![]() ![]() ![]() Keller was also a prominent activist for African American civil rights, supporting the NAACP and joining the American Civil Liberties Union. ![]() In addition, she joined the Industrial Workers of the World in 1915. She joined the Socialist Party of America in 1909 and spent the next twelve years speaking and writing on topics such as women’s suffrage, pacifism, and workers’ rights. A year later, Keller became the first deafblind person to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1903, she published her autobiography, The Story of My Life, with the help of Sullivan and her husband John. Between 18, Keller attended specialist schools for the deaf and blind before being admitted to Radcliffe College, then Harvard University’s school for women. With Sullivan’s help, she learned to read and write, as well as to speak using the Tadoma method. He referred them to the Perkins Institute for the Blind, which paired Keller with Anne Sullivan, a visually impaired instructor who would remain by Helen’s side for the next half century as her governess and companion. Her parents brought her to Baltimore to consult with Alexander Graham Bell, then a teacher for deaf children. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Keller suffered a sudden illness at nineteen months old that left her both deaf and blind. Helen Keller (1880-1968) was an American author, activist, and lecturer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pei Di is also famous for his collaboration with Wang Wei: this series of poems (the Wangchuan ji) has been translated into English as "The Wang River Collection", or similarly. One of Pei Di's poems, translated by Witter Bynner as "A Farewell to Cui", a farewell poem dedicated to a friend named Cui, was included in the important collection Three Hundred Tang Poems, as exemplary of the five-character (line length) version of the quatrain style known as juéjù, or "cut verse". Other than through Pei Di's few surviving poems, and the poems addressed to him by Wang Wei and Du Fu, "pitifully little" is known about Pei Di, other than that he had a reasonably successful government career. Pei also had a poetic relationship with Du Fu. This letter has been translated by Arthur Waley. The close personal friendship between Wang Wei and Pei Di is preserved in a letter by Wang Wei inviting Pei for a Springtime visit together at Wang's country estate. The poet's name is also rendered into English as "P'ei Ti" or "Pei Shidi" ( shi = 十). Pei Di has twenty preserved poems in the Wangchuan ji poetry collection, which collects twenty matching poems by Wang Wei and Pei Di. Pei Di was a contemporary of Wang Wei, although younger by fifteen years. Pei Di ( Chinese: 裴迪 pinyin: Péi Dí Wade–Giles: P'ei Ti) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, approximate year of birth 714, with one work included in the popular Three Hundred Tang Poems. ![]() "A Farewell to Cui", The Wang River Collection ![]() ![]() Other discrepancies emerged, causing an uproar in Ukraine, Russia and beyond. Chernikov wrote in a Facebook post that quickly went viral. “The difference between Ukrainian and Russian languages texts powerfully exposes the stated issues,” Mr. Instead of events in Crimea, it began with an analysis of President Trump’s statements to illustrate the proliferation of fake news in the modern world. 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