Optimism
Start Publishing PD · Print & ebook · May 15, 2024
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- Who it’s for
- Helen Keller connects her reflections on optimism with the story of her education.
- Genres
- Disability Memoirs, Women's Lives, Getting Motivated
- Published
- Start Publishing PD, May 15, 2024
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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.
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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.
Keller on Optimism
Helen Keller connects her reflections on optimism with the story of her education.
Come here for
- Helen Keller's perspective on optimism
- Her path to a bachelor's degree as a deafblind person
Expect
- The circumstances behind her mother's decision to pursue education
Where it sits
| Women's Lives | 61% |
|---|---|
| Getting Motivated | 56% |
| Disability Memoirs | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Essay Collections
- Personality
- Getting Motivated
- Authors
- Helen Keller
- Publisher
- Start Publishing PD
- Published
- May 15, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Essay Collections