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 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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He suggested the Kellers get a teacher for the blind who could teach Helen to communicate.

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

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

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

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

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She tried to teach Helen to live like other people.

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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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The DA also won control of the Western Cape provincial assembly due largely to public satisfaction with the performance of its leader, Helen Zille, as mayor of Cape Town, the country's second largest city.

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