She was a lost cause. No one could help her because she was unable to
             communicate. Why did Anne Sullivan believe she could help her? Sullivan undertook a
             task that many thought to be impossible: to establish some means of communication with
             Helen Keller and to bring this blind, deaf, and mute girl into a world that she could never
             before have imagined. Of all the influential people throughout time, Anne Sullivan is
             one I admire. Because of her determination, her ability to connect with a deeply
             troubled child, and her defiance of the odds against her, she set an important example for
             Physically, Anne Sullivan was much like the other women of the nineteenth
             century. She was an everyday person on the outside; however, her character reveals that
             her ordinary appearance was misleading. Her greatest qualities lie within. Anne was an
             intelligent woman who could deal with all that life threw her way. In 1887, life gave her
             the opportunity to meet her greatest challenge, Helen Keller. To be able to cope with all
             that came with this job, she relied on her patient temperament as well as her loving and
             optimistic nature. Regardless of how grim the situation appeared to others, Anne saw the
             tiny increments of progress in Helen, and no matter how long it took, she refused to give
             up her hope that some day Helen would be able to function like other children.
             To truly touch and brighten the life of a child is one of the most incredible
             achievements that one could ever hope to reach. I personally hold a great admiration for
             Anne Sullivan because she connected with a child, and made her life better. Helen Keller
             had lived a life of complete frustration, absolutely cut off from the world around her.
             Anne Sullivan changed that. She taught a girl who knew nothing of relationships and love
             to communicate with a world she could neither see,
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