Anne Sullivan developed a bacterial eye infection when she was five and lose her eyesight. Eventually, she attended the Perkins School for the Blind. After graduation, she was hired to teach Helen Keller, a blind and deaf girl in Alabama.<\/p>\n
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After seeing that Helen did not learn effectively with traditional methods, Anne focused her lessons on things that interested her. Within half a year, Anne had learned hundreds of words, Braille, and some math skills.<\/p>\n
Eleanor Roosevelt<\/strong><\/p>\n Eleanor Roosevelt didn’t have the best of childhoods. Her mother and brother died of diphtheria when she was eight and her father, an alcoholic, died two years later. She and her other brother were taken in by their grandmother.<\/p>\n At 20, she married her father’s fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, even though his mother was against the relationship. It’s her marriage that further cemented her role as a caregiver. He became paralyzed and she cared for him and made many of his public appearances on his behalf. She also started a yearly picnic for troubled youths and founded a business to provide work opportunities for farmers and their families.<\/p>\n