Author Archives: Candaice Weller

Sharing my story part 4: This was a pleasure putting together and I am happy to share My American Story with you all. Writing these blogs every week and sharing my thoughts and ideas with you all was amazing. Always remember, your current situation is not your final destination! Be Creative and always BE YOU!Continue reading “My Final Project”

I started my implementing phase of my final project and I actually completed a first draft. My digital toolkit is Animoto and I created a slideshow in a way where there are pictures and videos explaining my story. It did take a little while but, I wanted to finish a first draft to see howContinue reading “Sharing My Story Part 3”

I am not going to lie to you, I did feel a little bit nervous or anxious because I had no idea what I wanted to do for my final project. I wrote out an outline of how I can incorporate all of my blogs I wrote this whole semester and the stories we readContinue reading “Sharing My Story Part 2”

For my final presentation in my Ethnic American Class, I am choosing the option to share my own American story. When I first heard about this project in the beginning of the semester, I was kind of excited. When I was in high school, I was always embarrassed to tell my story to others andContinue reading “Sharing My Story”

Working on this presentation for my Ethnic American class made me learn so much about the author, Maxine Hong Kingston. She not only had an intense childhood, she was also very bright at a young age. She became an amazing writer and incorporated her mother’s stories she told her as a child and added inContinue reading “The No Name Woman Was Always A Warrior”

As I am researching the author, Maxine Hong Kingston, for my Ethnic American project, I am discovering that she is a women warrior herself and I can see how she will be an amazing person to connect to my project. One of the things that surprised me was that she started writing at a veryContinue reading “Being The Voice For Others”

For my amazing Ethnic American class, I had to choose someone who represents what an American really means for my presentation and I chose the author, Maxine Hong Kingston, using her novel, “The Woman Warrior.” I am focusing on her first chapter, “No Name Woman.” When I researched information about Maxine Hong Kingston and whyContinue reading ““No Name Woman””

Listening to the American life podcast, “Three Miles,” brought some similar feelings I had when I was in high school. For instance, the beginning of the podcast, which was conducted by Chana Joffe-Walt, studied a program that a public school, which was in a poor area of the Bronx with 97% black and Hispanic students,Continue reading “Your Current Situation Is Not Your Final Destination”

I read a short story by Toni Morrison called, “Sweetness” and then watched a video about eight black women who discuss the politics of skin tone and it was very powerful. It actually brought me back to moments in my childhood when my mother would tell me certain things or teach me something. For example,Continue reading “The Color Spectrum”

I recently watched a documentary film called, “The Cats of Mirikitani.” It was very heart breaking and inspiring all at the same time. I was actually not aware of what Japanese internment meant until I was in class and it really opened up my eyes to how cruel this world can be; but, it alsoContinue reading “The Power Of Art”