Helen Keller

On the afternoon of June 1, 1968, Helen Keller passed away in her sleep at the age of 87. Miss Keller became deaf-mute when she was 18 months old. However, she miraculously completed her life.

Helen Keller was born in 1880 in a town called Tuscumbia in northern Alabama. When she was one and a half years old, a serious illness took away her vision and hearing, and then she lost her ability to express language. However, in this dark and lonely world, she learned to read and speak, and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the United States, becoming a learned woman with mastery of English, French, German, Latin, and Greek. A well-known writer and educator. She traveled around the United States and around the world to raise funds for schools for the blind, and dedicated her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She has won praise from people around the world and received awards from many governments.

The most important thing for a deaf-blind person to escape from the darkness and move towards the light is to learn to read and read. And from learning to recognize words to learning to read, it takes extra perseverance. Helen relied on her fingers to observe the lips of her teacher, Miss Sullivan, and used touch to understand the vibrations of her throat, mouth movements and facial expressions, which were often inaccurate. In order to make herself able to pronounce a word or sentence well, she had to practice repeatedly. Helen never gave in in the face of failure.

In the 14 years from when Helen was educated at the age of 7 to when she was admitted to Radcliffe College, she wrote a large number of letters to her relatives, friends and classmates. These letters may describe what she saw and heard during her journey. Or they talk about their feelings, and some retell a story they just heard, which is very rich in content. When she was studying at university, many textbooks did not have Braille text, and she had to rely on others to spell the content of the book into her hands. Therefore, she spent much more time preparing for homework than other students. While other students were playing and singing outside, she was spending a lot of time preparing lessons.

Helen was able to walk out of the darkness and achieve such high academic achievements, in addition to relying on her own tenacious perseverance, it was also inseparable from the teachings of her teacher Sullivan. She said, "The day when my teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to my home was the most important day in my life." "She liberated my spirit." It was her teacher who taught her how to read and made her know that everything has a name. It was also her teacher who taught her what abstract nouns like "love" are. After Helen became ill and disabled when she was young, she became ignorant and surly, almost becoming a hopeless waste. But later she became a well-educated college student. This is indeed a miracle. It can be said that half of this miracle was created by Helen's teacher Anne Sullivan. It was the fruit of her noble dedication and scientific education methods. No matter what Miss Sullivan taught Helen, she always explained it clearly with a nice story or a poem. She had rich educational experience and unique teaching methods. She never locked Helen in a room. Carry out rigid and infused classroom education.

Helen used her tenacious perseverance to overcome the mental pain caused by her physical defects. She loves life and can ride horses, ski, and play chess. She also likes theater performances. She also likes to visit museums and historical sites and gain knowledge from them. When she was 21 years old, she collaborated with her teacher to publish her debut novel "The Story of My Life". In the next 60 years, she wrote 14 books.

As long as you face the sun, you will not see the shadow. ---Helen Keller

Facing the light, the shadow is behind us---Helen Keller

On the road of life, everyone will encounter difficulties and setbacks, just look Can you defeat it? If you defeat it, you are a hero and a strong man in life.----Zhang Haidi

Even if you fall a hundred times, you must stand up a hundred times.---Zhang Haidi

Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC) was an ancient Athenian orator and democratic politician. He learned rhetoric from Issa in his early years and later taught rhetoric. Actively engaged in political activities and strongly opposed the Macedonian invasion of Greece. Later, he organized an anti-Macedonian movement in Athens, but committed suicide after failure.

ppp In 330 BC, the Athenian politician Tesiphan suggested that Demosthenes be awarded a gold crown in view of his contribution to the country. Esgines, Demosthenes' political rival, opposed this practice, believing it to be illegal. Demosthenes launched a tit-for-tat struggle with him, openly debated with him, and used facts to prove that he deserved this honor. As a result of the debate, Tesiphan's proposal was approved and it was decided to award Demosthenes a golden crown. This was part of his defense at the debate.

ppp Esgini, I can conclude that you are using this matter to show off your eloquence and voice, rather than to punish evil and promote good. But, Esgini, the words and the pitch of an orator's voice are of little value. It is meaningful to be able to take the people's point of view as one's own point of view and the country's love and hate as one's own love and hate. Only those who have this in their hearts will speak every word with a loyal heart. If you flatter those who threaten the security of the country and the country and are alienated from the people, you will naturally not be able to expect to be safe together with the people. But - did you see it? —I have this security because my aims are identical with those of my fellow citizens, and my interests are the same as those of the people. Is this the case for you too? How is this possible? Although it is well known that you had always refused to accept the mission to Philip, you immediately became ambassador to Philip after the war, and it was he who was the chief culprit of causing great trouble to our country.

ppp Who deceived the country? Of course he is the one who thinks differently from what he says. Who should the person who reads the proclamation publicly curse? Of course it's the kind of people mentioned above. Is there any greater crime against an orator than that what he thinks is not what he says? That's exactly what your character is. How dare you open your mouth to speak, how dare you look these people in the face! Do you think they didn't recognize you? Do you think they are so sleepy or so forgetful that they have forgotten what you said in the meeting? At the meeting, you cursed others and swore that you had nothing to do with Philip. Did you say that I reported you out of personal grudges, and there was no factual basis for it? As soon as the news of the war came, you forgot all about it. You swore that you were friendly with Philip and that there was friendship between you - which was actually a new code for selling yourself. Esgines, you are only the son of the drummer Glaucodia, how can you become Philip's friend or confidant under what equal and just plea? I think it's impossible. No, absolutely impossible! You were hired to undermine the interests of the country. Although you were caught red-handed in an open rebellion and reported afterwards, you still insulted me with things that others might commit but I would not commit. Condemn me.

ppp Esgini, many of the great and glorious undertakings of our country and political system were accomplished by me, and the country has not forgotten my achievements. The following examples are proof of this: when it came time to choose who should deliver the post-funeral speech, you were proposed, but despite your beautiful voice, the people did not choose you; nor Demedes, despite the peace he had just made; nor Hagi. door or anyone in your group, but chose me. While you and Pesocles used a crude and shameful attitude (merciful God!) to denounce and insult me ??by listing the crimes you now cite, the people wanted to elect me all the more. It’s not that you don’t know the reason, but I still want to tell you. The Athenians know the faithfulness and zeal with which I conduct their affairs, just as they know the disloyalty of you and your company. ***When the country was prosperous, you swore to deny certain things, but when the country suffered misfortune, you admitted it. Therefore, those who seek to gain political security through the disaster of Japan and the Republic of China are regarded by our people as enemies of the people long ago when they did so, and they are even more recognized enemies now. For those who pay tribute to the deceased and praise the heroic spirit of the martyrs, the people believe that he should not be in the same room and eat at the same table with the enemies of the martyrs; After the disaster in Greece, he sang songs of joy and came here to receive the honor; he should not use his voice to mourn the fate of the martyrs but should mourn them sincerely. The people know this in me and themselves, but they cannot find it in any of you. So they chose me over you. This is what the people think, and so is the thought of the father and brother of the deceased who were elected by the people to preside over the funeral.

According to custom, the funeral banquet should be held among the close relatives of the deceased, but the people ordered that the banquet be held at my home. They have reason to do so: individually, each person is closer to the deceased than I am, but for all the deceased, no one is closer than me. Those who care most deeply about their safety and achievements grieve their deaths most deeply.

The soul of rhetoric is action, action, and action.

——Demosthenes