Our Connection

The connection between Helen Keller and Melanie Benn is that they are both disabled. Helen Keller can't see or hear, and Melanie Benn has no legs or arms. And yet both of them live through it and overcome their weaknesses.

Melanie Ben

Who: Melanie Benn
What: Melanie Benn is a woman who got an illness when she was 18 that made her lose her arms and legs, and yet she overcame that and lives a normal life.
Where: She was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but has lived in San Diego since she was seven.
Why: She is resilient for having no arms or legs and yet she tries to do everything that normal people would do.

Helen Keller

My person was Helen Keller

She was born on June-27 1880. She died on June 1, 1968 sometime in February 1882 when she was 19 months old, she got what doctors called a brain fever that caused her to become blind and deaf. The actual name of what disease she had is unknown.
Helen Keller lived in many places. She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, a small town found in Northwest Alabama and she died in Arcan Ridge, Westport, Connecticut.
Helen Keller is resilient because she was able to over come the challenge of not being able to see or hear anything and she was still able to go to collage and travel the world and give lectures and raise money for American Foundation for the Blind