What makes a person influential? Influential people make positive changes for others, are leaders and set good examples to follow. Helen Keller is considered one of the most influential people because, even though she had a disability and had to learn to overcome it, she later became determined to learn about the world and wanted to help improve the lives of others. . Helen Keller once said, “I am only one, but I am one nonetheless. I can't do everything, but I can still do something; and since I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do” (Keller). For example, she decided to teach the blind to be courageous and to make their lives successful, diligent and meaningful for others and themselves.‎ Helen Keller had an influence on society by becoming a role model for the deaf and impaired hearing.‎ blind. When he was 19 months old he fell ill with a disease called “scarlet fever”. As a result of the disease, Helen Keller became blind and deaf, leaving her unable to see or hear. Many people didn't believe that Helen Keller was capable of learning, but she ended up proving everyone wrong. Later in her life, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write and speak. Helen Keller once said, “While they said it couldn't be done, it was done” (Keller). Helen was born on June 27, 1880 to a Southern landowning family with two older sisters in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Kate and Arthur Keller find a young woman at the Perkins Institution to teach Helen how to communicate. A month after Anne Sullivan's arrival, she had already taught Helen, at the age of six, the word water and that words have meaning. Once Helen learned to communicate with others using… half of the paper… Keller had a disability, she was still determined to work hard and prove to people that she could learn. Helen Keller was someone who never gave up or let herself get down in difficult times, and strived to make a change for others. Works Cited Gibson, Althea and Martina Navratilova. American heroes. 2. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, ‎Inc., ‎‎2009. Print.‎Raven, Susan and Alison Weir.‎ Successful women Thirty-five centuries of history. New ‎York:‎‎ Harmony Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc, 1981. 76-77. Print.‎Hi, Paula K and Suzanne M Bourgion. ECYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD BIOGRAPHY SECOND EDITION. 2nd. ‎‎8. ‎Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1998. 479. Print.‎‎“American History.” ABC-CLIO. SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA, March 4, 2014. Web March 4, 2014. ‎http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/247190?terms=HelenKeller.‎