Ⅰ 求一篇人物傳記，英文的
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"Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely private, but who made solitude and introspection important themes in his painting.
"He was born in the small Hudson River town of Nyack, New York State, on 22 July 1882. His family were solidly middle-class: his father owned a dry goods store where the young Hopper sometimes worked after school. By 1899 he had already decided to become an artist, but his parents persuaded him to begin by studying commercial illustration because this seemed to offer a more secure future. He first attended the New York School of Illustrating (more obscure than its title suggests), then in 1900 transferred to the New York School of Art. Here the leading figure and chief instructor was William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), an elegant imitator of Sargent. He also worked under Robert Henri (1869-1929), one of the fathers of American Realism - a man whom he later described as 'the most influential teacher I had', adding 'men didn't get much from Chase; there were mostly women in the class.' Hopper was a slow developer - he remained at the School of Art for seven years, latterly undertaking some teaching work himself. However, like the majority of the young American artists of the time, he longed to study in France. With his parents' help he finally left for Paris in October 1906. This was an exciting moment in the history of the Modern movement, but Hopper was to claim that its effect on him was minimal:
Whom did I meet? Nobody. I'd heard of Gertrude Stein, but I don't remember having heard of Picasso at all. I used to go to the cafés at night and sit and watch. I went to the theatre a little. Paris had no great or immediate impact on me.
"In addition to spending some months in Paris, he visited London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels. The picture that seems to have impressed him most was Rembrandt's The Night Watch (in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). Hopper was able to repeat his trip to Europe in 1909 and 1910. On the second occasion he visited Spain as well as France. After this, though he was to remain a restless traveller, he never set foot in Europe again. Yet its influence was to remain with him for a long time: he was well read in French literature, and could quote Verlaine in the original, as his future wife discovered (he was surprised when she finished the quotation for him). He said later: '[America] seemed awfully crude and raw when I got back. It took me ten years to get over Europe.' For some time his painting was full of reminiscences of what he had seen abroad. This tendency culminates in Soir Bleu of 1914, a recollection of the Mi-Caréme carnival in Paris, and one of the largest pictures Hopper ever painted. It failed to attract any attention when he showed it in a mixed exhibition in the following year, and it was this failure which threw him back to working on the American subjects with which his reputation is now associated. In 1913 Hopper made his first sale - a picture exhibited at the Armory Show in New York which brought together American artists and all the leading European modernists. In 1920 he had his first solo exhibition, at the Whitney Studio Club, but on this occasion none of the paintings sold. He was already thirty-seven and beginning to doubt if he would achieve any success as an artist - he was still forced to earn a living as a commercial illustrator. One way round this dilemma was to make prints, for which at that time there was a rising new market. These sold more readily than his paintings, and Hopper then moved to making watercolours, which sold more readily still.
"Hopper had settled in Greenwich Village, which was to be his base for the rest of his life, and in 1923 he renewed his friendship with a neighbour, Jo Nivison, whom he had known when they were fellow students under Chase and Henri. She was now forty; Hopper was forty-two. In the following year they married. Their long and complex relationship was to be the most important of the artist's life. Fiercely loyal to her husband, Jo felt in many respects oppressed by him. In particular, she felt that he did nothing to encourage her own development as a painter, but on the contrary did everything to frustrate it. 'Ed,' she confided to her diary, 'is the very centre of my universe... If I'm on the point of being very happy, he sees to it that I'm not.' The couple often quarrelled fiercely (an early subject of contention was Jo's devotion to her cat Arthur, whom Hopper regarded as a rival for her attention). Sometimes their rows exploded into physical violence, and on one occasion, just before a trip to Mexico, Jo bit Hopper's hand to the bone. On the other hand, her presence was essential to his work, sometimes literally so, since she now modelled for all the female figures in his paintings, and was adept at enacting the various roles he required.
"From the time of his marriage, Hopper's professional fortunes changed. His second solo show, at the Rehn Gallery in New York in 1924, was a sell-out. The following year, he painted what is now generally acknowledged to be his first fully mature picture, The House by the Railroad. With its deliberate, disciplined spareness, this is typical of what he was to create thereafter. His paintings combine apparently incompatible qualities. Modern in their bleakness and simplicity, they are also full of nostalgia for the puritan virtues of the American past - the kind of quirky nineteenth-century architecture Hopper liked to paint, for instance, could not have been more out of fashion than it was in the mid-192OS, when he first began to look at it seriously. Though his compositions are supposedly realist they also make frequent use of covert symbolism. Hopper's paintings have, in this respect, been rather aptly compared to the realist plays of Ibsen, a writer whom he admired.
"One of the themes of The House by the Railroad is the loneliness of travel, and the Hoppers now began to travel widely within the United States, as well as going on trips to Mexico. Their mobility was made possible by the fact that they were now sufficiently prosperous to buy a car. This became another subject of contention between the artist and his wife, since Hopper, not a good driver himself, resisted Jo's wish to learn to drive too. She did not acquire a driving licence until 1936, and even then her husband was extremely reluctant to allow her control of their automobile.
"By this time Hopper, whose career, once it took off, was surprisingly little affected by the Depression, had become extremely well known. In 1929, he was included in the Museum of Modern Art's second exhibition, Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans, and in 1930 The House by the Railroad entered the museum's permanent collection, as a gift from the millionaire collector Stephen Clark. In the same year, the Whitney Museum bought Hopper's Early Sunday Morning, its most expensive purchase up to that time. In 1933 Hopper was given a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. This was followed, in 1950, by a fuller retrospective show at the Whitney.
"Hopper became a pictorial poet who recorded the starkness and vastness of America. Sometimes he expressed aspects of this in traditional guise, as, for example, in his pictures of lighthouses and harsh New England landscapes; sometimes New York was his context, with eloquent cityscapes, often showing deserted streets at night. Some paintings, such as his celebrated image of a gas-station, Gas (1940), even have elements which anticipate Pop Art. Hopper once said: 'To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're travelling.'
"He painted hotels, motels, trains and highways, and also liked to paint the public and semi-public places where people gathered: restaurants, theatres, cinemas and offices. But even in these paintings he stressed the theme of loneliness - his theatres are often semideserted, with a few patrons waiting for the curtain to go up or the performers isolated in the fierce light of the stage. Hopper was a frequent movie-goer, and there is often a cinematic quality in his work. As the years went on, however, he found suitable subjects increasingly difficult to discover, and often felt blocked and unable to paint. His contemporary the painter Charles Burchfield wrote: 'With Hopper the whole fabric of his art seems to be interwoven with his personal character and manner of living.' When the link between the outer world he observed and the inner world of feeling and fantasy broke, Hopper found he was unable to create.
"In particular, the rise of Abstract Expressionism left him marooned artistically, for he disapproved of many aspects of the new art. He died in 1967, isolated if not forgotten, and Jo Hopper died ten months later. His true importance has only been fully realized in the years since his death."
Ⅱ 愛迪生 人物傳記的英語作文
Thomas Edison is the world's greatest scientists, in 1847, he was born in the United States and Died in 1931, his childhood love our brains, a thousand lives a number of inventions, many of his inventions have changed the world, a light bulb is one of them, it makes it more time to study and work, though Edison has died 17 years, but he still lives around the world respect and love.
Ⅲ 人物傳記本傑明富蘭克林高中英語作文
Benjamin Franklin is one of the most beloved founding fathers in the United States. Maybe it was his famous twinkling eyes, or maybe it was his ease with people. Regardless, he embodied several characteristics that inevitably led to his success ring his lifetime.
本傑明·富蘭克林是美國最受愛戴的國父之一。這或許是因為他那雙智慧的眼睛，抑或是因為他的隨和個性。不管怎樣，他所擁有的品質為他贏得了終生成就。
1. He cultivated proctive habits
他養成了有效的習慣
Famously known for his 13 virtues, in which he organized a 13-week plan focusing on one of his thirteen virtues of temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, instry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility, Benjamin Franklin not only implemented important moral goals, but also found ways to hold himself accountable by marking his own progress. In addition, he formed a time table schele that had his day planned from the time he rose at 5am until he went to bed at 10pm.
在著名的「富蘭克林十三美德」中，他總結了13條周目標：節制、寡言、有序、決心、儉朴、勤勉、誠懇、公正、適度、清潔、鎮靜、貞潔和謙遜。本傑明·富蘭克林不僅踐行了這些道德目標，還通過記錄自己的進步來保證言出必行。此外，他還制定了一張時間表，將他從5:00起床到10:00就寢間的時間規劃出來。
2. He took risks
他願意冒險
Ben Franklin was by no means a cautious man. Famously known for writing letters in the name of 「Silence Goodall」 while working at his brother』s printshop, he also ran away to Philadelphia after his brother began to abuse him, ultimately running a successful print store.
富蘭克林絕不是謹小慎微之人。最廣為人知的事例就是，當他在哥哥的印刷店工作時，曾用筆名「沉默行善者」撰寫文章；而且，因為受不了哥哥的虐待，他乾脆跑到了費城，但這一出走卻使他後來成功經營了一家印刷店。
3. He perfected his public image
他為自己樹立良好的公眾形象
In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin states that he 「took care not only to be in reality instrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances of the contrary.」 In the words of Jonathan Yardley, Benjamin Franklin was 「a self-created and self-willed man who moved through life at a calculated pace toward calculated ends.」 He knew that the opinions of others mattered, and the importance of being able to network.
在自傳中，本傑明·富蘭克林寫道他「不僅實際地做到勤勉節儉，而且還避免出現任何不利的公眾形象」。用喬納森·亞德里的話來說，本傑明·富蘭克林是一個「自我經營、自我激勵的人，在生活中以計劃好的步伐走向計劃中的成果」。他懂得尊重他人看法，也知道交際的重要性。
4. He was a champion of the common person
他是芸芸眾生中的佼佼者
Never identifying with the elite, throughout his life Franklin identified himself as 「B. Franklin, printer.」 A strong believer in the power of community, he not only organized meetings and founded a library for his fellow citizens, but he also believed that pouring into 「the common good」 had a divine element. He is quoted stating: 「To pour forth benefits to the common good is divine.」 In other words, common people can find transcendence in giving back to their own community.
終其一生，富蘭克林從不認為自己是精英，而是自詡為「印刷工富蘭克林」。作為社區里的中堅信仰者，他不僅組織會議、為市民創建圖書館，還堅信投入公共福利是一件高尚的事。他說：「讓公眾受益是高尚的。」也就是說，普通人能從回饋自己的社區中得到升華。
5. He was an early riser
他是早起型的人
Famously quoted saying, 「early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,」 Benjamin Franklin rose at 5am every morning, asking himself the question 「what good shall I do today?」
俗話說：「早睡早起使人健康、富有且智慧。」本傑明·富蘭克林每天早上5:00就起床了，同時還會自問「今天我能做什麼善事」。
6. He knew how to network
他懂得怎樣活絡交際
Ben Franklin made friends and business connections everywhere he went. Never a shy man, he had a way with people. Walter Isaacson, a biographer, says of Franklin: 「he had a happy talent of being at ease in almost any company, from scrappy tradesmen to wealthy merchants…His most notable trait was his personal magnetism.」 This personal magnetism was a huge asset to him in both his business and personal endeavors.
富蘭克林無論到哪都能結交到朋友和業務夥伴。他不是怕羞之人，很擅長與人交往。傳記作家沃爾特·艾薩克森評價富蘭克林說：「他擁有令人愉快的本領，能夠和任何人自在相處，不論那人是愛爭論的小販還是富有的商人……他最有魅力的性格就是他的氣場。」 這一氣場是他個人及業務發展的巨大財富。
7. He was a creative thinker
他是個創意思考的人
Ben Franklin was definitely not one to think inside the box. He is quoted saying, 「to create, we must first identify the problem, then offer the best solution possible.」 To mention a few, some of his inventions and discoveries include:
富蘭克林可不是陷在條條框框里思考的人。在他看來，創新就是發現問題所在，然後努力找到最好的解決辦法。以下是他的部分發明與發現：
The Franklin Stove
富蘭克林火爐
The first library
第一座圖書館
Electricity
電
Lightning rod
避雷針
Glass harmonica
水晶口琴
8. He learned how to prioritize his time
他懂得如何優化時間
From his daily hourly schele to rising at 5am every morning, Ben Franklin found ways to maximize his daily proctivity. He is quoted saying: 「Lose no time; be always employ』d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.」 In other words, make the best use of your time and find ways to prioritize, in order to proce your best work possible.
從每天早上5:00起床的日程安排中，富蘭克林設法最大化提高自己的白天效率。他說：「不要浪費時間，隨時做有用的事情，杜絕任何不必要的行為。」也就是說，為了提高工作效率，我們應該盡可能利用並優化時間。
9. He was frugal
他很節儉
Ben Franklin included frugality as one of his 13 virtues. He realized the importance of living debt-free and spending minimally. He is quoted saying, 「a penny saved is a penny earned」 and 「when you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty.」 In order to live a proctive life, it is helpful to not be plagued by the stress of debt.
「富蘭克林十三美德」中，有一條就是「儉朴」。他認為不欠債不亂花錢非常重要。他說：「省一分錢就等於掙一分錢。」「如果欠債，那說明你又失去了一份自由。」若想過上富有成效的生活，就應該避免被債務壓垮。
Ⅳ 關於中國人物傳記(有小標題)的英文作文
Albert Einstein was bron in Germany in 1879.he started instered in Compass whe he was a little boy .he likes doing some small research by himself .he study high maths in high scool.when he finish the collage ,he moved to swiss and published the photoelectric effect speech.he became the most famous sincentist in the world .
At last ,he died in 1955.we lost a greatest scientist in the world.we miss him for ever.
Ⅳ 一篇英文的人物傳記
Name:guanzhong huang
Sex:male
English:Paul Wong
Birthday:1964-3-31
Nationality:China
Region:harbor set
Height:169
Usually introce:83 year, the Beyond constitute, for attending a music game, the Beyond hasn't model at that time, 84 years the PAUL join, Chen Anne left a brigade, 86 years, Liu2 Zhi4 far joined, but left a brigade in 88 years, and 4 people combined to formally model.The 85 years' Beyond's oneself's property openned the first singing performance 《 for forever 》, 86 year, Beyond oneself more the property created 《again see ideal 》the record, Beyond and record company make a contract, 87 year, 1 《wait for forever 》of EP, along with publish for 88 years of the third record 《old day footprint 》, the Beyond starts head for brilliancy.
Beyond this English sound of a character is nearby at"different of".They are different, but not that a first light of day that the Electronica of guitar brought fragile and dispirited Hong Kong music revolution.Work a singer, guitarist in the music band in the yellow Guan, with sound, compose, write words, plait song.
Ⅵ 人物傳記 英語作文 我的父親 高一水平 寫的現實一點 嫑百度搜 現寫 100個詞左右 外加翻
I love him,my father！
My father always stands in the center of my life, from past till now and possibly in the future.
My family was rather poor when I was in my childhood. We didn't have our own house and had to live in a shabby, small room rented from my father's factory. The room was so small that there was little space for people to walk. I didn't have my own bed and had to sleep with my parents. This is terrible both for my parents and me.
But father made this all different! Since the room was on the third floor, namely, the top floor in that old style building, the roof was quite high above the floor. So father got an idea. He bought two thick ropes and a flat wood that later was planed smooth, painted and drilled two holes on both ends.
Then he hung the ends of ropes up to the roof. During the daytime, these two ropes would be tied up so that people down could walk freely! When night came, father would loose the ropes and tied them to the two holes of that flat wood. The length of these ropes was just long enough for me to sit or sleep on the board without other's help.
So in this way my lovely, removable bed was born.
When winter came, this special bed obviously wouldn't be able to make me feel warm enough. But father always had his so lution! He built a garret using some flat wood and iron sticks right above the bed. With some used iron tubes, he made an iron ladder for us to climb up to the garret. Besides, he made a wood en desk for me to do my homework, and some simple furniture for my clothes, books and something else he had in fact made a small bedroom for me.
It's my father that is a great man!
Ⅶ 有關名人傳記的英語作文
亞伯拉罕·林肯傳
【內容提示】
請根據下列要點寫一篇有關亞伯拉罕·林肯的傳記文章：
①亞伯拉罕·林肯於1809年出生在肯塔基州的一間小木屋裡。他還很小的時候，全家搬遷到印第安納州的邊遠地帶。母親教他學文化。他受過很少一點正規教育，但他卻成了大西部受過最好的教育者之一。
②青年時期，他家搬到新建的伊利諾斯州。他很小就得自謀生計，但他在業余時間學習法律，很快就成了最有名的律師。
③1860年，林肯被選舉為總統。他是新共和黨的候選人。該黨反對產生新的奴隸州。這種主張遭到南方各州的反對，於是引起了內戰。
④ 1863年1月1日，就在內戰期間，林肯發布了著名的《奴隸解放宣言》。他宣布所有脫離聯邦各州的奴隸從即日起予以解放，結束了奴隸制。
⑤1865年初內戰結束。幾天後，林肯被一個叫做John Wilkes Booth的演員槍擊身亡。他遇刺的時間是1865年4月14日。
下列詞語供參考：
①Emancipation Proclamation《奴隸解放宣言》
②the Thirteenth Amendment 第十三條修正案
③seceding[si'si:diR] states 脫離聯邦的各州
④constitution[k&nsti'tju:M+n]n．憲法
【作文示範】
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. When he was a small boy, his family moved to the frontier of Indiana. Here, his mother tanght him to read and write. Lincoln had very little formal ecation, but he became one of the best-ecated men of the Great West.
When Lincoln was a young man his family moved to the new state of Illinois. Lincohn had to earn a living at an early age, but in his leisure time he studied law. He soon became one of the best-known lawyers in the state capital at Springfield, Illinois. It was here that Lincoln became famous for his debates① with Stephen A. Douglas on the subject of slavery.
In 1860, Lincoln was elected President of the United States. He was the candidate of the new Republican Party. This party opposed②the creation③ of new slave states. Soon after his election, some of the Southern states withdrew④ from the Union and set up the Confederate States of America. This action brought on the terrible Civil War which lasted from 1861 to 1865.
On January 1, 1863, ring the war, Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamnation. In this document, Lincoln proclaimed⑤ that all the slaves in the seceding states were to be free from that date. In 1865, after the war ended, the Thirteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution of the United States. This amendment put an end to slavery everywhere in the United States.
Early in 1865, the Civil War came to an end with the defeat of the South by the North. Only a few days after the end of the War, Lincoln was shot by an actor named John Wilkes Booth. The President died on April 14,1865. In his death, the world lost one of the greatest men of all time.
【詞語解釋】
①debate [di'beit] n．爭論；辯論
②oppose[+'p+uz]v．反對；反抗
③creation[kri:'eiM+n]n．創造；產生
④withdraw[wiJ'dr&:]v．退出；離開
⑤proclaim[pr+'kleim]v．宣布；公布；宣告
【寫法指要】
1）這是一篇記述他人的傳記（biography）。傳記指的是全面而真實地記載個人生平事跡的文章。傳記的寫作特徵有三：一是事實務求真實，表述可帶主觀性；二是按照歷史年代順序紀事；三是具有一定的格局，一般包括四部分：籍貫與家世、事跡與功業、逝世與後嗣、作者評論。本文對林肯的記述除缺少後嗣外，基本上是按上述三種特徵及四個部分寫的，只是作者評論少些。
2）名人的傳記少不了對歷史事件、地理名稱、文件文書、歷史人物等的描述，這些都要用大寫形式來書寫，對此我們從文中看得十分清楚。
Ⅷ 英文版的名人傳記
Bill Gates(比爾·蓋茨）
Bill Gates was born on Oct, 28 in 1955 and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a teacher. Bill Gates had his elementary school and high school ecation is Seattle. And it was ring that time Bill founded that his interests lying in writing programs and began to write programs at 13.
In 1973, Bill Gates was matriculated by Harvard but he quitted from Harvard three years later. He put all his time and energy into designing programs for Microsoft Cooperation which established in 1975 by Bill and his friend Paul Allen. He was committed to long –term development and improving the functions
Owing to Bill』 talent and efforts, Microsoft developed rapidly and its software won more and more reputations among the publics.
What』s more, Bill is also committed to philanthropy. So far, he has donated more than 24 billion dollars to establish a fund to support medical security and ecation careers in the world.
Bill Gates married Melinda French Gates on Jan, 1st in 1994.They have three children .In the spare time, Bill has passion in reading books and playing golf.
Ⅸ 用英語寫一篇人物傳記
Helen Keller was less than two years old when she came down with a fever. It struck dramatically and left her unconscious. The fever went just as suddenly. But she was blinded and, very soon after, deaf. As she grew up, she managed to learn to do tiny errands, but she also realized that she was missing something. "Sometimes," she later wrote, "I stood between two persons who were conversing and touched their lips. I could not understand, and was vexed. I moved my lips and gesticulated frantically without result. This made me so angry at times that I kicked and screamed until I was exhausted." She was a wild child.
That's Helen Keller,a greatest writer in the world.
We reported last week that Helen Keller suffered from a strange sickness when she was only 19 months old. It made her completely blind and deaf. For the next five years she had no way of successfully communicating with other people. Then a teacher Anne Sullivan arrived from Boston to help her. Miss Sullivan herself had once been blind. She tried to teach Helen to live like other people. She taught her how to use her hands as a way of speaking. Miss Sullivan took Helen out into the woods to explore nature. They also went to the circus, the theatre., and even to factories. Miss Sullivan explained everything in the language she and Helen used, a language of touch, of fingers and hands. Helen also learned how to ride to horse, to swim, to row a boat, and even to climb trees.
Helen Keller once wrote about these early days.
One beautiful spring morning I was alone in my room, reading. Suddenly a wonderful smell in the air made me get up and put out my hands . The spirit of spring seemed to be passing in my room. "What is it?"I asked. The next minute I knew it was coming from mimosa tree outside. I walked outside to the edge of the garden, toward the tree. There it was, shaking in the warm sunshine. Its long branches, so heavy with flowers, almost touched the ground. I walked through the flowers to the tree itself and then just stood silent. Then I put my foot on the tree and pulled myself up into it. I climbed higher and higher until I reached a little seat. Long ago someone had put it there. I sat for a long time... Nothing in all the world was like this.
Later Helen learned that nature could be cruel as well as beautiful. Strangely enough she discovery this in a different kind of tree.
One day my teacher and I were returning from a long walk. It was a fine morning but it started to get warm and heavy. We stopped to rest two or three times. Our last stop was under a cherry tree, a short way from our house. The shade was nice and the tree was easy to climb. Miss Sullivan climbed with me. It was so coot up in the tree, we decided to have lunch there. I promised to sit still until she went to the house for some food. Suddenly a change came over the tree. I knew the sky was black because all the heat which meant light to me had died out of the air. A strange odor came up to me from the earth . I knew it. It was the odor which always comes before a thunder storm. I felt alone, cut off from friends, high above the firm earth. I was frightened and wanted my teacher. wanted to get down from that tree quickly, but I was no help to myself. There was a moment of' terrible silence. Then a sudden and violent wind began to shake the tree and its leaves kept coming down all around me. I almost fell. I wanted to jump, but was afraid to do so. I tried to make myself small in the tree as the branches rubbed against me. Just us I thought that both the tree and I were going to fall, a hand touched me . It was my teacher. I held her with all my strength, then shook with joy to feel the solid earth under my feet.
Miss Sullivan stayed with Helen for many year. She taught Helen how to read, how to write and how to speak. She helped her to get ready for school and college. More than anything, Helen wanted to do what others did, and do it just as well. In time Helen did go to college and completed her studies with high honors. But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages. Miss Sullivan and others had to teach her what was in these books by forming words in her hands. The study of geometry and physics was especially difficult. Helen could only learn about squares, triangles and other geometrical forms by making them with wires. She kept feeling the different shapes of these wires until she could see them in her mind.
During her second year college Miss Keller wrote the story of her life and what a college meant to her. This is what she wrote.
My first day at Radcliffe college was of great interest. Some powerful force inside me made me test my mind. I wanted to learn if it was as good as that of others. I learned many things at college. One thing I slowly learned was that knowledge does not just mean power, as some people say. Knowledge leads to happiness because to have it is to know what is true and real. To know what great man of the past had thought, said, and done is to feel the heartbeat of humanity down through the ages.
All of Helen Keller's knowledge reached her mind through her sense of touch and smell, and of course her feelings. To know a flower was to touch it, feel it and smell it. This sense of touch became greatly developed as she got older. She once said that hands speak almost as loudly as words. She said the touch of some hands frightened her. The people seemed so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking bands with a storm. She found the hands of others full of sunshine and warmth. Strangely enough Helen Keller learned to love things she could not hear, music for example. She did this through her sense of touch. When waves of air beat against her, she felt them. Sometimes she put her hand to a singer's throat. She often stood for hours with her hands on a piano while it was played. Once she listened to an organ. Its powerful songs made her moved her body in rhythm with the music. She also liked to go to museums. She thought she understood sculptures as well as others. Her fingers told her the true size and the feel of the material.
What did Helen Keller think of herself, what did she think about the tragic lost of her sight and hearing. This is what she wrote as a young girl.
Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist. I sit alone, and wait at life ' s shut-door. Beyond there is light and music and sweet friendship. But I may not enter. Silence sits heavy upon my soul. Then comes hope with a sweet smile and said
softly " There is joy in forgetting oneself And so I tried to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
Helen Keller was tall and strong. When she spoke, her face looked very alive. It helped to give meaning to her words. She often felt the faces of close friends when she was talking to them to discover their feelings. She and Miss Sullivan both were known for their sense of humor. They enjoyed jokes and laughing at funny things that happened to themselves or others. Helen Keller had to work hard to support herself after she finished college. She spoke to many groups around the country. She wrote several books and she made one movie based on her life. Her main goal was to increase public interest in the difficulties of people with physical problems. The work Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan did has been written and talked about for many years. Their success showed how people can conquer great difficulties. Anne Sullivan died in 1936, blind herself. Before Miss Sullivan died, Helen wrote and said many kind things about her.
It was the genius of my teacher, her sympathy, her love which made my first years of ecation so beautiful. My teacher is so near to me that I do not think of myself as a part from her. All the best of me belongs to her. Everything I am today was awakened by her loving touch .
Helen Keller died on June 1st, 1968. She was 87 year old. Her message of courage and hope remains.
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