned how to multiply and read braille within a matter of months. Anne left Tewksbury to go to Perkin's school for blind people in 1880, and did surgery to help improve her limited vision. Sullivan experienced great challenges while at perkins. Anne had never been to school before and she lacked social grace. Anne was humiliated by her own ignorance and had a short temper. Anne was tremendously bright and advanced

Helen went to other schools and got help and she knew what many things were and she wrote books and essays. Helen attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in 1896. It was a prep school. During this time she met Mark Twain and became friends with him. Mark Twain introduced Helen to Henry H. Rogers, an executive at Standard Oil. He was so impressed by Helen that he agreed to pay for her education at Radcliffe College. Helen attended these schools to get help and to help other people out also. Helen was a inspiration and impressed many people throughout her life. Helen Keller was a founding member of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. This was the first agency to provide services to the blind. Helen was a member of Massachusetts it was the first blind agency. Helen made many accomplishments in her life. She helped many people and that only happen because her mom Kate got the help she

On the third of March 1887, Anne Mans Sullivan, a teacher, comes to Keller, a blind, mute, and deaf child, to teach her to communicate. In the story “The Most Important Day” by Hellen Keller, she tells the day that her teacher came to her and expresses her thoughts and emotions about the process of learning from her. In fact, meeting Sullivan was life-changing for Keller. Prior to meeting Sullivan, she stated how her life was. “I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without a compass or sounding line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.”

After a long search for teachers with the ability to help Keller, her parents found Anna Sullivan:“Sullivan went to Keller's home in Alabama...She began by teaching six year-old Helen finger spelling, starting with the word "doll,"...When Keller did cooperate, Sullivan could tell that she wasn't making the connection between the objects and the letters spelled”(“Helen”). When Sullivan first arrived she tried to teach Keller her first method of fluent communication, but not understanding what Sullivan tried teaching to her made the situation frustrating for both of them. Sullivan created a revolutionary new path in education, because no teacher had ever tried to educate a blind and deaf individual. Sullivan and Keller moved to a cottage on the plantation, so Keller could concentrate on learning: “Sullivan moved the lever to flush cool water over Keller's hand, she spelled out the word w-a-t-e-r on Helen's other hand”(“Helen”). Learning the word water through Sullivan’s exquisite guidance was the start to Keller’s extraordinary life, and the incredible relationship between teacher and student. Sullivan’s brilliant teaching methods allowed Keller to grow and become an incredible epic hero.

“I [Annie Sullivan] know the education of this child [Helen Keller] will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it”. Annie Sullivan was at first looked down upon by her student, Helen Keller’s family. They would tell Sullivan that there was no hope in teaching Keller—a blind and deaf child—to properly behave and communicate. Although Sullivan faced many obstacles while attempting to teach Keller the meaning of language, she was able to triumph over Keller’s handicaps. The non-fiction drama titled The Miracle Worker written by William Gibson depicted the methods that Sullivan utilized to educate Helen on how to behave and converse with others. The drama expressed that for one to succeed in

Anne took her out to a well and put Helen’s hands under running water, spelling out the word in sign language into her little hand. From that point on Helen was taught the words for everything and how to sign them herself. She became educated and attended lectures with Anne signing the words into her hand. Keller was a fast learner and, “at the end of their first year together Sullivan was spelling into Keller's nine-year-old hand the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and the Bible.” She eventually graduated a prestigious college with