Helen: So you said human eyes can't even see you there even humans have eyes?
Punch: Umm....yeah...? You actually can hear what I am really thinking?!
Helen: Wait......so you didn't talk from your mouth?
Helen: Oh.....I also not talking as well.
Punch: Great.....so you hear everything that I'm thinking.....man....
Helen: So in this room, is there anyone here?
Helen: So you are a goddess?
Punch: Um, no. You could say I am an alien.
Punch: Wait.....so you don't know Alien?!
Helen: Say....can you teach me what you have known?
Punch: Hmm.....okay. But I have a better way to teach you, Ms Helen.
Helen: By books or by hand?
Punch: I can show you even if you're human. Imagination invites us to breathe, to dream, and to be fully present to the wonder of it all. It can even become a spiritual practice of its own—but we have to choose it.
Punch: Imagination is another faculty of the soul which requires the body. Spirituality involves the recognition of a feeling or sense or belief that there is something greater than myself, something more to being human than sensory experience and that the greater whole of which we are part is cosmic or divine in nature.
Helen: Say......You still call me a human?
Punch: Er.....you are? You are just a normal human who is just deaf, blind and mighty, that's all.
Helen: .................!
Punch: Okay! Let's start. I will share some of my memories from what I study as human then.
Spirituality can significantly influence a person’s decision-making process. It is a process of encouraging people to lead a content life and build a better relationship with themselves and others. Studies 10 have shown that it can help to reduce stress, anxiety, or depression since it brings a sense of peace to your being. Some of the positive effects of practicing it can include: Having a higher sense of purpose and peace Having a greater sense of self-esteem and self-control Being able to regulate your emotions for your highest good Ensuring faster recovery from illnesses Having an excellent relationship with yourself and others Decreased anxiety and stress.
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Helen: I'm still thinking about Peter....
Punch: Oh....you mean....Peter Fagan.....
She’d given lectures across the country and written several books. Yet Sullivan and Keller’s relatives “felt adamantly that marriage and childbearing were not options for a deaf-blind woman,” Nielsen writes.
At that time, this attitude was common. In some states and cities in the United States “ugly laws” prohibited people with disabilities from being out in public. Families often kept their disabled family members hidden. In many states, disabled women weren’t permitted to marry and have children.
Keller “apparently acquiesced” to her family’s and Sullivan’s disapproval of her marrying Fagan, Nielsen writes. As far as we know, Keller didn’t interact with Fagan again after their marriage was nixed.
Punch: During her remarkable life, Keller stood as a powerful example of how determination, hard work, and imagination can allow an individual to triumph over adversity. By overcoming difficult conditions with a great deal of persistence, she grew into a respected and world-renowned activist who labored for the betterment of others. She did listen to my advice after all...."imagination".
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
Note: This blog(Below) inspired me to make Helen Keller. I saw Helen just ennui and only play with her clothes that don't know what colour is this cloth. Even this art is not Helen.
Helen Keller with actress Patty Duke, who portrayed Keller in both the play and film "The Miracle Worker," in 1962.
In 1918, teachers in the United States adopted braille as the official writing system for people who are blind, thanks in great part to Helen Keller. She was a very eloquent and influential proponent for this writing system.
Similarly, Sullivan "fingerspelled" into Helen's hand the name of separate objects. It wasn't until, famously, the teacher spelled "w-a-t-e-r" into Helen's hand, while running water over her hand that the connection between letters and words and objects was made, and the idea of language was revealed. It was just weeks after Sullivan had arrived in Alabama.
I did nothing but explore with my hands and learn the name of every object that I touched; and the more I handled things and learned their names and uses, the more joyous and confident grew my sense of kinship with the rest of the world.
The two left Alabama for Perkins that winter and spent many subsequent winters at the school, where Helen, for the first time, communicated (through fingerspelling) with other children her age. As she got older, and with Sullivan constantly by her side, Keller learned other methods of communication, including Braille and a method known as Tadoma, in which hands on a person's face — touching lips, throat, jaw and nose — are used to feel vibrations and movements associated with speech. Keller, too, learned to speak, though it was one of the great sadnesses of her life that she was never able to speak as clearly as she would have liked.
Who is Helen Keller and why is she famous?
Helen Keller was a disability rights advocate who went deaf and blind at the age of nineteen months. Despite her disability, she proved to educators and people around the world given the right support, any student can learn. She’s known for her courage, intelligence, perseverance and deep compassion for others.
How did Helen Keller read lips?
Helen Keller utilized a method known as Tadoma to read lips. In this approach, hands are placed on a person's face, touching their nose, jaw, throat and lips to feel speech movements.
How did Helen Keller help the blind and deaf?
Helen Keller emerged as the most popular disability advocate in the 20th century and proved that deafblind people are capable and can learn.
What is Helen Keller best known for?
Helen Keller is the most popular example of deafblind teaching and learning. After she bonded with her teacher at a young age, she went on to graduate from college - something that was unheard of in the disabled community at the time.
The Braille Alphabet Delivers Literacy and Independence
Braille code is a writing system which enables blind and partially sighted people to read and write through touch. Braille consists of patterns of raised dots arranged in cells of up to six dots in a 3×2 configuration. Each cell represents a braille letter, numeral or punctuation mark. Some frequently used words and letter combinations also have their own single cell patterns.
- Grade 1: consists of the 26 standard letters of the alphabet and punctuation. It’s mainly used by people who just started reading braille.
- Grade 2: consists of the 26 standard letters of the alphabet, punctuation and contractions. The contractions are employed to save space because a braille page cannot fit as much text as a standard printed page. Books, signs in public places, menus, and most other braille materials are written in Grade 2 braille.
- Grade 3: is used only in personal letters, diaries, and notes. It is a kind of shorthand, with entire words shortened to a few letters.
The braille alphabet was invented by Louis Braille (1809-1852), a French teacher who worked with students who where blind. Louis was blind as well and is widely known as the “father of braille”. Check out the history of braille page for more details on Louis Braille and his creation of braille code.
Braille has been adapted to many different languages and is also used for musical and mathematical notation. Contact Braille Works today to learn how we can help with all of your braille and alternative format needs.
The result of this research are the characteristics of Helen Keller in term of angry, naughty, curiosity, struggle, eager, clever, dilligent, care, confident, brave, independent. There are also some factors that influence the characteristics of Helen Keller, such as: Influence from family, teacher and famous people.
Most famous for her personal triumph over the limitations of both blindness and deafness, Helen Keller was one of the twentieth century’s leading advocates for individuals with disabilities. Born in Alabama in 1880, she was left both blind and deaf at nineteen months as a result of what the doctors then called “brain fever” (probably scarlet fever). As a small child, she was viewed as unteachable and left to run wild, her inability to communicate prompting frequent rages. Reading of the Perkins School for the Blind’s success with another deaf-blind girl, her parents ultimately asked the school to send Helen a teacher. Twenty-year-old Anne Sullivan, herself partially blind, arrived at the Kellers’ plantation in March 1887. Sullivan’s first goal was to get Keller to understand the connection between words (which she signed into Keller’s hand using a manual alphabet) and their meaning. After a month of struggle, a breakthrough came at the water pump. By that summer, Keller had learned the entire alphabet and was writing her first letter, to her mother.
Keller’s remarkable progress did not stop there. With Sullivan as her tutor and companion, she furthered her education at various northern schools, learning to read braille and mastering the art of manual lip reading. She enrolled in Radcliffe College in 1900 and graduated cum laude in 1904, having taken the same exams as every other student and written a best-selling autobiography along the way. She then launched into a lifelong career as author and lecturer, raising awareness and money for a variety of often-controversial causes, including women’s suffrage, pacifism, the labor movement, and socialism. In 1924, she became the official spokeswoman for the newly formed American Federation for the Blind; she would serve in this role for the rest of her life. Keller’s work helped profoundly alter the public’s perceptions about individuals with disabilities.
This image of Keller appeared as the frontispiece for her article in Century magazine in January 1905. Entitled “A Chat about the Hand,” the piece focused on how Keller used her sense of touch to understand and communicate with her world. “Paradise,” she declared in the first paragraph, “is attained by touch; for in touch all is love and intelligence.” Underscoring the importance of touch for Keller is the book written in braille on her lap.
