HELEN KELLER

Helen keller was born in

tuscumbia, alabamaLIFE th june ABOUT HER on 27 1880. At the age of 19 months she became blind and deaf due to congestion in her brain and stomach.

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made up 60 different signs to commnicate with her family. The perkins institute provided her a teacher,anne sullivan who herself was blind.but she could understand helen.

Anne

taught her for years. Helen learned to read BRAILE.this was a system of raised dots, representating letters.A blind person could feel the dots and read.

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wrote the story of my life. It was published serially in the ladies home journal and, in 1902,as a book. By the time she had graduated in 1904 she had mastered 5 languages.

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1909 keller became a socialist and was active in various campaigns incliding those in favour of birth control,trade unionism and against child labour and capital punishment.

Keller

joined the socialist party of america and campaigned for eugene debs and is running mates,emil seidel,in the 1912 presidential election. In 1913 a book on kellers socialist views, out of dark,was published.

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1912 keller joined the Industrial Workers of the World(IWW).a socialist trade union group that opposed the policies of American Federation of Labour. Keller also wrote articles for the socialist journals, the masses.

Keller,

a pacifist, believed that the first world war has been caused by the imperialist competative system and that the USA should remain neutral.

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to one critic: In the final and the most inspirational sequence, we see the real Helen Keller working tirelessly as a public figure to improve conditions for other blind people, and helping them to learn useful trades.

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Helen Keller decided after 1921 that her main work was to be devoted to raising funds for the American Foundation of the Blind, her activities for the socialist movement diminished but did not cease.

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childhood education was depicted in The Miracle Worker, a play by William Gibson, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. An Oscar-winning feature film in 1962, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, appeared two years later.

Philip

S. Foner has argued: "No matter what social cause she espoused, Keller was always on the radical side of the movement." Helen Keller died in Westport, Connecticut, on 1st June, 1968.

The World I Live In

The Story of My Life

Thank you.
Prepared By :-Neelam Kardanee