Optimism Within (American Roots) - Hardcover

Keller, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1429096101 ISBN 13: 9781429096102

Verlag: AMER ROOTS, 2015

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Rendered deaf and blind by scarlet fever at the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller—with the help of Anne Sullivan, other teachers, and her own determination—learned to read, write, and speak several languages. Keller became an advocate for people with disabilities and fought for human rights her entire life. In 1903, while attending Radcliffe College — she was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree — she wrote "Optimism Within." "If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing." This short work is part of Applewood’s "American Roots" series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America's most famous writers and thinkers.

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"It is unimaginable to live in a world of darkness and no sound. When I graduated high school, I worked in a cerebral palsy center, living there the rainy summer my friends went off to Woodstock. From a wise young supervisor, I learned that one cannot compare the tragic circumstances of one person over another. Each of us struggles with challenges, faces them and either overcomes them or is overcome by them. Of all the senses I feel most blessed to possess, a sense of optimism is my most cherished. As I grow older, it is the sense I fight most to preserve." —Phil Zuckerman, Publisher

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• Verlag: AMER ROOTS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1429096101
• ISBN 13: 9781429096102
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
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