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Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American blind and deaf female writer and disabled educator. Born on June 27, 1880 in a town called Tuscumbia in northern Alabama. Scarlet fever robbed her of her vision and hearing when she was 19 months old, and then she lost her ability to express speech. However, in this dark and lonely world, because of the efforts of her mentor Anne Sullivan, she learned to read and speak, and began to communicate with other people. After graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in the United States, he became a well-known writer and educator who was knowledgeable in five languages: English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled around the United States and around the world to raise funds for schools for the blind, and dedicated her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won praise from people around the world and received awards from many governments. His major works include "If You Give Me Three Days of Light", "My Life", "My Teacher", etc.

Helen Keller became blind and deaf-mute due to illness at an early age, but she continued to strive for self-improvement and overcame tremendous difficulties to finish college. He wrote more than a dozen works throughout his life and was committed to social activities to rescue disabled children, protect women's rights and fight for racial equality. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.

She grew up groping in the dark. When she was seven years old, her family hired a tutor for her, Teacher Sullivan, who influenced Helen's life. Sullivan nearly went blind as a child and knows the pain of losing sight. Under her painstaking guidance, Helen learned sign language by touching her hands, learned to read by touching Braille cards, and later learned to speak by touching other people's lips with her hands.

In order to bring Helen closer to nature, Teacher Sullivan let her roll on the grass, run and jump in the fields, bury seeds in the ground, climb into trees to eat; and also took her to touch newborn babies. The little pig also went to the river to play in the water. With the loving care of her teacher, Helen overcame the obstacles of blindness and deafness and completed college.

In 1936, Helen was very sad when her teacher, who had been with her day and night for fifty years, passed away. Helen knew that without her teacher's love, she would not be where she is today, and she was determined to carry forward the love that her teacher gave her. As a result, Helen traveled to cities large and small in the United States, traveled around the world, ran around for the disabled, and devoted herself to serving those who were less fortunate.

In 1968, Helen passed away at the age of 89. Her lifelong dedication to serving the disabled spread throughout the world. She wrote many books and her story was made into a movie. Teacher Sullivan gave her the most precious love, and she spread love to all unfortunate people, bringing them light and hope.

After her death, her strong will and outstanding contributions moved the whole world. And people everywhere carried out activities to commemorate her.

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She has written 14 books in her life

"The Miracle Worker" (Taiwan translation: Helen Keller) ( 2000, TV Movie, Disney)

"If You Give Me Three Days of Light"

"My Life"

"My Teacher"

"The Light in My Darkness"

"Song of Stonewall"

"Optimism"

"Out of the Dark" etc.

< p> If I were given three days of light (excerpt)

(American) Helen Keller

All of us know that we are bound to die. But the arrival of this day seems far away. Of course, if people are healthy and well, who will think about it and who will think about it all day long. So he ate all day long and had nothing to do.

Sometimes I think, how wonderful it would be if people regarded every day of their lives as the last day of their lives! This can better demonstrate the value of life. If we think that the years are still quite long, our every day will not be so meaningful, energetic and enthusiastic.

We treat life so lazily. Is this not the case when it comes to treating one's various talents and using one's own organs? Only those who are blind cherish the light more. This is especially true for those who become blind or deaf in adulthood. However, those who have good hearing and sight never make good use of their gifts. They turn a blind eye, turn a deaf ear, and have no appreciation. Things are often like this, once something is lost, people will miss it. People only think of health and happiness when they are sick. If everyone is allowed to be blind or deaf for a few days at a certain stage in their adult life, darkness will make them appreciate the light more; silence will teach them to truly appreciate the joy of noisy...

Please Think about this question: If you only had three days of sight, how would you use your eyes? Thinking that in three days, the sun will never rise in front of your eyes again, how will you spend your precious three days? Where will you let your eyes rest?

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Helen Keller seemed destined to create miracles for mankind, or in other words, God allowed her to come to the world to show ordinary people her disability. Human dignity and greatness.

She suddenly suffered from acute cerebral congestive disease when she was one and a half years old. She suffered from high fever for days and fell into coma. When she woke up, her eyes were blinded by the fire, her ears were deafened by the fire, and her nimble little mouth could no longer speak. From then on, she fell into a dark and silent world, and fell into the abyss of pain.

March 3, 1887, was a very important day for Helen. On this day, the family invited a teacher for her - Miss Anne Sullivan. Anne taught her writing and sign language. When Mr. Janagno of the Perkins School for the Blind read Helen's complete and authentic French letter with a surprised expression, he wrote: "No one can imagine how surprised and happy I am. I am so surprised by her ability. I had always believed it, but it was hard to believe that she had achieved such good results in three months of study. In the United States, it would have taken someone else a year to achieve this level. "At this time, Helen was only 9 years old.

However, in a silent and lightless world, it is almost impossible for a person to communicate with others in audible language, because every exit has been tightly closed to her. But Helen was a miracle. She actually walked from hell to heaven step by step, but the difficulty of this journey was beyond anyone's imagination. When she learns to pronounce words, she has to use touch to understand the vibrations of the throat and the movements of the mouth during pronunciation, which is often inaccurate. For this reason, Helen had to practice pronunciation repeatedly, sometimes practicing for several hours to pronounce a sound. Failure and fatigue made her physically and mentally exhausted, and a strong person actually shed tears of despair. But she never backed down and worked hard day and night. Finally, she could say "dad", "mom" and "sister" fluently. The whole family hugged her in surprise, and even her favorite puppy seemed to understand her. She called out, ran up to her and licked her hand.

In the summer of 1894, Helen attended the American Association for the Promotion of Language Teaching for the Deaf and was arranged to attend the Hermason School for the Deaf in New York, where she studied mathematics, nature, French, and German. Within a few months, she could converse freely in German; within a year, she had finished reading the German work "William Tell." The teacher who taught French did not understand the sign language alphabet and had to dictate it; despite this, Helen quickly mastered French and read the novel "The Forced Doctor" twice. While in New York, Helen made many friends in the literary world. Mark Twain read his wonderful short stories to her, and they established a true friendship. Dr. Holmes read "Rouse Bean" to her in his secluded home by the Merrimack River. When he read the last two pages, Holmes placed a slave statue in her hands. The chains fell off the squatting slave, and Holmes said to Helen: "She is the liberator of your mind." The doctor was referring to Miss Anne. Helen felt excited in her heart. The beautiful thoughts and sentiments in the world, the timeless and deep love, and the down-to-earth pursuit were all like the seeds of spring deeply implanted in her heart. Helen has said confidently since she was a child: "One day, I want to go to college! I want to go to Harvard University!" This day finally came. Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University arranged her entrance examination in a special way. I saw her skillfully running her hands over the raised braille, and then answering questions on the typewriter. After 9 hours, all subjects were passed, and she also got honors in English and German. Helen started her college life with enthusiasm.

In June 1904, Helen graduated with honors from Radcliffe College. Two years later, she was appointed president of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind and began social work serving the blind. She received visitors from the blind every day and had to reply to the letters that flew in like flakes. Later, she toured the United States as a lecturer to promote educational programs and treatment programs for the deaf-blind. In 1921, the American Blind Foundation, a non-governmental organization, was finally established. Helen is one of the leaders of this organization and has been working hard to strengthen the foundation's work. During her busy work, she never put down her pen and completed 14 books. "Story of My Life", "Song of Stonewall", "Out of the Dark", "Optimism", etc. have all had a worldwide impact. Helen's last work was "Teacher". She had collected 20 years of notes and letters for this book, but all these and three-quarters of the manuscript were burned in a fire, along with them. There are also Braille Library and exquisite craft gifts from various countries. Another person might have been disheartened, but Helen learned from the experience and became more determined to complete it. She quietly sat down in front of the typewriter and began another difficult trek. Ten years later, Helen completed the manuscript. She was very pleased that this book was a gift to teacher Anne, and teacher Anne was extremely proud of it.

On November 15, 1956, the curtain on a plaque erected at the entrance of the Perkins School for Blind Children in the United States was opened by Helen with trembling hands. It read: In memory of Helen Kay Le and Anne Sullivan Macey. This is not an ordinary plaque, but one established for those who have written outstanding chapters in the history of human civilization. Indeed, Helen dedicated her life to the welfare and education of the blind, winning the respect of people all over the world. The United Nations also launched the "Helen Keller" world movement. On June 1, 1968, Helen Keller, the deaf-mute and blind scholar, writer, and educator who wrote a glorious hymn to life in the history of human civilization, passed away surrounded by flowers.

However, her indomitable fighting spirit and her legendary life will always be recorded in the annals of history. As the famous writer Mark Twain said: "Two remarkable figures appeared in the 19th century. One was Napoleon. One is Helen Keller. "

"The Light in My Darkness" is a book about the sublimation of the human spirit. Helen Keller, who was born deaf and blind, lived in isolation from ordinary people in her early years, which is so important for a person's spiritual development.

Under the love of God, the God of all mankind, she was able to come into contact with others. This spiritual development led her to a writing career.

Helen Keller is regarded as one of the most inspiring writers of this century.

Helen Keller’s biography:

Born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA.

In January 1882, he was blinded and deafened by scarlet fever.

In March 1887, Anne Sullivan became Keller's teacher.

In June 1899, she was admitted to Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University.

1902-1903 wrote and published "My Life" (some translated as "The Story of My Life").

Graduated from Harvard University with honors in June 1904.

1908–1913 Author of "My World" (also translated as "The World in My Life"), "Song of Stonewall", "Out of the Dark" and other works.

In 1916, he suffered from marital misfortune.

In 1919, the story of his life was put on the Hollywood stage, with himself starring.

In 1924, he became one of the main leaders of the American Foundation for the Blind.

In 1929, he wrote "The Second Half of My Life" (also translated as "Midstream - My Later Life").

Traveled to England in 1930.

Received an honorary degree from Temple University in 1931–1933. Visited France, Yugoslavia, and the United Kingdom.

Teacher Anne Sullivan died on October 20, 1936.

From 1942 to 1952, he visited thirteen countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

In 1953, the documentary "The Invincible Man" about Keller's life and work was released in the United States.

In 1955, he wrote "Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy" and received an honorary degree from Harvard University.

In 1959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign to support blind and deaf children in the world.

In 1960, the play "The Miracle Worker", which described her growth experience, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie. In the same year, the American Overseas Blind Foundation issued the "Helen Keller" scholarship.

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.

In 1968, Helen Keller ended her glorious life.

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If I were standing at the end of my life and the spark of life was about to die, what would I think? How would I do it? Will it happen too? Lament the shortness and fragility of life, and regret not cherishing it? Make good use of your eyes, as if you will suffer the disaster of blindness tomorrow. Listen to the sweet sounds of the music, the singing of the birds, the powerful and sonorous strains of the orchestra, as if tomorrow you were going to be deaf. Touch everything you want to touch as if tomorrow your sense of touch would fade. Smell the fragrance of all the flowers and taste every bite as if you could never smell or taste again tomorrow. People! Why do we always have to wait until we lose it before regretting it! Why are we always so greedy, rarely cherishing the things we have, but longing for the things we don’t have! Maybe, you always think that God has given us these beautiful things, even Life is all taken for granted. But have you ever thought that one day, everything you own, even your life, will be lost, what will you do, regret and regret, or give up on yourself? If so, that would be so sad. Yes, I cannot repeat the same mistakes as others. I would rather cherish it now. On the afternoon of June 1, 1968, Helen Keller passed away in her sleep at the age of 87. Miss Keller became deaf-mute when she was 18 months old. However, she miraculously completed her life.

Helen's misfortune

On June 27, 1880, a baby girl was born in a town called Tuscumbia in northern Alabama. She was Helen Kay. Le. She has good hearing and sharp speech. Her parents also hope that she will become a musician! However, when she was one and a half years old, a serious illness took away her hearing and vision, and then she lost her ability to express herself in language, making her feel like she was in a dark prison from which she could not escape. When she was five years old, a younger sister was added to the family: Miltraite. Every time Helen couldn't eat the biscuits right away, when she put the doll into the cradle, something soft was already inside. Every time she tried to climb onto her mother's lap, the soft thing was on top again. Once, she overturned her sister's cradle. If her mother hadn't arrived in time, her sister might have fallen to death. But for all this, little Helen, who couldn't see or hear, didn't feel the slightest regret.

Her temper grew increasingly violent. Until the arrival of Teacher Sullivan.

Helen's transformation

Because Helen was deaf and blind since she was a child, her family had to hire a teacher to educate her. To help, Helen was sent a teacher named Anne Sullivan to tutor her. It was Sullivan who changed Helen's life. After a long train journey, teacher Anne Sullivan arrived safely in Tuscanbia by carriage on March 3, 1887. When teacher Sullivan arrived at the door of Helen's house, she saw Helen who looked like a fallen bird. The kitten in the water: its brown hair is scattered, and its fine clothes are dirty. In Helen's memory, people who came by carriage often had candies, toys and other things in their suitcases. So, she took out all the things. Sullivan was shocked and quickly took back the suitcase, but Helen rushed towards her angrily. If Helen's father hadn't stopped them, both of them would have rolled to the ground. The next morning there was another breakfast war. All subsequent events softened Helen's rebellious character. Finally Helen gave in, she learned to speak, and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the United States. She became a well-known writer and educator who was knowledgeable and knowledgeable in five languages: English, French, German, Latin and Greek. She traveled around the United States and around the world to raise funds for schools for the blind, and dedicated her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won praise from people around the world and received awards from many governments.

Helen Keller International

(Helen Keller International Inc. HKI)

Helen Keller International was founded in 1915 by Helen Keller and other Americans. It was founded in 2011 with the purpose of assisting the government in preventing blindness, focusing on the education of blind children integrated into the mainstream of society and the rehabilitation of blind adults to enable them to live independently. HKI vigorously assists developing countries and enhances their capabilities to formulate their own plans. It also engages in research and prevention projects on malnutrition and dry eye disease, trachoma and other infectious eye diseases caused by vitamin A deficiency. It also provides surgical services to restore sight from blindness caused by cataracts. Wherever possible, HKI organically integrates blindness prevention projects with primary medical services.

Helen Keller’s spirit is worth learning from!

(2) On June 27, 1880, Helen Keller was born in a town in northern Alabama, USA. Her life set an example for people to fight against fate.

Helen Keller is a world-respected writer and educator. Although the God of fate took away her sight and hearing, this woman tightly held the throat of fate with diligence and perseverance. Her name has become a symbol of perseverance, and her legendary life has become a huge spiritual force that inspires people to overcome adversity.

■"If I were given three days of sight, the first thing I would want to see is my dear teacher."

At the age of one year and seven months, scarlet fever suddenly occurred The high fever caused Helen to become blind and deaf, making Helen a disabled person who was blind, deaf and mute. Because the deaf-blind child has no way to obtain correct information, the window to her soul is blocked, causing her to have a surly personality and a bad temper. When she was 7 years old, teacher Anne Sullivan came to her side. Since then, she has been with Helen day and night for half a century, guiding her out of the endless darkness and loneliness with love and wisdom. The miracles Helen created throughout her life are inseparable from this outstanding young educator of deaf-mute children. Helen expressed her love for Teacher Sullivan affectionately in her famous article "If You Give Me Three Days of Light": "If you give me three days of light, the first thing I want to see is my dear teacher."

The day Sullivan came to Helen's house as a tutor, he gave her a doll and spelled the word "d-o-l-l" (doll) slowly and repeatedly on Helen's little hand with his fingers. Helen immediately became interested in this game. She imitated the teacher's movements over and over again, and from then on she began to understand that everything in the world has its own name, and began to know that her name was "Helen Keller". Since then, Helen has successively learned and mastered French, German, Latin, and Greek. Deaf-blind but able to speak five languages, Helen's success has been called "the greatest achievement in the history of education."

Helen's "muteness" was caused by loss of hearing, and her vocal cords were not damaged. When Helen was ten years old, she began to learn to speak. Because she could not hear other people's voices or her own voice, she could only use her hands to feel the movements of her throat and lips when the teacher was pronunciating, and then imitated and corrected the sounds thousands of times. When she said the words "This is warm" like a normal person for the first time, they were pleasantly surprised. Both she and Teacher Sullivan realized that there were no difficulties that could not be overcome in the face of their tenacious perseverance. Throughout Helen's life, speaking tours around the world even became an important part of her career.

In addition to her love of books, she also likes horseback riding, swimming, boating, and the theater and performing arts. With her indomitable will, Helen learned to lip-read and can hear Mark Twain through her "hands" Short stories recited to her, she completed her studies at the world-famous Harvard University with honors.

Reading not only made Helen a knowledgeable scholar, but also cultivated her beautiful soul.

She likes to roam freely in the forest, and also likes to go boating on moonlit nights, relying on the fragrance of water plants and water lilies to identify the direction. She also likes to ride a tandem bicycle to experience strength and speed while flying, and like boys to compete in chess contests... She also loves nature, even though she can't see it when standing in front of Niagara Falls The world's most beautiful scenery, flying down three thousand feet, can't hear the deafening roar, but you can appreciate the majesty of the world's largest waterfall from the trembling in the air.

In museums and art stores, Helen can use her fingers to "observe" the joys, sorrows, and sorrows written on people's faces. She can use her dexterous fingers to feel the beauty of ancient Greek sculptures. "See" the freshness of the moon goddess Diana and the beauty of Venus in the lines. In 1937, Helen received special courtesy when she visited Japan and was allowed to touch the royal family's art collection and the statue of the Chinese Jianzhen monk, which was regarded as a national treasure of Japan.

■Mark Twain called her and Napoleon the two most outstanding figures of the 19th century

After Helen studied with Sullivan for three months, she began to try to use immature words. Expressing his feelings, he wrote the first letter in his life. Beginning in April 1902, with the help of teacher Sullivan, she began to serialize her autobiography "The Story of My Life" in an American magazine. After the collection was published the next year, it caused a sensation in the American literary world and was even hailed as one of the two most important contributions to world literature in 1902.

Many people do not believe that such beautiful writing was actually written by a deaf-blind person. Although Mark Twain testified to this, the suspicion could not be quelled. However, Helen's life achievements provide the best answer to this: she published 14 monographs throughout her life. Over the past century, "The Story of My Life" has been translated into more than fifty languages ??and spread to every corner of the world. An expert once said that "in terms of literary achievements, it is not inferior to Rousseau's "Confessions."" If Helen's tenacious perseverance to tightly grasp the throat of fate is inspiring, then her love is even more It is a precious treasure left to the world. When she first started studying with Teacher Sullivan, the clever little Helen easily learned to spell the names of many objects around her, but she could not understand a very abstract noun like "love". The young Sullivan turned her love into incomparable patience, which enabled Helen to overcome the insurmountable obstacles in the learning of blind and deaf students. While learning knowledge, little Helen also learned the love of Teacher Sullivan. With this love, 10-year-old Helen successfully raised two years of education expenses for a 5-year-old deaf-blind child. Perhaps since then, she has determined to help all the people in the world who are in need like her.

She gave love to the world, and the world rewarded her with lofty honors. In 1919, Helen's story was put on the screen by Hollywood, with her starring in it. In 1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University, becoming the first woman in history to receive this honor.

Since Helen’s childhood, every U.S. president has invited her to the White House. She has also been named by the government as one of the thirty outstanding people in the United States who have made outstanding contributions to the country. She has been honored by the U.S. President personally. He was awarded the "Freedom Award" and was hailed as a senior citizen of the United States. In 1959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign named after her globally to fund deaf-blind children around the world. In 1960, the play "The Miracle Worker", which described her growth experience, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie. In the same year, the American Overseas Blind Foundation announced the award of the "International Helen Keller Prize" on Helen's 80th birthday to reward those who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of blind people. On June 1, 1968, 88-year-old Helen ended her legendary life.

In the process of development, human beings have many valuable similarities. People of different skin colors and under different systems in the world can draw strength and inspire fighting spirit from Helen's story. This is because the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and having the courage to fight against one's own weaknesses has always been the unique spiritual wealth of mankind.

Source: "Beijing Youth Daily" June 27, 2002

Helen Keller (1880-1968): The great and famous writer Mark Twain said: "In the 19th century There are two people worthy of attention, one is Napoleon and the other is Helen Keller. "Times Magazine" selected Helen Keller as "one of the top 10 American idols in the 20th century." In Helen Keller's 88 years of life, she only enjoyed light and sound like ordinary people for the first 19 months of her life, and then she fell into darkness and silence. However, it was such a blind and mute disabled person who created a miracle in life. Not only did she learn to read and speak, she also completed her studies at Harvard University's Radcliffe College with amazing perseverance, becoming the first blind and deaf person in human history to receive a bachelor's degree in literature. Not only that, she also She traveled around improving the working and living conditions of blind people in the United States and raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind and the American Overseas Blind Foundation (now known as Helen Keller International). She created extraordinary achievements and received numerous honors. The biggest inspiration she left to people is that if you bravely accept the challenges of life, you can win the light in life.

This book is a detailed account of Helen Keller's life and is considered one of the two most important contributions in the history of literature.

(3) Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American educator with disabilities. She became blind and deaf due to scarlet fever when she was 19 months old. Later, with the efforts of her mentor Anne Sullivan, she learned to speak and began to communicate with other people. and graduated from Harvard University.

Helen Keller is a famous American writer and educator. In 1882, when she was more than one year old, she suffered brain damage due to a high fever. From then on, she could not see with her eyes, could not hear with her ears, and later, she could not even speak.

She grew up groping in the dark. When she was seven years old, her family hired a tutor for her, Teacher Sullivan, who influenced Helen's life. Sullivan nearly went blind as a child and knows the pain of losing sight. Under her painstaking guidance, Helen learned sign language by touching her hands, learned to read by touching Braille cards, and later learned to speak by touching other people's lips with her hands.

In order to bring Helen closer to nature, Teacher Sullivan let her roll on the grass, run and jump in the fields, bury seeds in the ground, climb trees to eat; and also took her to touch newborn babies. The little pig also went to the river to play in the water. With the loving care of her teacher, Helen overcame the obstacles of blindness and deafness and completed college.

In 1936, Helen was very sad when her teacher, who had been with her day and night for fifty years, passed away. Helen knew that without her teacher's love, she would not be where she is today, and she was determined to carry forward the love that her teacher gave her. As a result, Helen traveled to cities large and small in the United States, traveled around the world, ran around for the disabled, and devoted herself to serving those who were less fortunate.

Helen passed away in 1968 at the age of eighty-seven. Her lifelong dedication to serving the disabled spread throughout the world. She wrote many books and her story was made into a movie. Teacher Sullivan gave her the most precious love, and she spread love to all unfortunate people, bringing them light and hope.

After her death, she moved the whole world because of her strong will and outstanding contributions. People everywhere have carried out activities to commemorate her.

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