Helen
Adam Keller was an American author political activist and lecturer. She was
born on 27th June 1880 in
Tuscumbia, Alamaba. In 1882, she feel ill and become blind, deaf and mute.
Helen Keller was the first of the two daughters born to Arthur H Keller and
Katherine Adams keller. She also had two step brothers. Keller father had
served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The family
was not particularly wealth and earned an income from their cotton plantation.
Helen
Keller was helped by Anne Suliyan, her
teacher to make tramendeous progress with her ability to comunicate. In 1890,
Keller began speech classes at the Horace Mann School for the deaf in Boston.
From 1894 to 1986, she attended the Wright – Humason School for the deaf in the
New York City. There she worked on
improving her communication skills and studies regular academic subject.
In 1896, she attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, a preparatory for
women.
As
the story became known to the general public. Keller began to meet famous and
influintial people. With the help of Henry H Roger, a Standard Oil Executive
who was impressed with Keller’s talent, drive and determination, Keller
attended Red Cliff College and graduated Cum laude in 1904.
After
college, Keller set out to learn more about the role and how she could help
improve the lives of others. During her remarkable life, Keller stood as a
powerful example of how determination , hard work and imagination can allow
individual to triumph over adversity. She overcame difficult conditions with a
great deal of persistence and thus she grew into a respected and a world-renown activist who laboured for
the bettermen of others.
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