Helen Keller
Imagine that you couldn’t see these words or hear them spoken. But you could still talk, write, read, and make friends. In fact you also went to college, wrote nearly a dozen books, traveled all over the world, met twelve American presidents, and lived to be eighty-nine. You may find it hard to believe but, there was person like that and she lived over a hundred years ago!
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 on a farm in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When Helen was a year and a half old she became very sick. Her parents were afraid that she would die. She didn't die but she became deaf and blind, she was left in a world with no light or sound. As a child Helen often became frustrated that no one understood what she wanted. Helen's parents were terribly worried so they hired a lady named Anne Sullivan, a teacher of the blind. She was also blind herself. Anne had to teach Helen basic things like how to eat with a knife and fork and how to brush her hair. After a while Helen became extremely intelligent and tried to understand her surroundings through touch, smell and taste. When Helen was ten, she met a teacher who wanted to teach her to speak. Until then Helen's only way to communicate was through her teacher. It took long, hard hours of practice but in the end she could speak, she even learned to lip-read by placing her hand gently over a person's lips as they spoke. Life was working out for Helen but soon the hard working fourteen-year-old had a new goal to go to college. For three years she worked very hard to prepare for college. Her tests were even copied into Braille (A form of written language for the blind, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots that are felt with the fingertips) for her. Helen was accepted to Radcliffe College and graduated with honors. After college Helen Keller began to travel around the world giving speeches and helping many people who were blind, deaf or had any disabilities. During her life she...