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5 Extraordinary People The "Extraordinary"

1. Helen Keller 
Disadvantages: Blind and Deaf 
Adamns Helen Keller is an author, political activist and teacher from America. He is a = also the first deaf blind person who successfully completed the college of art, thanks to his teacher, 
Annie Sullivan taught Helen how to successfully communicate without language. She taught Helen to communicate by spelling out the letters in his hand, starting from the letters for doll DOLL provided by Sullivan to Helen on his birthday. Helen also participated actively campaigned for the right of women to vote in elections, labor rights, and socialism. In 1920, he helped establish the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller has met all the American president since Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson. He is also a good friend of some famous figures including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, and Mark TWA 

2. Stephen Hawking 
Disadvantages: Motor Neuron Disease 
Stephen William Hawking is a renowned British physicist. The books and public appearances have made ​​it an academic celebrity. in 2009 he also received a presidential medal of freedom, the highest civilian award in the USA. While still studying in Cambridge, Stephen Hawking had fallen from a ladder that would make it suffer from motor neurone disease that left him paralyzed. He is more afraid of losing his genius, so he checked his intellectual advance through Mensa test. The diagnosis of nervous disease known as age reaches 21 years, where he began to lose control over his hands and feet, until finally he was completely paralyzed in 2009. 

3. Jean-Dominique Bauby 
Disadvantages: Locked - In Syndrome 
Jean - Do is an editor, writer and journalist famous of French ELLE magazine. In 1995, he suffered a heart attack is very severe and result he fell into a coma for 20 days. After awakening from a coma, he finds himself suffering from an extremely rare neurological syndrome called Locked In Syndrome. This syndrome makes the patient is paralyzed from head to toe, but still have a conscious mind. In this case, Jean-Do can blink his eyes fixed 
Ignoring the circumstances, Jean-Do still able to write a bukua titled Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking his eyes when the writer who helped appoint the correct letters. Jean-Do had to edit and write the book they will be entirely in his head, letter by letter. Jean-Do died 2 days later after the book they will be in the release. 

4. John Nash 
Disadvantages: Schizophrenia (a chronic brain disorder, severe and make it not work)

John Forbes Nash was an American mathematical scientist. In his childhood, he was very interested in science, so try a variety of small experiments in his bedroom. He then studied chemistry and mathematics Indusri at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1959, he began to show strange behavior resembling paranoia. He believed that there are organizations that are after him. Then he was put into a mental home where she was diagnosed suffering from schizophrenia. The works and contributions received many awards, including several elite awards in the form of John von Neumann Theory Prize in the year 1978 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. An Academy Award film, entitled "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russell Crowe with a story based on the biography. 

5. Christy Brown 
Disadvantages = Cerebral Palsy 
Christy Brown was an author, painter, and poet from Ireland who suffer from Cerebral Palsy, which made ​​him unable to move and speak normally. The doctors also stated that he also has mental retardation. But his mother still tries to talk to him, taught him many things.One day he grabbed a piece of chalk from his sister's hand with his left foot and make a mark with chalk. 
Until the age of 5 years could only move his left leg corresponding keinginnannya. He uses these legs to communicate, which later he made ​​the title of his autobiography, "My Left Foot".


source : http://haxims.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-orang-luar-biasa-yang-luar-biasa.html

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