紧急!大家有没有海伦凯勒简短的英文简介啊`!快帮下忙!

紧急!大家有没有海伦凯勒简短的英文简介啊`!快帮下忙!
紧急!大家有没有海伦凯勒简短的英文简介啊`!快帮下忙!

紧急!大家有没有海伦凯勒简短的英文简介啊`!快帮下忙!
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia,Alabama on June 27,1880.Her infancy was normal until,at a year and a half of age,she contracted meningitis.The disease rendered her both deaf and blind.The next years were hellish for her family,as they knew of no way to reach through her double disabilities to communicate with her.As for herself,she was imprisoned in her body,and lonely,unable to make her needs and desires known.
Alexander Graham Bell was not just the inventor of the telephone.He was also a teacher of the deaf.Keller's family contacted him and when he met her he sensed her innate intelligence.He suggested that the family hire a young woman named Anne Sullivan to tutor the young Helen.The family was well off and able to afford this tutoring for their child,so they contacted Miss Sullivan.
Anne Sullivan was herself partially blind.She had studied at the Perkin's Institute for the Deaf and Blind in Boston,and at the age of 21 hired on to live with the Keller family and work with Helen.Sullivan devised a method of making hand signs that Keller could understand by pressing her hand,making the signs,into Keller's palm.By this method the young girl was able to learn to communicate brilliantly.By her eighth birthday she was well known,and her fame would grow throughout her life.Mark Twain befriended her and called her The Miracle Worker.
Helen Keller went to Ratcliffe College,and by means of Sullivan spelling out lectures into her palms,she obtained a degree.During her years at school,encouraged by the Ladies' Home Journal magazine,she wrote her autobiography,entitled,The Story Of My Life,in order to answer the endless curiosity of people across the globe.She even learned to speak by pressing her fingers against Sullivan's throat and imitating the vibrations.She was the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college,and she did so Cum Laude.
Throughout her life she would meet many famous people and have many experiences.She met with every President who served in her lifetime.She even had the experience of enjoying music,thanks to the violin and talent of Jascha Heifetz,a prominent 20th century violinist.By feeling the violin's vibrations she could tell which composer's music was being played.She also danced in Martha Graham's studio by feeling the vibrations of the music.
She spent much of her life on the lecture circuit with her teacher and companion,Anne Sullivan.Sullivan briefly married,but divorced and return to work with Keller.Keller became a champion for the blind,published numerous books throughout her lifetime,and participated in speaking out against such things as child labor and capital punishment.
The Gold Medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences was conferred upon her in 1952.In 1953 she was honored at the Sorbonne in Paris,France's highest honor.In 1955 she won an Academy Award for her documentary,"Helen Keller In Her Story" and received an honorary degree from Harvard.In 1964 she was given the United States' highest civilian honor,the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B.Johnson.
Helen Keller died at the age of eighty-eight on June 1,1968.Her legacy lives on as Foundations and Institutes are formed to continue the work of putting an end to blindness.The Helen Keller Prize is awarded to those who focus the attention of the public on the matter of vision research.

可以上这两个网站有很全面的介绍：第一个长些，第二个短点。http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp
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Helen Keller (1880-1968)


Imagine that you couldn't see these words or hear them spoken. But you could still talk, write, read, and make friends. In fact, you went to college, wrote ne...

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Helen Keller (1880-1968)


Imagine that you couldn't see these words or hear them spoken. But you could still talk, write, read, and make friends. In fact, you went to college, wrote nearly a dozen books, traveled all over the world, met 12 U.S. presidents, and lived to be 87. Well, there was such a person, and she was born over a hundred years ago!
Meet Helen Keller, a woman from the small farm town of Tuscumbia, Alabama who taught the world to respect people who are blind and deaf. Her mission came from her own life; when she was 1 1/2, she was extremely ill, and she lost both her vision and hearing. It was like entering a different world, with completely new rules, and she got very frustrated. By the time she was 7, her parents knew they needed help, so they hired a tutor named Anne Sullivan.

Helen Keller at age 7


Anne was strict, but she had a lot of energy. In just a few days, she taught Helen how to spell words with her hands (called the manual alphabet, which is part of the sign language that deaf people use.) The trouble was, Helen didn't understand what the words meant—until one morning at the water pump (like an outdoor water fountain) she got a whole new attitude.
Anne Sullivan


Anne had Helen hold one hand under the water. Then she spelled "W-A-T-E-R" into Helen's other hand. It was electric! The feeling turned into a word. Immediately, Helen bent down and tapped the ground; Anne spelled "earth." Helen's brain flew; that day, she learned 30 words.

From then on, Helen's mind raced ahead. She learned to speak when she was ten by feeling her teacher's mouth when she talked. Often people found it hard to understand her, but she never gave up trying. Meanwhile, she learned to read French, German, Greek, and Latin in braille! When she was 20, she entered Radcliffe College, the women's branch of Harvard University. Her first book, called The Story of My Life, was translated into 50 languages. (She used two typewriters: one regular, one braille.) She wrote ten more books and a lot more articles! How did she find the time?


Helen also did research, gave speeches, and helped raise money for many organizations, such as the American Foundation for the Blind and the American Foundation for the Overseas Blind, which is now called Helen Keller Worldwide. From 1946 and 1957, she went around the world, speaking about the experiences and rights of people who are blind. She wound up visiting 39 countries on five different continents! Helen also inspired many works of art, including two Oscar-winning movies, and received dozens of awards, such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that an American civilian can receive. She died in her sleep in 1968.

Helen became an exceptional leader, once she saw the potential in her own mind.
http://afb.org/braillebug/helen_keller_bio.asp

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