ACTIVITY 3.

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1. Ludwig van Beethoven
( Famous Musicians)
Beethoven is the greatest German composer and musician who was deaf at the later part of his
life. In his early life he was famous as a pianist. He got the primary knowledge of music from his
father, who was a musician. He has some mysterious power which led him to create famous
compositions one after another. He went to Vienna and learned from some of prominent
musicians. After the age of 28, he started becoming deaf and his personal life was not so
peaceful. He composed many piano sonatas such as Waldstein, Appassionata, etc
2. John Milton
Milton was completely blind by the year 1652. However, the precise cause of his blindness is
unknown. We can only speculate. However, an alternative to how how Milton lost his sight is
that he worked tirelessly for the Puritan and Oliver Cromwell cause he wrote himself blind. He
was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of
England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of
religious and political instability, and also best known for his epic poem the Paradise Lost. And it
is widely considered to be one of the greatest , works of England literature.
3.Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is the 16th President who suffered from severe, incapacitating, and
occasional suicidal depression; also thought to have Marfan Syndrome. He is famous for the
Gettysburg Address, abolishing slavery and being one of the four presidents who have been
assassinated. Her father remarried and as the frontier expanded and became more populated, so
the quality of life increased. Abraham also established the Fepartment of Agriculture. He was
known as a gifted storyteller and liked to tell jokes.

4. Burton Leon Reynolds ( Burt Reynolds)

Burt Reynolds was an American actor, director , and producer of film and television,
condidered a sex symbol and icon of American popular culture. His journey becoming
Hollywood’s leading manactually began on the college football field. The film star had
high hopes of becoming an all- American football player, but he suffered an injury thet
ruled that career path out. But Burt’s recent mobility challenges, he had back surgery in
the May 2009 and a quintuple heart by pass in February 2010. He reportedly struggled
with an addiction to painkillers for several years some time back, and the addiction
apparently came after he broke his jaw and lost a stunning amount of weight.
5. Helen Adams Keller
Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.
She was born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she loast her sight and hearing after about of illness
at the age of nineteen months. Because there wasn’t any cure in those days in time but despite
this she became a famous for a multitude of accomplishments as a deaf and blind person. She
was known to be a wild and unruly child and a strong humanitarian, activist, and writer.

Activity 3.2
 I experienced levels of self-talk where there was a bigger influence on the way I see
myself and the things around me, than I realized. It’s not uncommon for me to keep a
running dialogue inside my head. This dialogue range from giving myself instructions
while I carry out a task, random observations about a situation. There’s also a times
where there is a situation like I got a lower scored than I expected in a long test. So I feel
like I’m dumb like that and failure. But now instead of thinking negative thoughts I make
a plan where I start making a list of things I like to do and I spend time with the people
who make me happy and I don’t waste my time on people who don’t treat me well.
Sometimes even though its tough, I focus on positive things.