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Helen Keller - A Miracle for Humanity
Helen Keller seems to be destined to create a miracle for human beings, or rather, God let her come to the earth to show ordinary people the dignity and greatness of people with disabilities. the dignity and greatness of the disabled. When she was one and a half years old, she suddenly suffered from acute cerebral congestion, and the high fever for days made her unconscious. When she woke up, her eyes were blinded, her ears were deafened, and she could not speak with that dexterous little mouth. From then on, she fell into a dark and silent world, into the abyss of pain.
March 3, 1887, was a very important day for Helen. On this day, the family hired a teacher for her - Miss Annie Sullivan. Annie taught her to write and sign language. When Mr. Arnagno of the Porkins School for the Blind read with amazement a letter from Helen, complete and authentic in French, he wrote: "No one can imagine how amazed and delighted I am. I have always been convinced of her ability, but it is hard to believe that she has achieved so much in three months' study, when it would take a year's work for any other person in America to reach this point." Helen was nine years old at the time.
However, it is almost impossible for a person to communicate with others in an audible language in a world without sound or light, because every exit has been closed to him. But Helen was a miracle. She went from hell to heaven step by step, though the journey was more difficult than anyone could have imagined. She learned to pronounce sounds by using her sense of touch to appreciate the fluttering of the throat and the movement of the mouth when pronouncing sounds, which was often inaccurate. For this reason, Helen had to practice her articulation over and over again, sometimes for hours at a time to produce a single sound. Failure and fatigue made her heart haggard, and a strong person even shed tears of despair. But she never backed down, night and day, hard work, and finally can fluently say "Dad", "Mom", "Sister", the whole family surprised to embrace her, even her favorite dog also seems to understand! The whole family hugged her in surprise, and even her favorite puppy seemed to understand her call, and ran to her and licked her hand.
In the summer of 1894, Helen attended the American Association for the Advancement of the Teaching of the Deaf and was enrolled at the Harmson School for the Deaf in New York, where she studied math, nature, French, and German. Within a few months, she could converse comfortably in German; in less than a year, she had read the German work Wilhelm Tell. The teacher who taught French did not know the sign language alphabet and had to teach it orally; in spite of this, Helen quickly mastered French and read the novel The Compelled Doctor twice. While in New York, Helen made many friends in the literary world. Mark Twain read her his wonderful short stories and they developed a true friendship. Dr. Holmes read to her from the Laws Bean collection of poems in his secluded home on the Merrimack River, and when the last two pages were read, Holmes placed a slave statue in her hands. The chains fell off this squat slave just in time for Holmes to say to Helen, "She is the liberator of your mind." The Doctor was referring to Miss Anne. Helen's heart was thrilled with the beautiful thoughts and sentiments of the human world, the timeless and deep love, and the down-to-earth pursuits, all of which were like seeds of spring y implanted in the heart. Since she was a child, Helen said confidently, "One day, I will go to college! I'm going to Harvard University!" That day finally came. Radcliffe College for Women at Harvard University arranged her entrance examination in a special way. She was seen running her hands skillfully over the raised Braille and then answering questions on a typewriter. After nine hours of back-and-forth, passing all subjects, with honors in English and German, Helen began college life with eagerness.
In June 1904, Helen graduated with honors from Radcliffe College. Two years later, she was appointed president of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind and began her social work for the blind. She received visitors from the blind every day and had to answer letters that flew in like snowflakes. Later, she toured the United States to promote educational and treatment programs for the deaf-blind. By 1921, the American Foundation for the Blind civic organization was finally established. Helen was one of the leaders of this organization, and she always worked to strengthen the Foundation. In the midst of her busy schedule, she never put down the pen in her hand and completed 14 books. The Story of My Life, Song of Stonewall, Out of the Darkness, and Optimism, all of which have had a worldwide impact. Helen's last work was The Teacher, for which she had collected notes and letters for 20 years, and all this and three-quarters of the manuscript were destroyed in a fire, along with them the Braillevin Library, and delicate craft gifts from various countries. If another person may be disheartened, but Helen learned from the pain, more determined to complete it, she quietly sat down in front of the typewriter, began another difficult trek. 10 years later, Helen completed the manuscript. She was relieved that the book was a gift to her teacher, Annie, who was also immensely proud of it.
November 15, 1956, erected in the United States at the entrance to the Perkins School for Blind Children on a plaque on the curtain, by Helen with a trembling hand opened, it reads: In memory of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Massey. This was no ordinary plaque, but one for those who had written a prominent chapter in the history of human civilization. Indeed, Helen dedicated her life to the welfare and education of the blind and won the respect of people all over the world, and the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" World Movement. On June 1, 1968, Helen Keller, a deaf, dumb and blind scholar, writer and educator who has written a brilliant hymn of life in the history of human civilization, said goodbye to the world surrounded by flowers. However, her indomitable spirit of struggle, her life with a legendary color, but forever in the history books, as the famous writer Mark Twain said: the 19th century there are two remarkable characters, one is Napoleon, one is Helen Keller.
(Prepared by Huang Wei according to the relevant information of Jilin Education Information Network)
"Reinventing Life" Seminar and Exercise Instructions
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I. Read through the whole text to grasp the article, and then collect the relevant information about Helen Keller outside the classroom to discuss: Why did Helen call Mrs. Sullivan as "reinventing life"?
Setting this question is designed to allow students to read the text on the basis of expanding the reading horizons, and then deepen the understanding of this article.
"Reinventing life" literally means "reshaping life, regaining life". But in this article, to remake life, means "the light of love shone upon me", originally, "I would have had no tenderness or sympathy at all in that silent and dark world." However, under Ms. Sullivan's education, "my" soul was awakened, and once again I had "light, hope, joy and freedom" (the word "light" here is used in its metaphorical sense). It was Ms. Sullivan who brought "me" back to nature and understanding. Ms. Sullivan also taught "me" to understand "what love is". As the author herself said, "She was the one who came to reveal to me the truths of the world and to give me deep love." In this sense, Ms. Sullivan is "the one who reinvents life," which expresses the author's immense love and gratitude to Ms. Sullivan.
The author says that the experience of the well house "awakened my soul and gave me light, joy and freedom". In connection with the content of the whole text and the author's life experience, think about: why did the author say so? Did you have a similar experience as a child?
Setting this question aims to let students y speculate on the important phrases of the text, and to be able to make a certain expansion, in order to expand the field of knowledge and deepen the reading experience.
Helen was one and a half years old when she was struck with acute cerebral congestion, and days of high fever kept her in a coma. When she woke up, her eyes were burned blind, her ears were burned deaf, and she could not speak with her dexterous little mouth. From then on, she fell into a dark and silent world, into the abyss of pain. With no knowledge of the outside world, her temper became erratic, and she was often in a rage. She often fell to the ground, let out a burst of screams; refused to wash her face when she got up; misbehaved during meals. About this experience when she was a child, Helen wrote: At that time, it was as if I felt tightly gripped by an invisible hand. So, desperately wanted to break free from this bondage. On this point, this article also describes, "I was, at that time, exhausted after weeks of anger and bitterness." The experience of the well house not only taught Helen the specifics of what the word "water" means - the author writes of her dawning realization - the word "water" is the word that is being used for me. The word "water" is this cool, wonderful thing that is running through my hands. This was the first time Helen gained the concept of the thing, which was a leap in thinking. Therefore, the author said with deep emotion: "The experience of the well house made me desire to know. Ah ! It turned out that everything in the universe had its own name, and each name inspired me with new ideas. I began to look at everything with a sense of wonder. Back in the house, everything I touched seemed to have a life. I remembered the doll that I had broken, and groped my way to the stove, picking up the pieces and trying to put them together, but I couldn't do it. When I thought of what I had just done, I repented and my eyes were drenched with tears for the first time in my life."
Three, love is not a specific visible and touchable things, but in life we can feel its existence everywhere. In the third part of the text, there are a few sentences exploring what love is in the Q&A between teachers and students. Find them and say what they mean, or you can imitate them and write a few sentences.
The purpose of setting this question is to make students focus on evaluating language, accumulating language, using language, and being cultivated by beautiful emotions in it.
Sentences in the text that explore "love" include:
"What is love?"
"Is love the scent of flowers?" -- In Helen's opinion, love is something that gives pleasant and good feelings.
"Is love the sun?" -- To Helen, "There is nothing better in the world than the sun, whose heat makes all things thrive." Love gives light and heat and makes all things thrive. Clearly, young Helen has taken love one step deeper.
"Love is a bit like the clouds in the sky before the sun comes out. You can't touch the clouds, but you can feel the rain. You know how happy the flowers and the earth would be to have rain after a hot day in the sun! Love also cannot be touched, but you can feel the sweetness she brings. Without love, you are not happy and do not want to play." --Love is invisible, but it always appears when you need it most, with it, you are happy, life becomes beautiful, without it, everything becomes tasteless.
Four, Miss Sullivan reshaped Helen Keller's life with her selfless love. Many of the texts you have read are related to love, summarize them and share them with your classmates.
The purpose of this question is to let the students learn from the past around the theme of "love", learn to organize and summarize, and use "communication" to develop students' oral communication skills, and get benefit from it.
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Helen Keller dispersed the darkness of life with the light of perseverance
Lu Yong
On June 27, 1880, Helen Keller was born in a town in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. Her life set an example for people to struggle with destiny.
Helen Keller was a world-renowned author and educator. Though fate robbed her of her sight and hearing, the woman clutched fate by the throat with hard work and resilience. Her name has become a symbol of resilience, and her legendary life has become a great spiritual force that inspires people to overcome bad luck.
"If you give me three days of light, the first thing I want to see is my dear teacher."
At the age of one year and seven months, Helen was blinded and deafened by a fever caused by a sudden attack of scarlet fever, making her a disabled person who was blind, deaf and mute. As deaf-blind children do not have access to correct information, the window of the soul is confined, resulting in her personality, violent temper. 7 years old, Anne Sullivan teacher came to her side, and since then half a century has been with Helen day and night, love and wisdom to guide her out of the endless darkness and loneliness. Helen's life miracles, are inseparable from the young outstanding deaf children's educator. Helen in her masterpiece "If you give me three days of light" in the article y express her love for Mr. Sullivan: "If you give me three days of light, the first thing I want to see is my dear teacher."
The day Sullivan came to Helen's home as a tutor, he gave her a toy doll and used his fingers to spell the word "d-o-l-l" (doll) slowly and repeatedly on Helen's little hand. Helen immediately became interested in this game. She imitated the teacher's movements over and over again, and from then on began to understand that everything in the world has its own name, and began to know her own name is "Helen Keller" (Helen Keller). After that, Helen learned and mastered French, German, Latin, and Greek. Helen's success in mastering five languages while being deaf and blind has been described as "the greatest achievement in the history of education".
Helen's "dumbness" was caused by a loss of hearing; her vocal cords were not damaged. At the age of ten, Helen began to learn to speak, because she could not hear other people and her own voice, she could only use her hands to feel the movement of the teacher's throat and lips when she pronounced the words, and then she imitated and corrected the sound thousands of times. When for the first time as a normal person to say "the weather is really hot" this sentence, surprise, she and Sullivan teacher realized that in front of their tenacity, there is no more insurmountable difficulties. During Helen's life, traveling around the world to give speeches even became an important part of her career.
In addition to her love of books, she also likes horseback riding, swimming, boating, love of theater and performing arts, rely on the indomitable will, Helen learned to lip-reading, can be heard through the "hand" Mark Twain recited for her short stories, with honors to the world's most prestigious school Harvard University. Reading not only made Helen a scholar, but also cultivated her beautiful mind.
She loved to wander through the forest on her own, and she loved to go boating on moonlit nights, relying on the fragrance of water plants and water lilies to tell her direction. She also likes to ride a tandem bicycle for a ride, in the gallop to experience the power and speed, and like a boy like in the chess match in the battle of wits and courage ...... She also loves nature, standing in front of Niagara Falls although you can't see the flying waterfalls of the world's triumphs, you can't listen to the deafening roar, but you can be from the air tremors The world's most magnificent waterfalls of the majestic and spectacular.
In museums and art stores, Helen is like using her fingers to "observe" the joys and sorrows written on people's faces, and can use her fingers to feel the beauty of ancient Greek sculpture, and to "see" the moon goddess in the changing lines of the freshness of Diana and the beauty of Venus. In 1937, Helen was given special treatment when she visited Japan, and was allowed to touch the Imperial family's art collection and a statue of the Chinese monk Jianzhen, which is considered a national treasure of Japan.
Mark Twain called her and Napoleon two of the most remarkable figures of the 19th century.
Helen studied under Sullivan for three months before attempting to express her feelings in tender words, writing her first ever letter. Beginning in April 1902, with the help of Sullivan's teacher, she began serializing her autobiography, "The Story of My Life," in an American magazine. The following year the collection was published and became a sensation in the American literary world, and was even hailed as one of the two most important contributions to world literature in 1902.
Many people did not believe that such beautiful writing came from a deaf-blind person. Mark Twain's testimony to that effect did little to quell the skepticism. However, Helen's achievements in her life gave the best answer to this: her life **** published 14 monographs. Over the past century, the story of my life has been translated into more than 50 languages, spread to every corner of the world. An expert once said that it "compares favorably with Rousseau's Confessions in terms of literary achievement." If Helen's tenacity to hold on to the throat of destiny is inspiring, her love is even more valuable to the world. When she first began to study with Ms. Sullivan, the bright little Helen easily learned to spell the names of many objects around her, but she could not understand "love", a very abstract term. Young Sullivan turned her love into immense patience, which enabled Helen to cross the insurmountable obstacles in the learning of blind and deaf students, and little Helen in the learning of knowledge at the same time, but also learned from Ms. Sullivan's love. With this love, 10-year-old Helen for a 5-year-old deaf-blind children successfully raised two years of education. Perhaps since then, she has set her mind on helping all the needy people like her in the world.
She gave love to the world, and the world gave her the honor of being the first woman in history to receive an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1955, when Helen's story was brought to life on the Hollywood screen in 1919, with her in the starring role.
Since Helen's childhood, every U.S. president has invited her to the White House as a guest, and she has also been recognized by the government as one of the nation's 30 outstanding individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the nation, won the Freedom Award from the president of the United States, and been recognized as a senior citizen of the U.S. In 1959, the United Nations launched a global campaign to name the world "Helen" in her honor. In 1959, the United Nations launched the global "Helen Keller" campaign named after her to support deaf-blind children around the world, and in 1960, her play, "The Miracle Worker," which depicted her experiences, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie. In the same year, the American Foundation for the Blind Overseas (AFBO) announced the awarding of the "International Helen Keller Prize" on Helen's 80th birthday to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of public **** for the blind. on June 1, 1968, at the age of 88, Helen finished her legendary life.
Human beings have many valuable ****similarities in the course of their development. People of different colors and under different systems in the world can draw strength from the story of Helen, inspire the fighting spirit, because the kind of courage to fight with their own weaknesses in spite of the difficulties of the spirit, is always a human **** the same spiritual wealth.
Why did Helen Keller succeed?
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Helen Keller's name must be known to everyone! When she was very young, an illness turned her into a deaf, dumb and blind person. So ordinary a person, why will be Mark Twain called the most outstanding women it, and even the whole world so think. Her faith was infectious, wasn't it? No one would have thought that such an ordinary person, a disabled person who was deaf, dumb and blind at the same time, would have learned to speak, to write, and even to see with her hands, and not only that, she learned to see a thing or an event with her heart. I would like to ask, as we, a normal person, what else can we learn? We just treat these things like slaves and make them do things instinctively. Helen aspires to what she would have done if she had been given three days of light, how she would have grasped them. And us, what would we do if we lost three days of light? We'd just be people who are just sitting there. I think three days may not even use, one day is enough to let us can not collect. But what made Helen stick to her life?
The disease was not intended to be the biggest setback in Helen's life, but it made her stronger. Some people might say that it was all because of her teacher. Then I want to ask you, if Helen has been that sink down, that teacher and what use? Knowledge of Helen's strength, so that she got back up from the place where she was knocked down by the setbacks, coupled with the teacher's careful education, to give birth to such a great woman.
The setback may be nothing more than a sign before success, as long as the people who have confidence, take the setback must not matter, but for some other people, the setback is like a nightmare, for them, it is all meaningless. Frustration may not be valued by anyone, just like the lotus leaves accompanying the lotus flowers, always making the success after the frustration seem more dazzling.
If success is the light, then frustration is a burst of darkness before the light, but it is only temporary, will not cover the world forever, after all, the light will eventually come. Angels will always protect only those who are brave enough to overcome the difficulties, and running away is a kind of degeneration, only that it is closer to the direction of the devil and farther away from the direction of the angels, and the cycle continues until it falls into the devil's way.
Helen Keller's World of the Mind
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Love Makes Our Minds Truly Free
Helen Keller said:Swedenborg teaches us that love makes our minds truly free. To this I can personally testify; love has a saving instinct when life is imprisoned by a condemnatory sense of loneliness and cannot be broken free or loosened. Once a man has a living, autonomous love, he is naturally able to do more good and to help his fellow man. Love, like a star sent from the night, leads us to heaven and opens up uncounted and unexpanded wills and thoughts hidden within us. Thus, whenever and wherever we are tested, struck, or frustrated, we can finally emerge from the predicament that limits us; and life becomes peaceful and orderly.
This passage is of particular interest to us because ...... Helen Keller was a world-renowned author, orator, politician and a rare champion of human rights. At the age of one and a half, she became blind, deaf and mute due to an illness, but as she grew older and gradually accepted the physical limitations imposed on her by the disease, she stood up bravely to face challenges from all sides, and finally, she became a world symbol of overcoming great difficulties and obtaining spiritual victories.
What kind of great person is the famous and energetic Helen Keller? Richard Harriet and Reeve Martin, who wrote the biography of Helen Keller, described her as being made by God out of a solid, lustrous material originally reserved for the making of saints. Her friend and patron, William Wade, called her the embodiment of purity.
Helen Keller has indeed always held the banner high for those who must arm themselves against disappointment, against blows. And the great difference between her and Joan of Arc is that she fought against an inner battle, the human heart. She refused to yield to her inner adversary. For her, the fight against despair and disillusionment was a lifelong struggle. Truly, I have long seen the darkness for what it is, she writes: and refuse to surrender to that paralyzing influence; in the realm of the mind, I will always walk in the light of the morning.
The Secret of Helen Keller's Power
Helen Keller's extraordinary life has attracted considerable attention. However, it is surprising that her kind of solid and unrivaled source of strength ...... religious beliefs are very few people understand. Helen Keller's achievements may confirm that: by its own spiritual strength, people are still very resilient, can also rely on it to succeed. The problem is that human beings are still human beings, still have a temper, easy to fall into frustration, and fall into a moment of despair. In order to overcome the weakness and powerlessness of the mind, she relies on a force that is more effective than personal willpower. I can't imagine my life without the presence of religion; it would be like living without a heart," she says.
Helen Keller found her religion when she gained a deep understanding of the realities of the afterlife. She was convinced that after death, the life of the spiritual world, will be liberated from the limitations of the physical body, then, this life in the heart of the unfulfilled aspirations, will be able to re-satisfy ...... especially her eagerly awaited family life. She once wrote with great sadness: What comfort is there in this world that can remove the pain brought about by my destiny of not having a husband and not being able to taste the joy of having children? Every time I think of this shortcoming in my life, the loneliness in my heart is like the everlasting, vast and boundless emptiness! In the next sentence, however, she then bravely breaks out of her inner self-pity and sorrow in a very personal way. She said: It's okay, I've always had a lot to do, and compared to the past, I have to do more now than ever before. In fact, as in the past, I still have faith in the future, because I know that one day, in another world, I will be clear, and all the regrets of this life will be gloriously filled and made up.
The theological theory that gave Helen Keller's heart special comfort came from the eighteenth-century Swedish scientist and prophet, Emmanuel Ridenour. The other world that Ridenbaugh saw in his visions gave her a new hope for life. Those of us who are blind, she writes, are always glad to know that there are others to show us the way in this boundless, confusing darkness. And it is a joy to know that one who has the gift of vision has shown us the way to the world of glowing, dazzling souls! For her, Ridenbaugh's testimony about the afterlife was like a breath of fresh air from God. As for his revolutionary mission, Helen Keller called it a great message. She wrote: It has given color, truth, and unity to my thoughts on life; it has raised my concepts of love, truth, and service to life; and it has been the most powerful incentive for me to overcome physical obstacles.
Helen Keller's Religion
How did Oredenbo's profound influence enter Helen Keller's life? Helen Keller did not grow up in a family of the denomination in which Ridenbaugh was involved. Her father was a deacon in the Presbyterian Church, in which he had been very active, and her mother was an Episcopalian. Her mother was Episcopalian, and her teacher, Ann Sullivan, was from a Catholic family, and according to Helen Keller, she was not a religious person at all. Although Helen Keller was baptized as a child, she had no special religious training, and she did not find her own spiritual support until she was sixteen.
At the age of sixteen, Helen Keller discovered Ridenour's writings, read them carefully, and was so moved by them that she immediately welcomed the New Church into her life. The term New Church was coined by Ridenbaugh to describe God's re-establishment and crowning of the spirit of the Christian faith. Later, according to Ridenour's teachings, it was also applied to church movements. Although Helen Keller never formally joined any of Ridenbaugh's churches, the teachings of the New Church were her lifelong beliefs.
As Helen Keller learned, the New Church is not a doctrinal doctrine, but rather teaches a loving approach to the world. It is an undaunted, bold kind of faith; rubbing and noble and humble, proclaiming the gospel of man's cosmic fellow-love, and of a gracious God's presence with man. Helen Keller began early in her efforts to proclaim the New Church. Especially after the publication of her book, My Religion, she spared no effort to promote the ideals of the New Church to everyone who had ears to hear. In 1928, she delivered a powerful speech at the national conference of the Ridenbaughs in Washington, D.C., encouraging believers to move away from parochial, religiously doctrinaire attitudes and to reach out to the masses with the gospel.
While Christianity was Helen Keller's chosen religious path, the Christianity she believed in was definitely of the masses and relatable, like the arms of the God she served wrapped around her. The doctrines emphasized by Ridenbaugh supported and confirmed what she had always believed: that every human life is sacred and important, and that true religious beliefs should be held with great dignity. As she grew older, Helen Keller's view of service to life and her y held religious beliefs became more and more integrated and indistinguishable. Once, after consoling those injured by the war, she said: when my hand on the other exhausted hand, ...... I felt as if I was participating in a sacred religious ceremony.
Helen Keller's Last Testimony
Just before her 80th birthday, Helen Keller, who was living in the town of Westport, Connecticut, asked her friends at the American Foundation for the Blind to find her a pastor of a Protestant church near her home. After contacting the Reverend Clayton Priestner, who belonged to the Ridenbaugh, New York, denominational church, Reverend Priestner immediately visited her at her residence in Arkham Ridge. During that visit, Rev. Pristner had administered communion to Helen Keller.
Seven years later, before she reached the end of her life's journey, Helen Keller once again focused on her new church. In her will, she clearly stated that she wanted her funeral service to be conducted with New Church rites and specified that the Rev. Pristine Turner would officiate. After her passing, however, Helen Keller's family went against their wishes and politely declined Rev. Pristina's services. As a result, her ashes were flown to Washington, D.C., and the funeral service was held at the National Cathedral instead. Rev. Pristina said afterward: the inner heart is more meaningful than the outer form. Importantly, Helen Keller had longed for a new church service. New Church services. Whether or not others followed her wishes after her death is just an external form, and is no longer relevant.
(Excerpts translated from "Light in the Darkness ...... The Spiritual World of Helen Keller")
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