Helen keller??

Question

ok so i am writing an augto biography but i need to know....what was the REALLY good things she did? how did she impact the world?

Answer 1

Helen Keller was the FIRST VISIBLE deaf and blind person to be educated. Laura Bridgeman was the first, but wasn't visible to the public.

Helen Keller was intelligent and charismatic in spite of her handicaps and had the family backing to achieve what she wanted to do--and her fight was to get rid of the stigma attached to being physically handicapped.

Before Helen Keller, it was the norm to hide physically handicapped members of the family from society and to protect them, but not waste money on their education. Her first teacher, Annie Sullivan, spent years in a public poor house because she was a blind child. Until someone cared enough to get her transferred to the school for the blind, she was stuck. Her sight was eventually restored, but she told Helen of her experiences.

Helen came from a wealthy family and was never in danger of being institutionalized, but she knew others were. She fought for their rights and her own.

Answer 2

An autobiography would be the story of your own life, not that of Helen Keller. Further, I suspect you are writing a report, not he biography. Do the research so you will know what you are talking about when you write about this remarkable woman.

Chow!!

Answer 3

write a BIOGRAPHY !
Helen Keller is the story of a normal child who, at the age of 18 months, was suddenly shut off from the world but, against overwhelming odds, waged a slow, hard but successful battle to re-enter that same world. The child grew into a highly intelligent and sensitive woman who wrote, spoke and labored incessantly for the betterment of others.
Helen was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. However, her real life began one day in March of 1887, when she was almost seven years old. She was always to call that the most important day I can remember in my life. It was the day when Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, came to be her teacher. They were inseparable until Annie’s death in 1936.
Even as a little girl Helen expressed a desire to go to college. In 1900, she entered Radcliffe College and graduated from there *** laude in 1904. She thus became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. Throughout these years, Annie Sullivan laboriously spelled books and lectures into her pupil's hand.
While still at Radcliffe, Helen Keller began the writing career, which was to continue for 50 years. In addition to The Story of My Life, she wrote 11 other books and numerous articles on blindness, deafness, social issues and women's rights.
Despite the broad range of her interests, Helen Keller never lost sight of the needs of others who were blind and deaf-blind. She was a personal friend of Dr. Peter J. Salmon, Executive Director of Helen Keller Services for the Blind (then known as the Industrial Home for the Blind) and lent her support to the establishment of what has become known as the Helen Keller National Center for the Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults. She was a visitor to a number of facilities and programs operated by IHB.
In 1936, Helen Keller moved to Westport, Connecticut, where she lived until her death on June 1, 1968, at the age of 87. In his eulogy at her funeral, Senator Lister Hill said of her, "She will live on, one of the few, immortal names not born to die. Her spirit will endure as long as man can read and stories can be told of the woman who showed the world there are no boundaries to courage and faith."

Answer 4

You're not writing an autobiography of Helen Keller. Only Helen Keller can do that and she's dead.

Answer 5

First of all an autobiography is about yourself. You are doing a biography of Helen Keller. Now look her up on wikipedia and do your studying.

Answer 6

I hate saying this, but you should put some effort into doing it yourself before you come to yahoo! for answers. Try googling it and you will find a lot of information because there have been countless biographies done on Helen Keller.


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And again I follow the person who cant spell Ciao!!!

Answer 7

An autobiography is writing your own biography, i.e., it is the authors own story of his/her life.

Search her name in Yahoo, you will find plenty. The woman was mostly an inspiration to others by her overcoming losing her sight and hearing at a very young age.

Here is a link that will help you:

http://www.afb.org/braillebug/helen_keller_bio.asp

Answer 8

One major contribution she made was to assist in the development of a standardized sign language still in use today.

Answer 9

She graduated from Radcliffe.
She was also related to Robert E Lee.
It was Alexander Graham Bell that examined her and suggested that education was a possible. She dedicated her
autobiography to him.

She was a Radical Socialist in her adult life. She was drawn to that political thought because of the issues that disabled workers faced at that time in the work place.

She helped to found the ACLU, to fight for free speach for others.


It's a start for you

Answer 10

first of all you are not Helen Heller so you are not writing and auto biography. She impacted the world by overcoming two hardships and gave people inspiration. ie: if Helen Keller can learn to spell, so can I.