How Did Hellen Keller Contribute To The World

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“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness” (Susan Gale). Mahatma Gandhi and Hellen Keller both raised from the darkest sides of the universe, but they both became known as the most effective people in the world; the world that everyone thought these people don’t belong to. They sent a message; a message that the government, and the social media were disagree with. The message of freedom and peace. They both became to an inspiration to the world. The question is, what made them so effective through their activity? Hellen Keller got fever when she was only nineteen months old. She lost her hearing and eyesight through the sickness. She became to a wild angry child, who couldn’t control her emotions and behavior, so she had no idea what …show more content…

Even though she learned a symbolic language to communicate with the help of her private teacher, she had no imagination of the universe that she was surrounded by, until the moment of inception that changed everything. For the first time, she was able to understand the meaning of water by touching it, and it was the beginning of a revolution in her mind to learn more and more about this world. She started going to college, and the world started to know who she was. Meanwhile, the social media started to criticize her as a person with disabilities. For the first time, she realized they didn’t give her credit for her thoughts because they used to think she doesn’t have enough perception. For example, The Brooklyn Eagle wrote that” her mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her development" (biography.com). On the one hand, a lot of people couldn’t accept

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