Why Is Helen Keller A Hero

Jessica Nachazel

Mrs. Zmolek

LA9

30 March 2017

Helen Keller

Helen Keller is a hero because in her life she showed how to be inspiring, courageous, persistent, and perseverance.

Keller was born on June 27. 1880, in Tuscumbia Alabama to the parents of Kate Adams Keller and Arthur H. Keller.

She was pronounced both deaf and blind at the age of 19 months, but as she got older was taught by Anne Sullivan and at the age of 16 was accepted to Radcliffe College. Became interested in women's rights, and was fighting for what was right. She graduated college in the year of 1904. The rest of Keller’s life she became a world known educator to the disabled, and later on in life died at the age of 87 on June 1. 1968, in Westport Conn.

Helen Keller

She took the many chances she had to change what was wrong in the world around her. In the year of 1912 Keller joined the Socialist Party of America and campaigned for a friend of hers named Eugene Debs and his running mate Emil Seidel. She even became friends with John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Dean Howells while being in the process of becoming a women's rights activist. Later on in the year she joined the Industrial Workers of The World, she joined this because it was a socialist trade union group that opposed the policies of American Federation of

While growing up, Helen became the first woman to over power being deaf and blind. Even though she said it was like being trapped in the life of a newborn baby. that was her most hard experience, she was learning how to read and write with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan. Her teacher Anne had the amazing teaching skills that enabled her at the age of 16 to pass the admission examinations for her to go to college.

Helen was courageous, she later on wrote a book and an article for the Socialist Journal called (The Story of My Life) and (The Masses), in the book she is talking about her whole life and what she had to go through it all with no sense of hear and sight. Her troubles on learning and how everyone doubted her learning disabilities. She sure proved them wrong. While in the article she talks about World War 1. That no one should be segregated regardless of race, color, creed, or sex. That anyone has the power to serve and protect our country.

Works Cited:

* "Helen Keller." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 5 May. 2011. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Helen-Keller/45008. Accessed 20 Mar.