Helen Keller Research Paper

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Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, AL. Helen was the daughter of Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller she is also the granddaughter of Charles W. Adams and Lucy Everett, there were three other children besides Helen and the names were Mildred (Sister), Phillips (Brother), James (Brother), and William Simpson Keller (Brother). At 19 months old a sever fever broke out and left Keller blind and deaf and barley able to communicate. Age 6 Keller met a woman named Anne Sullivan otherwise known as Anne Sullivan Macy. Anne Sullivan was the one who taught and tutored Hellen to learn the brail alphabet and thereby opened up the world to her. Her teacher Anne Sullivan was an American teacher best known for being the instructor …show more content…
Horace Mann School for the blind is the oldest school in the United States it was founded in 1869 the lowest grade this school has is pre-kindergarten. Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City was a specialist school attended by Helen Keller from 1894-96. The Cambridge school of Weston was found in 1886 and it currently has 330 students attending this school. Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. The founder of this schools name is Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz the school was also founded in 1879. Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, Massachusetts, is the oldest school for the blind in the United States. It has also been known as the Perkins Institution for the Blind the founder of the school is named Samuel Gridley Howe and the school was founded in …show more content…
Keller’s honors and rewards that she had received were the presidential Medal of Freedom, order of sacred treasure (Japan), Gold medal of merit (Lebanon), America’s award for intern- American unity. Here are some of the books that Hellen wrote and they are the story of my life 1902, Light in my Darkness 1927, Days to see, Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy 1955, Midstream: my later life 1929, The world I live in and optimism a collection of essays 2009. Here is a fun fact about Helen Keller had wrote to 8 presidents of the United States, and received letters from all of them- from Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 all the way to Lyndon B Johnson in 1965. Here are a few quotes by Helen Keller “we are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others” “the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart”, “The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination”. June 27, 1880 Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, AL. February of 1882 Helen loses both her sight and hearing. March 3, 1887 Anne Sullivan comes to the Keller household. April 5, 1887 Anne spells words like water into Helen’s