College Admissions Essay: Learning from Helen Keller :: College Admissions Essays

Learning from Helen Keller   heart is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller   Helen Keller was one of the to the highest degree successful people in the world. She helped in so many ways to change many peoples lives. She was a very humble person notwithstanding her successes. I want to tell you ab prohibited a story I read which touched me and shows what a special person Helen Keller was.   In the pass of 1950, a woman in Italy was asked by a neighbor to ointment up two women at a nearby hotel. The reason why her friend, Margot Besozzi, couldnt pick them up is because her jeep was getting repaired and that was the only political machine they could germinate to get up the very steep hill to her house. The women of course express that she would be delighted to pick them up. She asked Margot, whom should I ask for at the hotel? and Margot replied, young woman Helen Keller.   She could not believe that she was going to pick up Helen Keller at the hotel. She was so excited that she started to dream about when she was a little girl and her yield had given her the story of Helen Keller written by Annie Sullivan. When she arrived at the hotel, she got out of her car to greet Helen Keller and Polly Thomson. She took Helens hand and placed her in the car with Mrs. Thomson. Then it came to her judging that they were going to be winning a very dangerous beat back when they were to go up to the house. There were no sides to the car, so when she took very frosty turns, she was afraid that Helen might fall out of the car. So she warned them about the nappy and steep turns. When they got to this part of the journey, Helen started to sing, This is fun and then she cried out, Lovely When they reached the house, she helped the two women out of the car to greet Margot. She was invited to have lunch with Margot, Mrs. Thomson and Helen. They drove to the restaurant and went to get down at their table. When Helen sat down, she felt aro und her area so she knew where her fork, spoon, knife, and plate were, and sat patiently.   After they finished lunch, they were sitting around taking about Italy, and Helen was talking about where she wanted to visit.