Helen Keller

Helen Keller
Helen Keller was a renowned American author, political activist, and lecturer, who became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She lost her sight and hearing at the age of 19 months due to an illness but overcame these challenges with the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Keller's autobiography, "The Story of My Life," details her early experiences and her breakthrough in communication. She also wrote several other works, including "The World I Live In" and "Light in My Darkness," and was a prominent advocate for people with disabilities and social causes.

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THE SEEING HANDI   HAVE just touched my dog. He was rolling on the grass, with pleasure in every muscle and limb. I wanted to catch a picture of him in my fingers, and I touched him as lightly as I would cobwebs; but lo, his fat body revolved, stiffened and solidified into an upright position, and his tongue gave my hand a lick! He pressed close to me, as if he were fain to crowd himself into my... more...

THE SONG OF THE STONE WALL Come walk with me, and I will tellWhat I have read in this scroll of stone;I will spell out this writing on hill and meadow.It is a chronicle wrought by praying workmen,The forefathers of our nation—Leagues upon leagues of sealed history awaiting an interpreter.This is New England's tapestry of stoneAlive with memories that throb and quiverAt the core of the agesAs the... more...

Optimism Within ould we choose our environment, and were desire in human undertakings synonymous with endowment, all men would, I suppose, be optimists. Certainly most of us regard happiness as the proper end of all earthly enterprise. The will to be happy animates alike the philosopher, the prince and the chimney-sweep. No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is... more...