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**الزهرة السوداء** · 12-26-2007, 01:47 PM

Akita dog
When Keller visited Akita Prefecture in Japan in July 1937, she inquired about Hachikō, the famed Akita dog that had died in 1935. She told a Japanese person that she would like to have an Akita dog; one was given to her within a month, with the name of Kamikaze-go. When he died of canine distemper, his older brother, Kenzan-go, was presented to her as an official gift from the Japanese government in July 1939. Keller is credited with having introduced the Akita to the United States through these two dogs. By 1938 a breed standard had been established and dog shows had been held, but such activities stopped after World War II began. Keller wrote in the Akita Journal:

“ If ever there was an angel in fur, it was Kamikaze. I know I shall never feel quite the same tenderness for any other pet. The Akita dog has all the qualities that appeal to me — he is gentle, companionable and trusty. ”
Later life
Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home.

On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors. In 1965 she was elected to the Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair.

Keller devoted much of her later life to raise funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968, passing away 26 days before her 88th birthday, at her home in Arcan Ridge near Westport, Connecticut. A service was held in her honor at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC and her ashes were placed there next to her constant companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.

Posthumous honors

In 1999, Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

In 2003, Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter.

The Helen Keller Hospital is dedicated to her.

Portrayals of Helen Keller
Keller's life has been interpreted many times. She appeared in a silent film, Deliverance (1919), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style.

The Miracle Worker is a cycle of dramatic works ultimately derived from her autobiography, The Story of My Life. The various dramas each describe the relationship between Keller and Sullivan, depicting how the teacher led her from a state of almost feral wildness into education, activism, and intellectual celebrity. The common title of the cycle echoes Mark Twain's de************************************************ ion of Sullivan as a "miracle worker".

Its first realization was the play of that title, by William Gibson, originally produced as a television movie. It then moved to Broadway. The Miracle Worker was later adapted by Gibson into a feature film in 1962. Reprising their work from the Broadway production earned Academy Awards for Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, as Sullivan and Keller respectively, as well as several other nominations for the film. It was remade for television twice more, in 1979 and 2000.

She was also the subject of the ************************************************** **************aries Helen Keller in Her Story, narrated by Katharine Cornell, and The Story of Helen Keller, part of the Famous Americans series produced by Hearst Entertainment.

In 1984, Helen Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called The Miracle Continues. This semi-sequel to The Miracle Worker recounts her college years and her early adult life. None of the early movies hint at the social activism that would become the hallmark of Keller's later life, although The Walt Disney Company version produced in 2000 states in the credits that she became an activist for social equality.

The Hindi Bollywood movie Black(2005) was largely based on Keller's story, from her childhood to her graduation. A ************************************************** **************ary called Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy was produced by the Swedenborg Foundation in the same year. The film focuses on the role played by Emanuel Swedenborg's spiritual theology in her life and how it inspired Keller's triumph over her triple disabilities of blindness, deafness and a severe speech impediment.

Helen Keller is portrayed in Animated Hero Classics, an animated series on interactive DVD of 20 world and US heroes of history. The series is distributed by Nest Learning Helen Keller at the Internet Movie Database

In the animated series South Park, Season 4 has an episode entitled "Helen Keller! The Musical" where her life is meant to be chronicled through a musical.

Helen Keller at times has been the subject of frequent jokes normally considered to be tasteless that play on her handicaps. Such jokes are typically called "Helen Keller jokes".

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