Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in Alabama, USA. Your deafblindness was caused by a fever in February 1882 when she was only 19 months old. His inability to communicate in such an early stage of development was very traumatic for her and her family due to this was nearly impossible for a while.
Despite their disabilities, many years later would give speeches about his life, and even write books about their experiences. This was possible thanks to the help and influence of her governess Anne Sullivan, who taught him to read and communicate with others, along with leading a disciplined life.
What challenges did they's have to face in life?Your deafblindness was caused by a fever in February 1882 when she was only 19 months old. His inability to communicate in such an early stage of development was very traumatic for her and her family due to this was nearly impossible for a while.
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She collected money to help people descapasitadas, needy and neglected.
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In 1918 the demand for their work had decreased, but they continued to travel with more interest, showing the amazing things about Helen, as the first time I understood the meaning of the word "water." That year, Helen, Anne and John (husband of Anne), moved to Forest Hills in New York. Helen used their new home as the venue for fundraising for the American Foundation for the Blind. She not only collected money, also campaigned to improve the quality of life and conditions of blind people who were wrongly rejected and educated in nursing homes. His insistence was one of the important factors for these conditions change. In 1957 he first presented "The miracle worker" a drama in which Anne Sullivan shows his very first forms of communication when Helen was a child, was the first television appearance in the United States. In 1959 this work was presented on Broadway and became a success for almost two years. In 1962 there was another movie where the actresses who played the role of Anne and Helen received Oscars for their performances. In October 1961, Helen suffered the first of a series of cerebrovascular accidents, and public life was closing. In the last years of his life he devoted time to care for her home in Arcan Ridge. In 1964, Helen was awarded the Presidential Medal of Friendship, the highest award given to civilians by President Lyndon Johnson. A year later he was chosen as Woman of the Hall of Fame in New York World's Fair. Shortly before his death in 1968 at the age of 87 years, Helen Keller tells a friend: "In these dark and silent years, God has been using my life for a purpose I do not know, but one day I will understand and then I'll be satisfied. " On June 1968, at Arcan Ridge, Helen Keller died in her sleep. His body was cremated in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and his funeral was held at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. The coffin was later taken to a place near where the remains also of Anne Sullivan and Polly Thomson.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. His father, James Roosevelt (1828-1900), was a wealthy landowner and railroad vice president of Delaware and Hudson. Roosevelt's family (see Roosevelt family tree) had lived in New York for over two hundred years: Claes van Rosenvelt, originally from Haarlem in the Netherlands, arrived in New York (then called Nieuw Amsterdam) around 1650. In 1788, Isaac Roosevelt was a member of the State Convention of New York, held in Poughkeepsie, where it voted to ratify the U.S. Constitution, a matter of pride to his descendant Franklin.
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In the eighteenth century the Roosevelt family divided into two branches, the "Hyde Park Roosevelts", who in the late nineteenth century were the "Democratic Party of the United States" or "Democrats"and the "Oyster Bay, New York "or" Oyster Bay ". President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican from Oyster Bay, was the fifth cousin of Franklin. Despite their political differences, the two branches continued getting along. James Roosevelt met his wife at a meeting of the Roosevelt family in Oyster Bay, and Franklin married the niece of Theodore.
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Around 1928 Roosevelt thought he was fully recovered to relaunch his political career. During the entire period of their retirement, was responsible for maintaining contacts within the Democratic Party. Attended in 1924 at the Democratic convention and made a speech supporting the nomination for the presidency in favor of the governor of New York, Alfred E. Smith. Although Smith was not elected to opt back in 1928 again and this time also had the support of Roosevelt. This time he succeeded, suggesting that Roosevelt chose to be Governor of New York. To be appointed as a candidate, Roosevelt had to make peace with Tammany Hall, which he did with great reservations. In the November election, Smith was soundly defeated by Republican Herbert Hoover, but Roosevelt was elected governor by a margin of 25,000 votes in a participation of 2.2 million. Born in upstate New York, had an easier time winning the votes of state residents who did not live in the city of New York with much more advantage than other Democratic candidates.
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In 1910, Roosevelt ran for the Senate of the State of New York, by the Hyde Park district, which had not elected a Democrat since 1884. The Roosevelt name, money and the current Democratic Roosevelt that year, he led the state capital Albany, where he led a group of reformers who opposed Manhattan machinery of Tammany Hall that dominated the state Democratic Party. Roosevelt was young (30 years in 1912), tall, handsome and well spoken, and soon became a figure within the New York Democrats. When Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1912, Roosevelt took office as Deputy Secretary of the Navy. In 1914, he introduced the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, but was heavily defeated in the primaries Backed by Tammany Hall, James W. Gerard. Between 1913 and 1917, Roosevelt worked to expand the Navy (with the important anti-war opposition of the Administration such as Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan), and founded the Reserve United States Navy to provide a reserve of trained men to be mobilized in times of war. Wilson sent Marines to the Army and Central America and Caribbean countries to intervene in those areas. Roosevelt, by his own testimony, was responsible for drafting the Constitution of Haiti in 1915, imposed by the United States. When the U.S. entered the First World War in April 1917, Roosevelt became the top administrator of the United States Navy as the Secretary of the Army, Josephus Daniels, had been chosen for political reasons and so played only representative functions.
Franklin Roosevelt with Brazilian President Getulio Vargas, in 1943.Roosevelt developed an affection for the Army for life. Showed great administrative talent and quickly learned to negotiate with congressional leaders and other government departments to approve budgets and achieving a rapid expansion of the Army. He became a strong advocate of the submarine and ways to combat the threat of German submarines to the Allied fleet, proposed creating a mine barrier across the North Sea from Norway to Scotland. In 1918, he visited England and France to inspect American naval facilities - in this visit coincided with Winston Churchill for the first time. With the end of the war in November 1918, was in charge of demobilization, although he opposed the complete dismantling of the army. In 1920, the Democratic National Convention chose him as candidate for Vice President of the United States on the ticket headed by the Governor of Ohio, James M. Cox. Republican opponents complained the eight years of mismanagement and called for a "return to normalization." The Cox-Roosevelt candidate was soundly defeated by Republican Warren Harding. Then, Roosevelt retired from legal practice in New York, but few doubted that they would soon return to the political career again.
