She tried to teach Helen to live like other people.

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But Helen wanted to keep trying. She said, "I think it will make my mind stronger to do it now."

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Helen looked straight up at the sky as if a lost memory or thought of some kind was coming back to her.

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Helen also learned how to ride a horse, to swim,to row a boat and, even to climb trees.

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Helen was on the floor, kicking and screaming and trying to pull the chair out from under me.

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Like Helen Martins, outsider artists add new life, imagination and skill to the world of creative expression.

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Miss Sullivan taught Helen many things -- to read and write, and even to use a typewriter.

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Helen Murray Free is known for helping to launch organizations that help increase public interest in science.

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Helen Martins hired two workers to help her create her Owl House and the surrounding Camel Yard.

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So I asked them to let me move with Helen into a small one-room house nearby.

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More than anything, Helen wanted to do what others did, and do it just as well.

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Helen had to learn how to use her hands and fingers to speak for her.

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Strangely enough, Helen Keller learned to love things she could not hear, music for example.

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Yet Helen Keller was able to do so much with her days and years.

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Major donors to the festival include the Helen Ruth Henderson Foundation, the states of Kuwait and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates Embassy in Washington D.C.

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Helen Keller had to work hard to support herself after she finished college.

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In nineteen-oh-nine, she wrote to Helen Taft, the wife of then-President Howard Taft.

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Those first days when Helen Keller developed the ability to talk were wonderful.

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She taught Helen how to read, how to write and how to speak.

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In time,Helen did go to college and completed her studies with high honors.

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Miss Sullivan took Helen out into the woods to explore nature.

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But the doctor said he could do nothing to help Helen.

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In eighteen eighty-eight, Helen,her mother and Miss Sullivan went to Boston,Massachusetts.

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She wrote to friends in Boston about her experiences teaching Helen.

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Helen was able to learn many things, not just languages.

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But most important, she taught Helen how to think.

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Helen's parents took her on the train to Baltimore.

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