Essays on Helen Keller

Thesis: “Disability is not inability”

Helen Keller was an exceptional American who was able to make significant milestones with her life even while suffering from two disabilities conditions. She was deaf and blind. However, these disabilities did not stop her from making an impact on society.

Keller was known in the professional circles of authors, political activists and lecturers (Keller 1).

Helen Keller was able to achieve greater milestones in her life. “Her life was one of many hurdles that she was able to overcome and become a source of inspiration and a role model for other people to look up to.” Hellen did not view her disability as a barrier to having a normal life which gave her ...

History is an important subject because, as Loewen puts it, “it is about us” (Loewen). We as a nation must study our past in order to understand how far our society has come, as well as learn about the future. They say that people make mistakes so that others can learn from them, and so in this regard we must learn about the examples of our ancestors and figure out our own choices based on the course of history. History has taught us about the negative consequences of certain actions, such as racism or murder, and has prevented us ...

In response to the question posed by Loewen, about what has gone wrong, I believe that nationalism has played a major role in controlling what we study as students. Many patriotic Americans do not want us to learn about the negative side of our country’s past because we might not consider our ancestors so heroic after all. In our country, we look at people like Christopher Columbus as heroes and patriots who paved the way to develop the lives we currently live, but we are kept from the secrets of their dark pasts. In the introduction and first ...

Letters, in the past, do more than just share a message. These written words often carry the being along with the message; as if presenting one’s self to the one for whom the message is intended to be given. In this activity, a letter from Helen Keller dedicated to those who might like to donate for the cause of helping out deaf-and-blind individuals like herself shall be given particular attention to. Determining the response to the questions, what does this letter tell about Helen Keller? What result could a letter like this specifically bring about in relation to the goal that ...

English 50

A Good Education overtures a holistic approach that addresses an individual’s body and mind, as well as the spiritual aspects.

Aims of a Good Education

“The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. — Aristotle” (“Keeping the Whole Child Heathly and Safe” 6). As Aristotle observed, the habits formed in childhood are significant in shaping an individual’s later life. Our souls are nourished by the presence of others, but the nourishment comes from caring. Therefore, the challenge is how we can disrupt the current system to ameliorate the lives of children and parents.

A Holistic Approach to Education

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Different authors have their delicate way of presenting historical knowledge by the way they narrate their accounts and Helen Keller, in her short story The Day Language Came into My Life and Kay Boyle, in her short story Winter night, have distinct ways through which they do this. Keller for instance, walks the reader the memory lane by creating visual images through which the reader internalizes her troubled journey from birth to the day when English came into her life. For instance, she presents her account of how she met her teacher and how she changed her life. Also, ...

Helen Keller reflects on what she calls “the most important day” of her life when she met her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. The day was March 3rd, 1987 and Helen Keller was seven years old at the time. She describes her experience prior to this meeting, and prior to her education, as being immersed in a dense fog. This fog was lifted by her education. Her teacher taught her to spell words by tracing the individual letters into her hand. Helen Keller describes her frustrations as a deaf and blind girl with no knowledge of language, and how her teacher slowly ...

In addressing and understanding intrinsic motivation, Helen Adams Keller (June 1880-June 1968) is one of the monumental achievers that various psychologists, scholars, philosophers and the entire humanity fraternity have highly regarded, based on her lifetime achievements, despite her severe physical challenges. Born as a normal child, Helen Keller contracted a severe condition that affected her brain cells, rendering her deaf-blind. Helen Keller rose up to overcome total blindness and total deafness to achieve many ranks and scholar positions in the United States and below (Davidson 78). However, despite this condition at such a tender age, Helen Keller was the first person ...

Book Review

James W. Loewen is a history teacher. He has also written a textbook and his skills as a researcher are high, many notes supplement his text. His book Lies My Teacher Told Me is a history book that includes historical facts that have not been included in regular school textbooks. Loewen has a very friendly way of writing that makes a person want to continue to read the book from the beginning to the end. He takes historical topics that are very familiar and explains how the reality of the history is different than what has been taught as history. He discusses the research he ...