...GROUP II ROLE: MRS. KELLER - ___________________________ MR. KELLER - _________________________ DOCTOR - ___________________________ DIRECTOR ANAGNOS - ___________________________ ANNE SULLIVAN - ___________________________ HELEN KELLER - ________________________ SCRIPT: On June 27, 1880, a girl named Helen Adams Keller, a very well-knowned writer, was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in a white, frame cottage called “Ivy Green.” Her parents were captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller. (Helen is two years old. Mrs. Keller enters the bedroom) MRS. KELLER: Helen, wake up, sweety!. It’s a beautiful day!. (she tries to wake her up, but Helen doesn’t open her eyes. Mrs. Keller touches Helen’s forehead) MRS. KELLER: Helen, what’s wrong?. Wake up!. Oh, no you have a high temperature!. (Mr. Keller enters the bedroom) MR. KELLER: What’s wrong?. Why are you yelling?. MRS. KELLER: It’s Helen, she’s burning!. MR. KELLER: Again?. MRS. KELLER: I thought she was better, but the temperature is back. MR. KELLER: I think we have waited too long. I’ll send someone for the doctor. (Mr. Keller leaves. A few minutes later he comes back with the doctor. The doctor approaches Helen and starts to examine her. Mrs. Keller and Mr. Keller look worried) MRS. KELLER: What’s wrong with her, doctor?. DOCTOR: First tell me, how much time did you wait before calling me?. MRS. KELLER: Well, I noticed that she was sick about two or three weeks ago, but the temperature disappeared, that’s...
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...Helen Keller may be the world's most famous ‘supercrip’. Very few people can claim to have "overcome" disability so thoroughly and spectacularly. A blind and deaf wild child at the age of 7, she became, by the time she published The Story of My Life at 22, one of Radcliffe's most successful and polished students, fluent in Latin, Greek, German, French and (not least) English--not to mention three versions of Braille (English, American, New York Point) and the manual alphabet in which her renowned teacher Anne Sullivan first communicated with her. But let me dispense with the scare quotes for a moment. Helen Keller is famous--and justly so--precisely because she did, in many respects, overcome the physical impairments of deafness and blindness, as well as the formidable social obstacles facing people with disabilities at the end of the nineteenth century. Her story retains its power to startle and inspire even now, just as Anne Sullivan's story remains among the most startling and inspiring tales in the history of pedagogy. Keller's story is also a member of the genre of disability autobiographies in which the writing of one's life story takes on the characteristics of what the philosopher J.L. Austin called "performative" utterances: The primary function of The Story of My Life, in this sense, is to let readers know that its author is capable of telling the story of her life. The point is hardly a trivial one. Helen Keller was dogged nearly all her life by the charge that she...
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...Helen Keller was born June, 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her parents were Captain Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adam Keller. She grew up on a large farm called Ivy Green. Helen enjoyed the horses, dogs, and chickens. She began speaking at 6 monthes old and by the time she was a little over a year old, Helen was walking. In 1882, she was stricken by an illness. She was running a high fever with headaches for several days. This illness left her blind and deaf. Today it is believed she had brain congestion or scarlet fever. Helen became a very wild, unruly child throwing tantrums, kicking, hitting and seemed very frustrated. Her parents new something had to be done to help their daughter. In 1887, they contacted the Perkins Institute for...
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...Helen keller was an American creator, political dissident and instructor .She was the main hard of hearing visually impaired individual to acquire a four year certification in liberal arts degree . Helen keller was conceived on a plantaion called ivy green in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller was conceived with the capacity to see and listen. At 19 months old, she gotten a sickness portrayed by docto rs as "an intense blockage of the stomach and the cerebrum", which may have been red fever or meningitis. This is most likely bacterial meningitis. For various days Helen was relied upon to bite the dust, however at long last Helen's fever bankrupt. Her folks Arthur and Kate celebrated at her recuperation, yet were soon alarmed when Helen neglected to react to the ringing of a supper chime or when a hand was passed before her eyes. The illness left her both hard of hearing and visually impaired. Around then, she could discuss to some degree with Martha Washington the six-year-old little girl of the family cook, who comprehended her signs; by the age of seven, Keller had more than 60 home signs to speak with her family. Anne Sullivan landed at Keller's home in March 1887, and quickly started to instruct Helen to convey by spelling words into her hand, starting with "d-o-l-l" for...
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...Helen Keller was an American creator, political dissident and instructor .She was the main hard of hearing and visually impaired individual to acquire a four year certification in liberal arts degree. Helen Keller was conceived on a plantation called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller was conceived with the capacity to see and listen. At 19 months old, she gotten a sickness portrayed by doctors as "an intense blockage of the stomach and the cerebrum", which may have been red fever or meningitis. Her disease was most likely to be bacterial meningitis. For a number of days Helen was relied upon to bite the dust, however at last Helen's fever bankrupt. Her parents Arthur and Kate celebrated at her recuperation, yet were soon alarmed...
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...Helen Keller's Family Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. On her father's side she was descended from Colonel Alexander Spottswood, a colonial governor of Virginia, and on her mother's side, she was related to a number of prominent New England families. Helen's father, Arthur Keller, was a captain in the Confederate army. The family lost most of its wealth during the Civil War and lived modestly. After the war, Captain Keller edited a local newspaper, the North Alabamian, and in 1885, under the Cleveland administration, he was appointed Marshal of North Alabama. When Helen Keller Met Anne Sullivan At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind as a result of an unknown illness, perhaps rubella or scarlet fever. As Helen grew from infancy into childhood, she became wild and unruly. As she so often remarked as an adult, her life changed on March 3, 1887. On that day, Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to Tuscumbia to be her teacher. Anne was a 20-year-old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind. Compared with Helen, Anne couldn't have had a more different childhood and upbringing. The daughter of poor Irish immigrants, she entered Perkins at 14 years of age after four horrific years as a ward of the state at the Tewksbury Almshouse in Massachusetts. She was just 14 years older than her pupil Helen, and she too suffered from serious vision problems. Anne underwent many botched operations at a young age before...
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..." (Keller) Helen Keller was able to learn and graduate college with honors even though she was blind and deaf. Helen Keller is on of the world's most inspiring readers because she popularized Braile ,and she was instrumental in the fight for the rights of the handicapped. Helen Keller had an emotional childhood. When Keller was 19 months old, Keller contracted scarlet fever (4). Keller almost died. The fever subsided, and her family was shocked to learn Keller was now blind and deaf. Keller was born on June 27,1880. Keller often got frustrated with her inability to see and hear, and lashed out at whoever was with her. Keller wanted more than anything to...
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...Helen Keller Biography Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. Helen Keller was the first born child of two girls. Her mother’s name is Katherine Adams Keller, and her father’s name is Author H. Keller. Even being born a healthy child, she soon caught a disease known as brain fever, in 1882. At Nineteen months she lost her sight and her sense of hearing. When she was seven, Helen and her best friend, Martha Washington, came up with sixty signs so they can communicate with each other. For example when she wanted her mother she would rub her thumb against her cheek, or when she wanted toast she imitated cutting bread and butter. Even though she can’t see she loves to play pranks on people. Her favorite prank was to lock people in their...
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...Story of my Life by Helen Keller The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is an autobiography of Helen, a girl who was born without any abnormalities until the age of 19 months that she came down with a fever. Leading to an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain, the doctor said she might not recover, although she did survive it lead to her being blind and deaf as a result. Helen’s autobiography talks about her childhood when she met Anne Sullivan, to learning to use sign language, to being able to learn to read on her own, which led her to write her first short story titled "The Frost King,” to Mr. Anagnos, but was sad at the fact it was plagiarized and was found similar to, "The Frost Fairies" by Miss Margaret T. Canby, in a book called "Birdie and His Friends,” and how it affected her friendship with Mr. Anagnos had ended because no one believed that she did not intend to plagiarize the story. She also talks about her visit to Boston, to the Perkins Institute, and seeing other children who are blind and chat with them, "what joy to talk with other children in my own language" (Ch9). Helen also talks about going to Radcliffe College for the first time and overcoming obstacles with her teacher, Anne Sullivan; for example, when she could not get her books published in Braille in time and it was a difficult learning process but Anne had some difficulty signing into Helen’s hand. She talks about Anne and her new acquired friendships such as with Mr. Anagnos, Alexander Graham...
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...THE STORY OF MY LIFE By Helen Keller With Her Letters (1887-1901) And Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, By John Albert Macy Special Edition CONTAINING ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS BY HELEN KELLER To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life. CONTENTS Editor's Preface I. THE STORY OF MY LIFE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII II. LETTERS(1887-1901) INTRODUCTION III: A SUPPLEMENTARY ACCOUNT OF HELEN KELLER'S LIFE AND EDUCATION CHAPTER I. The Writing of the Book CHAPTER II. PERSONALITY CHAPTER III. EDUCATION CHAPTER IV. SPEECH CHAPTER V. LITERARY STYLE Editor's Preface This book is in three parts. The first two, Miss Keller's story and the extracts from her letters, form a complete account of her life as far as she can give it. Much of her education she cannot explain herself, and since a knowledge of that is necessary to an understanding of what she has written, it was thought best to supplement her autobiography with the reports and letters of her teacher, Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan. The addition...
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...Helen Keller was one of the greatest women who had achieved many amazing things even when they had obstacles in their way, but for Helen she didn't let her being blind and deaf stop her from learning and for always wanting to speak up. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was born as a regular healthy baby and nothing was found wrong with her until Helen was nineteen months old, she became seriously ill and during this time there was no medicine to help cure her fever. Everyone thought that Helen was not going to get better and that she would not going to make it. But somehow luckily Helen’s fever seem to have been going down and had later disappeared. After the fever, Helen did not returned back to the healthy baby she was before because she lost both her hearing and her eyesight....
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...horrifying and depressing start to life. But, over time the fog uplifted from her dark world, and she became a famous name in history. Annie Sullivan faced a harsh and discouraging childhood, taught Helen Keller, a deaf and blind girl, how to understand the world, and became an inspiration for teachers and disabled people everywhere. During her childhood, Annie faced several issues in family and personal health. She was born in 1866 in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Her family started with Alice and Thomas Sullivan, who lived in Ireland, but emigrated...
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...Being placed in new situations can be challenging for anyone. Depending on how new the situation is, change may require difficult habituation and the overcoming of hardships. “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” (Keller, 1960) The autobiography The Story of my Life by Helen Keller and the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri reflect this quotation. The life experiences of non-fiction character, Helen Keller, greatly reflect those of fictional character, Ashima Ganguli. Both of these women and their families are faced with the similar challenges of adaptation, overcoming adversity and forming a positive sense of identity throughout their lives. These challenges are overcome using literature and the consistent,...
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...This case study clearly demonstrates a form of plagiarism known as paraphrasing. Although Teresa claims she changed around the words of the text to make it her own; she still used “someone else’s ideas” (Junyk) and thoughts without citing accordingly. Many examples of paraphrasing exist within Teresa’s work. Throughout Teresa’s paragraph, many of her sentences consist of the same patterning sequence that the original passage follows. Her introductory sentence to the paragraph also reflects the same ideas presented in King Lear. Therefore, Teresa’s work not only follows similar sentence structure that is parallel to the original passage, but uses the same ideas and thoughts expressed in the academic source without properly citing reference to the author. Teresa has “failed to take into consideration the concepts of justice and human dignity that apply to sources in academic writing” (Junyk) through her lack of understanding of producing an essay using imitation. Essentially, she compromised her academic integrity as she knowingly took a passage from an academic source, altering it to make it her own. It is unclear whether this was done through intention or a lack of understanding. Many students may understand that copying and pasting from a source is an obvious form of plagiarism, but may not consider paraphrasing to be as well. Paraphrasing can also become challenging to acknowledge as a form of plagiarism, because it can sometimes be hard to distinguish between what you...
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...For Helen Keller, the most important day was she met her teacher when she was almost 7 years old. After Helen Keller met her teacher, her life changed totally, she studied knowledge, wrote books and became famous. For me, the most important day is the first day I went to primary school. I had no friends before I went to school. I didn’t go to kindergarten because my mother, who was a teacher, taught me at home. I learned without any classmates, I played alone and I shared my lunch with my mother only. I felt so lonely before I went to primary school. There was a school next to my home in my hometown. Every day at 5 pm, there were many students running out from school with smiling faces. Parents picked up their children and went home. I wanted to go to school like other children, chatting and playing with friends. However, I had no friends until I was 6. Before I went to school a month, I got a government letter saying I had to go to school because I was 6 which was the age to go to primary school. It made me excited. When I first went to school, I was so excited and scared. I had never met to other same age kids. I had no idea how to communicate with other kids even an opening conversation. When I was dropped off by my mother I was scared and cried. However, I was taken to a classroom by a teacher and I hid behind her. When my classmates saw that I was hiding behind the teacher, they made fun of me for a long time. I thought I would go home with a crying face but a few classmates...
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