2006-07-22 01:15:54 · 12 answers · asked by cindrella s 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Helen Keller - both blind and deaf, she opened the eyes of many people to the cause of blind rehabilitation, research and cures.
I think that she would be proud that we can now cure about a million people per year of cataract. She would be proud that we can replace the cornea. Research is now being done to graft new cells to repair the retina.
Before her time, blindness was like death
2006-07-22 01:23:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ulysses Grant (America's youngest President) was unemployed and selling firewood on the streets of St. Louis two years before he took command of the Union Army, six years before becoming President...
Benjamin Franklin had three years of grade school but became the richest person in America, published a scientific work that is still respected (on electricity), learned many languages...
The list is long, it's just a lot harder climbing the Mountain from the very bottom...
peace
2006-07-22 17:23:00 · answer #2 · answered by Christicide 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mahatma Ghandi? Mother Teresa? Abraham Lincoln?
2006-07-22 08:18:11 · answer #3 · answered by Audio God™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Franklin Roosevelt
2006-07-22 08:20:14 · answer #4 · answered by iknownothing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen Hawkins
2006-07-22 08:17:28 · answer #5 · answered by musicien_grande 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to see this question again later! Undoubtly this will appear on "Featured Question"!
Helen Keller? And that what disabled scientist, or scientists... Argh... Beethoven, with his deafness, Mother Teresa? She's poor..?
Argh just heck on answer some more, answerers, I wanna see more of them!
2006-07-22 08:18:51 · answer #6 · answered by Cherant 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bill Porter, he had serious health problems when he was born and worked for Watkins for many years and received achievement awards for his success. Check out the movie 'Door to Door'. Its his life story.
2006-07-22 08:21:39 · answer #7 · answered by Still a Junebug! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Richard Branson
he never went to uni, didnt come from a very wealthy family but managed to become INSANELY rich =)
2006-07-22 08:19:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Hilton sisters...mentally disabled
2006-07-22 08:25:40 · answer #9 · answered by norwood 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oprah... she reached great widths, too.
2006-07-22 08:19:29 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋