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Optimism; An Essay

By Helen Keller

2020-03-23 22:17:38

Who better than Helen Keller to write about optimism? Helen Keller became blind when she was nineteen months old. At the time children who were deaf and blind were simply given up on. But Helen's mother read that a deaf-blind person had been educated ... Read more
Who better than Helen Keller to write about optimism? Helen Keller became blind when she was nineteen months old. At the time children who were deaf and blind were simply given up on. But Helen's mother read that a deaf-blind person had been educated and decided to explore that possibility for her daughter. As a result of this Helen Keller was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and she went on to be one of the most celebrated women of the twentieth century. Less

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File size150.344 KB
Print pages84
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2011-03-01
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781594622083
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Helen Keller
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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of Keller...

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