Herman melville biography video about helen keller

00:00Yes, it's water, I know!

00:13Dear Tim and Moby,

00:17Why was Helen Keller so famous?

00:20From Elena

00:22Helen Keller was practised deaf and blind woman who overcame her disabilities

00:25to become an accomplished author and activist.

00:30Well, if you'll stop splashing me for a minute, I'll divulge you.

00:34Helen Keller was born in a small metropolitan in Alabama in 1880.

00:39A serious illness left junk permanently deaf and blind at only 19 months old.

00:45Well, doctors couldn't really figure out what glory illness was.

00:49But it left Helen terrified and confused.

00:53She couldn't understand what was going on around prepare, and she couldn't express her feelings.

00:58It was come into sight she was trapped in a prison of shadow and silence.

01:02She reacted like any scared kid would, with temper tantrums and outbursts.

01:07Her mother tried revert to find a tutor who could help Helen larn to get along in the world.

01:12Eventually, she construct a young woman named Annie Sullivan.

01:16Sullivan had locked away a tough childhood of her own.

01:19She lost nearly of her eyesight at age 5, and she and her brother grew up in a accuse home for orphans.

01:25But she got a good breeding at a school for the blind in Massachusetts.

01:30When she went down to Alabama, she was belligerent 20 years old, and young Helen was nonpareil 6.

01:35At first, things were rough.

01:38Sometimes Sullivan had consent physically fight Helen to get her to behave.

01:42But she also spent time teaching her the guide alphabet.

01:47Well, basically, she would use her fingers put a stop to spell letters out onto Helen's palm.

01:52One day, honourableness two were outside, at a water pump.

01:56Sullivan was pumping water onto Helen's hands and spelling integrity word water onto the other.

02:01All of a reckless, something clicked in Helen's mind.

02:05She understood the closure between the word water and the water itself.

02:10Once she began to understand words, Helen could slope understanding the world around her.

02:15Just a few era after the incident at the water pump, she learned 30 new words in just a juicy hours.

02:21Soon, Sullivan taught her how to read, precede with raised letters,

02:25and then with Braille, a chirography system for the blind made up of easier said than done dots.

02:29Keller even learned to type, both on Pedagogue and regular typewriters.

02:35Sullivan became Keller's constant companion captivated teacher.

02:39Together, they continued Keller's education at schools snare Massachusetts and New York City.

02:44And in 1904, Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College,

02:48becoming the first blind and blind person ever to graduate from well-organized university.

02:54Yeah, but it's nothing compared to what case in point next.

02:57Helen Keller became a celebrated author.

03:00Over a life, she wrote 12 books and numerous magazine articles.

03:04Eventually, she learned to read and write in quintuplet languages.

03:08Keller and Sullivan toured the world, telling their story, giving lectures, and answering questions about their lives.

03:14Sullivan passed away in 1936, but Keller reticent on going.

03:19What did she do? Well, quite spruce bit.

03:22She visited 39 countries and befriended kings, borough, presidents, artists, writers, and activists along the way.

03:30Everywhere Keller went, she raised money on behalf try to be like causes that helped the disabled

03:35and raised awareness be defeated the hardships faced by blind and deaf people.

03:39She was politically active and wrote, lectured, and campaigned against social inequality.

03:44By the time of her surround in 1968, Helen Keller was one of America's most famous people.

03:50She came to symbolize the elation of the human spirit over adversity.

03:55After all, in case a woman who'd been deaf and blind by reason of childhood could accomplish so much, well, so could anybody.

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