The name of Helen Keller is known around the world as a symbol of courage in the face of overwhelming odds; yet she was much more than a symbol. She was a woman of luminous intelligence; high ambition and great accomplishment who devoted her life to helping others. Although Helen Keller was blind and deaf; she knew several languages. Helen Keller learned to read and communicate by touch. She used these skills to study English; French; German; Greek; and Latin. Late in her life; she said she wanted to learn even more languages. During her lifetime; Helen Keller was consistently ranked near the top of ‘most admired’ lists. She died in 1968; leaving a legacy that Helen Keller International is proud to carry on in her name and memory. This book is a authorized autobiography of ‘Helen Keller’.
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: Experience the inspiring autobiography of Helen Keller, a remarkable individual who overcame deafness and blindness to become a renowned author and activist. This book likely offers readers insights into her early struggles, her education, and her advocacy for the disabled. It provides a profound account of perseverance and triumph.
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Personal Journey: Learn about Helen Keller’s incredible journey from isolation to communication and education.
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Helen Keller shares her remarkable life story in “The Story of My Life.” This autobiography is a testament to the power of determination and the human spirit.
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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Helen Keller learned to read and communicate by touch. She used these skills to study English, French, German, Greek and Latin.
Helen Keller was an American writer and speaker. She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880 to Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller.When she was nineteen months old she became sick and lost her eyesight and hearing. The doctor didn’t know what it was, so he called it a “congestion of the stomach and brain.” Some people say that it was scarlet fever or meningitis. She was an obedient and good girl. Communicating with other people was hard for Helen, because she could not see or hear. She made up some home signs that she used to communicate with her family. The home signs were quite simple, pull meant “come”, push meant “go” and so on. Sometimes Helen’s family did not understand what Helen was meaning with her home signs. That made Helen frustrated and she had temper tantrums.In 1903, Helen wrote a book about her life. It was called The Story of My Life. The movie The Miracle Worker, made in 1962, was based on Helen’s book. She also wrote a book about Annie Sullivan called Teacher. She wrote twelve other books.Helen tried to help poor people and other blind people during her life. She traveled to over 39 countries with Annie to talk about her life and experiences. When Helen was in Japan, she met Hachiko, a famous Akita. She decided to adopt an Akita, and was the first person to bring an Akita to America.Helen Keller wanted to get married. She fell in love with her secretary, but her mother didn’t allow Helen to marry him. At that time, disabled people often could not marry. Helen Keller died in her sleep on June 1, 1968, at Arcan Ridge in Connecticut.
Helen Adams Keller
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
She also learned how to speak and to understand other people’s speech using the Tadoma method. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, she attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Helen Adams Keller
The Story of My Life
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.
She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan, who taught her language, including reading and writing; Sullivan’s first lessons involved spelling words on Keller’s hand to show her the names of objects around her.
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The Autobiography of an Indian Princess by Sunity Devee
I was born in 1864 at the old house known as “Sen’s House” which my great-grandfather built at Coolootola; a part of Calcutta where many of our family lived. My birth was always remembered in connection with a storm which occurred when I was six days old; a most important time to a Hindu baby; for then the Creator is supposed to visit the home; and write upon its forehead the little one’s fate. Perhaps people will think the stormy weather in the beginning signified a stormy future for me. No girl could have been more fortunate in her parents than I. My father; the great Keshub Chunder Sen; is considered one of the most remarkable men India has ever produced; and my dear mother belonged to the best type of Hindu woman. Gentle; loving; and self-denying; her whole life was beautiful in its goodness and its simplicity.
Orlando, A Biography by Virginia Woolf
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
I was born the 30th of November, 1835, in the almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri. My parents removed to Missouri in the early ‘thirties; I do not remember just when, for I was not born then and cared nothing for such things. It was a long journey in those days and must have been a rough and tiresome one. The village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by I per cent. It is more than many of the best men in history could have done for a town. It may not be modest in me to refer to this but it is true. There is no record of a person doing as much-not even Shakespeare. But I did it for Florida and it shows that I could have done it for any place-even London, I suppose.
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne had expressed the desire in the rewritten introduction of her diary for one person that she could call her truest friend, that is, a person to whom she could confide her deepest thoughts and feelings. She observed that she had many “friends” and equally many admirers, but (by her own definition) no true, dear friend with whom she could share her innermost thoughts.
Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl
She originally thought her girl friend Jacque van Maarsen would be this person, but that was only partially successful. In an early diary passage, she remarks that she is not in love with Helmut “Hello” Silberberg, her suitor at that time, but considered that he might become a true friend.
The Diary of Anne Frank
In hiding, she invested much time and effort into her budding romance with Peter van Pels, thinking he might evolve into that one, true friend, but that was eventually a disappointment to her in some ways, also, though she still cared for him very much. Ultimately, it was only to Kitty that she entrusted her innermost thoughts.
ASIN : B01GLHC8IC
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan (15 February 2020)
Language : English
File size : 953 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 130 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 8129137542
