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The thought of being blind and/or deaf is a hard concept to imagine. Imagine not knowing what is really going on around you.

You know that there are things, or people, similar to yourself in the world, but you don't know what there actual name is. Not knowing

the meaning of words, not being able to hear sounds or not having the ability to see things would drive a person, that had at one time

possessed these abilities, insane. Helen Keller is an amazing person because she had to deal with the frustration of not knowing anything

and the aggravation of having to learn everything, when it did not seem to have a connection to things in the

Miss Sarah Fuller came in March 1890 to give Helen speech lessons. Then in October 1894, Helen entered the Wright-Humason School for

...as the cool stream gushed over one hand, Annie spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still,

to be shunned because they were thought different, and Helen Keller helped to change this attitude. I think that Helen Keller was a great

lady whose life was spent not only in overcoming her own lack of sight and hearing, but in winning recognition for all handicapped

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