You're probably familiar with the name of Helen Keller. She's become a touchstone for triumphnoun.胜利 over adversitynoun.不幸 and even featuredverb.以…为特点 in contemporaryadj.当代的 music such as Helen Keller by DJ Khaled. While you may know that Helen Keller was a woman who had a disabilitynoun.残疾, you may not know the details of her story and what made her stick in the hearts and minds of so many people. Living with disabilitiesnoun.残疾 is challengingadj.具有挑战性的 and you'll come to understand that it's even harder to deal with when you're growing up.
As a young girl, Keller was already exhibitingverb.显示 remarkableadj.异常的 strength of characternoun.性格 in the face of adversitynoun.不幸. In this summarynoun.概要, we'll go further into her life as a child and adolescentnoun.青少年 which will no doubt inspireverb.激发 and motivateverb.激发 you to achieveverb.完成 what you want in your own life. In these chapters, you'll find out the strugglesnoun.努力 involvedverb.包含 in growing up deaf and blind, how one teacher saved Keller's life, and Keller's favorite book. Chapter one Since she was a baby, Helen Keller was both blind and deaf.
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