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When she was one and a half years old, she suddenly had acute cerebral congestion, and her high fever for several days kept her in a coma. When she woke up, her eyes burned blind, her ears burned deaf, and her mouth could not speak.
Because of her deafness, she can't correct her pronunciation and speak vaguely. For a disabled person, the world is dark and silent. In this case, it is impossible to learn to read, write and speak without a strong memory. However, Helen Keller did not give in to fate. In order to pronounce clearly, she tied a small rope to a metal bar, holding the other end in her mouth, practicing her hands and mouth, writing a word and reading a word. In order to make the written words not crooked, she also made a wooden frame and assembled a pulley to practice writing.
In the process of learning and remembering, she has only one belief: she will be able to write down what she has learned and make herself a useful person. She insists on studying 10 hours every day. After a long period of hard study and indomitable confidence, she has mastered a lot of knowledge and can skillfully recite a lot of wonderful fragments of poems and famous works.
After studying, Helen broke through the barriers of literacy, language and writing, learned English, French, German, Latin and Greek, and published 14 book, which was praised and praised by all walks of life.
2. Zhang Haidi (a famous disabled writer in China, Master of Philosophy, Honorary Doctor of York University, UK); He is currently the chairman of China Disabled Persons' Federation. )
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Zhang Haidi was paraplegic due to spinal hemangioma when he was a child. Facing the cruel fate challenge, she didn't feel depressed or sink. She fought against the disease with tenacious perseverance, taught herself college English, Japanese and German, and studied college and postgraduate courses.
? From 65438 to 0983, Zhang Haidi began to engage in literary creation. She overcame her illness with indomitable perseverance, worked hard for creation, and made persistent efforts for literature. He translated hundreds of thousands of English novels, such as the seaside clinic, Rebecca in the new school, Little Miller's trip, modoc-the true story of an elephant, and published the novels Dream in a Wheelchair and Gyro. Prose collection "Flying Goose", "Windows Open to the Sky" and "Questioning of Life".
? 199 1 Zhang Haidi continued to fight her fate with indomitable spirit after undergoing cancer surgery. She began to study for postgraduate courses in philosophy, and after unremitting efforts, she wrote a paper "Disabled People in the Perspective of Cultural Philosophy". 1993 passed the postgraduate course examination of philosophy department of Jilin University and passed the thesis defense, and was awarded the master's degree. Zhang Haidi proved the power of life with her own courage, just as she herself said, "Like all determined people, I regard trying to explore myself as real happiness." With the spirit of overcoming her own obstacles, she opened a road for the disabled to enter the sea of knowledge.
3. stephen william hawking (a famous physicist at Cambridge University, England, known as one of the most outstanding theoretical physicists after Einstein; The most important contemporary general relativity and cosmologist; He is considered as one of the greatest scientists alive, and also known as the "king of the universe". )
Example: At the age of 265,438+0, he unfortunately suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), which led to muscle atrophy, so he was confined to a wheelchair with only three fingers moving. Illness has severely deformed his body. His head can only be tilted to the right, his shoulders are low on the left and high on the right, his hands are tightly combined inside, his hands are holding a mimeograph keyboard the size of a palm, his feet are twisted inward, and his mouth is almost S-shaped, as long as it is slightly one. This has become his iconic image. During the period of 1985, he completely lost his speech ability because of pneumonia, and his speech and question-and-answer could only be completed by a speech synthesizer. At that time, the doctor predicted that he would live for two years at most, but he was still tenacious.
He suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and lived in a wheelchair for 50 years. However, he overcame his disability and became a supernova in the international physics field. He can't write or even read clearly, but he transcends relativity, quantum mechanics and the Big Bang theory and enters the "geometric dance" of creating the universe-borderless conditions. Although he was so helpless in a wheelchair, his thoughts made people travel through the vast space and time, and gradually solved the mystery of the universe. His research laid the foundation for us to understand black holes and the origin of the universe today.
4. Ludwig van Beethoven (German composer and musician, one of the representatives of Viennese classical music school; It is the epitome of classicism and the pioneer of romanticism. )
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1770 12 17 Beethoven was born in a poor family in Bonn, Germany. ?
My father is a tenor in the local mediocre court choir, and my mother is the daughter of a court chef tortured by life. Under the strict training of his father, Beethoven showed his musical talent, but Beethoven was often scolded by his father. Beethoven played the harpsichord when he was 4 years old, and gained the reputation of a musical prodigy. Suffering from otitis media at the age of 5; At the age of 8, he began to perform on stage; /kloc-at the age of 0/0, he studied under Nie Fei, the most famous music educator in Prussia. Beethoven 1 1 year-old published his first work Variations on the Piano; /kloc-at the age of 0/2, he was recommended by Nie Fei to be an assistant organist in the court band of Count Walterstein, which was the beginning of Beethoven's career as a "music servant". Beethoven, 13 years old, joined the court band as an organist and an ancient pianist.
He began to compose his first symphony when he was ten years old. Since 1796, his hearing is getting weaker and weaker. His love for life and persistent pursuit of art overcame his personal pain and despair. Suffering became the source of his creativity, and he seized the fate by the throat. He still stubbornly wrote "Hero Symphony" in pain; The Heroic Symphony marks the turning point of Beethoven's mental state and the beginning of his heroic era.
In his later years, his life was still full of misfortune, illness and economic difficulties, but he still wrote masterpieces such as Solemn Mass and Ninth Symphony.
Beethoven is a master who spans two centuries and connects the classical music school and the romantic music school, and has become the source of the romantic music school.
5. Taiwan (Tai) Li Hua (CCTV moved China's person of the year in 2005; The image ambassador of 600 million disabled people around the world; UNESCO artist for peace. )
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Tai Lihua was born in an ordinary employee family. At the age of two, a high fever plunged her into a silent world. Tai Lihua realized the difference between himself and his peers long ago, and the seedlings of self-improvement and hard work sprouted in his heart. In the school for the deaf, Tai Lihua is excellent in character and study. The school is in Wuhan, which is far from home, so that she has developed a strong self-care ability since childhood. People only saw her leave home quietly and come back quietly, and only she knew how difficult it was. Later, Tai Lihua became a graduate of the Decoration and Design Department of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts through her own efforts.
With the help of the Disabled Persons' Federation, she received formal dance training. Tai Lihua 15 years old had nearly 10 years of amateur dance experience.
Since May 2002, China Disabled Art Troupe has entered the cultural market, exploring the road of combining Shang Yan with charity performances. As an actor captain, Tai Lihua standardizes the management of actors, guides the rehearsal of actors, improves the team style, and innovates and improves the art. In the past two and a half years, she has visited 16 countries, toured 22 provinces of the motherland and performed 275 performances.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Paralympic Games were all performed by Tai Lihua and others. She said: "Our biggest dream is to help more disabled people."
At the closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympic Games, Tai Lihua led the dance team of the China Disabled People's Art Troupe to perform "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands", which shocked the world, showed the splendid Chinese culture and special artistic and humanistic beauty to the whole world, and won glory for the Chinese nation. At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, the world's only professional disabled art troupe will once again show their amazing artistic performances in front of the whole world. As an ordinary dancer, Tai Lihua perfectly interprets the compassion and kindness of Guanyin with a thousand hands, and people almost think that only she can complete this role. Tai Lihua became the head of China Disabled Art Troupe. Under her careful selection and cultivation, more young Guanyin with different faces appeared.