Helen Keller Research Parer

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What makes a person influential? Influential people make positive changes for others, are ‎leaders, and ‎set good examples for people to follow. Helen Keller is considered one of the most ‎influential ‎people because even though she had a disability and had to learn to work through it, ‎she later ‎became determined to learn about the world and she wanted to help improve the lives ‎for others. Helen Keller once said “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but ‎still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something ‎that I can do” (Keller). For example, she ‎decided to teach the blind to be courageous and to ‎make their lives successful, diligent, and significant for others and for themselves.‎ Helen Keller has had an influence on society by becoming a role model for the deaf and ‎blind. When she was 19 months she came ‎down with an illness called “scarlet fever”. As a result ‎of the illness, Helen Keller became ‎blind and deaf, leaving her not able to see and hear. Many ‎people didn’t believe in Helen Keller being able to learn, but she ended up proving everyone ‎wrong. Later on in her life with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, Helen learned to read, ‎write and speak. Helen Keller once said “While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was ‎done” (Keller). Helen was born June 27, 1880 from a family of southern landowners with two ‎older sisters in Tuscumbia Alabama. Kate and Arthur Keller found a young woman at the Perkins ‎Institution to teach Helen how to communicate. A month later after Anne Sullivan’s arrival, she ‎had already taught Helen at the age of six the word water and that words have a meaning. Once ‎Helen learned to communicate with others by using ...

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...gh Keller had a disability, she was still determined to work hard and prove ‎to people that she was abale to learn. Helen Keller was a person that never gave up or let herself ‎down during hard times, and she strived to make a change for others.‎

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