This provided funding to education on all levels. These students were known as the Little Rock 9.ġ958 – National Defense Education Act. This was also famous for setting the record for the longest one-man filibuster in the history of the senate.ġ957 – The Soviet Union launches “Sputnik”, the infamous space race begins.ġ957 – First nuclear power plant goes into service.ġ957 – Little Rock Central High School, in Arkansas, is desegregated. This bill was to primarily ensure that all African-Americans could vote, even though they’d been allowed to vote for a while. Under this, a country could ask for help from America (economic or military) if they felt threatened by another country.ġ957 – Civil Rights Act of 1957. But for now, we’ll focus on that first draft onward, what lead up to his finalization of the play.ġ957 – The Eisenhower Doctrine. This play is a little interesting, since he wrote the first draft of it, the teleplay, in 1957, four years before the first theatre draft. There may be meanings written into the play that you may not have previously thought of.
One of the important things to think of when reading a play is the time it was written compared to the time that the play takes place. What was difficult for you? What did you notice that you usually don’t? For this exercise, spend at least an hour either blindfolded or mute, and then write about your experience in the comment section. Later on in Helen’s life, she starts to keep a journal as well. In this play, Anne writes in a journal a lot. Anne’s was fixed, although she often wore her smoked glasses because her eyes were still sensitive to light.įun Fact: There are no photographs showing Anne Sullivan wearing her smoked glasses, despite how often she refers to them.
It is caused by some type of contact with another individual with trachoma. Anne had granular trachoma on her eyes, which is a pretty serious condition if not treated properly.
The doctors always called it an acute congestion of the stomach and brain, although medicine was so primitive in those days that an “acute congestion” could have meant anything. Helen remains blind due to the sickness that she was struck with at nineteen months, although the doctors never gave her an exact diagnosis. She and Anne also share a common ground in blindness.