Reading all the stories I noticed that most of them took place In a school. Most people stories I read the person was trying to be cool other just letting every one think they are cool.  Most of them were disrespectful to there peers, or did less then what they were able to do just to show they can be cool or just get be to far them. It was funny to see that many people had the same meaning of cool. It was cool to see that  some people  picked a different for their story, I think they were trying to be cool .

All the stories I read the  main character was a males. I still wonder what makes  people think that males are cooler then females?  Even in my  story the main character  was  a male. Most  stories makes their character a  male  who is a disrespectful  bad ass. I  guessing  when when  when people  think of cool they think of bad ass or disrespectful and  when you think of  that  they  think male, because  a  stereotype  of female is  respectful at all times . 

evens

I thought your story was cool because the kid in your story wanted to be cool he was really smart but he felt that if he showed how smart he really he wouldn't be able to be cool., great story

esther short story

I really enjoyed reading your story , I liked the part were his mother was trying to wake him up so she lied about the time just to get him out of bed. Then i also like when the first thing he did when he got out of bad was log on to face insted of trying to get dressed fast so he wont be late for school

omar short story

I like that in your story you had a lot of talking between the charactes.You wasn't just telling the story. I think you did a great with show not telling.I think the sitting you picked was good becuase most peopel did a school sitting, so you made it better to read because it wasn't like the same story over and over.

the comment i left on brianna short story

Your story was good. I got the feeling from reading your story that the boy was trying to be some thing that he is not. Like he was trying to act hard so people won't think he's soft and try to be mean to him. The part was funny when you showed how the guy disrespecting the girl, because some guy are just like that dat . The only thing is that they just aren't as out there out there as you mad the guy in your story, thats why it was so funny. over all your short story was really cool

Short story

Getting out my moms car in Brooklyn for the first day of school, my head is full of bullshit. "I'm not going to fit in around here, They going to be able to tell i'm from uptown, because my swagg is different. It's whatever i'm coming here to play ball, and my game need to be on point, because they letting me in this school for free I have to show them that they not wasting there money". My mom leand over and gave me a kiss of ma head "enjoy your day " you to i said i got out the car and she pulled off.

As i walked into the class room i saw everyone head turn and look at me. You must be the new student the teacher says as she walks over to me. "Yea, i'm Dayshawn" I say, Well Dayshawn you can sit right here in front. "Iight" i say as i make my way to the front of the room. I hate sitting in the front but dame i dont mind because, this has to be the best looking teacher i have every seen. Big pretty brown eyes, hiar to the middle of her back, lips just the right size, cute little noise, and hips just the right size, i would love to see her bend over right in front of me.

It seem like class want to fast. Before I konw it class was over and I was heading to my locker , as i opened my locker to change the books i need for my two classes. As I closed my locker two girls walked up, they were really cute they was wearing skinny jeans and fited T-shirts with some thing on it. With some cute shoes, I love when girls wear shoes i thought to myslef. "I like your shirt" the first girls said "thank you" I replyed. "You the new boy right" the other one said. " yea", "you cute and you play ball right". I say yea but i was wondering how they know this. "thats cool well my name is Keyisha and this is my home girl Toney and if you want yu can eat luch with use". I'm Dayshawn and eatting lunch with yall sounds cool. "iight so come on".

Sitting with keyisha and Toney was cool they had a lot of friends mostly girls coming over and asking me if i was the new boy and telling me i was cute, they also told me that they were goin to enjoy me sitting with them for as long has i can because they know when i meet the team they know i'm not goin to sit with them any more . I told them the never no because i might enjoy sitting with a tald full of ladys over then sitting with an table full of guys. As lunch ended Keyisah and Toney walked me back to class and told me that they thought i was really cool because i was cute but i didn't act stuck up like i know i was cute. they said i was down to earth and layed back we exchanged numbers and agreed that we were friend and we can all chill some times.

cool

One  of the biggest questions I have about cool  is if  cool  and being know  the same thing? Being  know  mean when you  walk  down  the  hallways of your school or the  block you live and everybody  know who your are. Being cool  is  when  everybody  know who  you are and  they  want  yo be friends with  you as well. 

I don't really  know  what  it means  to  be  cool or uncool, because I think  people  see cool  different ways. What  maybe  cool  to me may not  be  cool  to  the  next person,  i can  start to  get to know some  one  and  think  they  are  the  coolest  person  i  know  but  when  another  friend of mines start to get  to know  them  they  will think  the  are lame  and  uncool. 

I have a really connection to  this happening  to me  in  the  past.  When  i  was was a freshmen i  thought this  boy that  was in  the  11th grad was the  coolest person i  have ever know, i had the  biggest crush on him. All  of my  friends  thought he was  lame  and  didn't understand  why  i liked  him so much . I got to know him  and  he  was kind of cool  but  he wasn't what  i  have  made  him out to be. He was a  cool person to hang out with  some  time  but  not all the time. This just  goes  to show  that  people  have  different ideas of what's cool  and  what isn't. It also shows that  peoples of ideas  of cool can  change over time or  once they  get to know a person.

some insights that have flashed into my mind about cool is, what makes a person think something is cool and  if there is a real way  to  say something is  cool  or not. To me  some one  is  cool when they  are being themselves.  when they dear to be different to stand out  and  do  what makes them happy. when they  live for themselves in stead of of the  be around them, because  today a lot  of  people don't  do so  the do thing  that everyone else is  doing .

I think a person  is  cool  when they  don't try to be  cool, people have so many different ideas of cool. 

art project

Always there, never leaving me alone,
In the house or in the street,
The closes friend to me.

There when nothing else is,
Sing the sweet sound of blazing Hip hop and R&B through littel headphones, so when i'm on the train I won't feel alone.

Helping me with my home work,
five page paper and the red line appears under a word i spelled wrong
"shit " i spelled that wrong ,
It tells me
" Have no fare spell check is here",
so I
1) High light the word
2) Click at the top of the computer screen were i find the word spelling
3) There is the word I was looking for

Always there for me, never leaving me alone,
In the house or in the streets.

42nd street, the big lights and T.V screens that have ever one looking up because they are visiting form a city that has nothing like this .

Always there for me, never leaving me alone,
In the house or in the streets .

My ipod
My computer
the big lights and T.V screens
thats cool with me

Because there always there for me never leaving me alone
in the house or in the street their the closes friend to me.

Nov-07-2009
Digitalization
Living in a world taking over by digitalization has many different meaning. It can mean that everything comes so easy; you’re just a click away from goggle. It can also mean that you are clueless of what’s going on in the really world because you live life behind a computer screen. Many people would agree and say that digitalization is bad but they wouldn’t have a reason for why they think so. Many people would also say that digitalization have a negative effect on teenagers , they would point out the fact that many teenagers spend a lot of free time on social networks such as MySpace, facebook or even twitter , staying connected to their friends other then getting out and interacting with them. People also say digitalization is bad because children and teenagers would often choose it over reading a book or writing a story. When student were asked what they would rather do read books, do home work or play videogames and spend time on the computer. More the half of them said they would rather spend time playing videogames and on the computer, because they spend so much time in school do work on the weekends and after school they just want to “chill” and get away from school. One student said “when I get home the first thing I do is turn on the computer, more so now than ever because most of our home work have to be done over internet, but I’m not going to front the first thing I do isn’t home work I go on Facebook or twitter or whatever and just do my home work when it start to get late or it get really bored”. This quote was said by one student but I know she isn’t the only person that feel s this why. When you ask the question what people think about digitalization you get the same two answers “it’s bad because people use it to much” or “it’s good because it make thing easier “. When you ask that question people never take the time to really think before they answer it , they don’t take a minute to think how digitalization affect them , or to think how can it help them or not or take the time to ask themselves how much time they spend using it and if they think they should cut down . Digitalization plays a major role in our society today, and affects many people. The addiction, staying connected as well as social networking are the reason digitalization is such a major part of our lives.
People spending so many hours a day watching T.V and web surfing, the part that seem interesting to me is that people can just sit for hours and look at one show or be log into one social network. The question I would like answered is what keeps a person interested and coming back for more? The answer is addiction. People can sit on MySpace or Facebook for hours, sometime they would not eat or go use the bathroom because they do want to get off the computer, People go out for the day but before they go they must get on MySpace or Facebook and when they come back no matter how late it is they would not be able to sleep without going on again, they are addicted and most of the time they don’t know they are or even why. Networks aren’t the only thing about digitalization that makes people addicted, also thing like on line shopping. Why go to the stores were you would have to look through the everything to find something you want with the chance you might not find anything at all, when you can just sit at our desktop or laptop and just press next till you find the things you want . If you don’t find anything on one sight all you have to do is go to the next one, It just so much easier. Some people aren’t even addicted to the computer, the internet is their adduction. “Creating a single definition for computer addiction is difficult because the term actually covers a wide spectrum of addictions. Few people are literally addicted to a computer as a physical object. They become addicted to activities performed on a computer, like instant messaging, viewing Internet pornography, playing video games, checking e-mail and reading news articles because all your need are fulfill and one place and they are easier to get your hands on ”, (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-addiction.htm). I believe people get very addicted to digitalization because to makes everything easier, people think why they should take the hard way out when everything you need is just a mouse click away.
Digitalization is great when it comes to keeping people connected, today there are so many way to get in contact with other people. Cell phones, instant messaging, text messaging and the list can go on. Staying connected is one of the biggest reasons that most people are addicted to internet . Internet chatting make it so that you can talk to more than person at a time , and you can also be doing other things on the computer. People often like staying connected over instant or text messaging because it less personal , people find it easier to express their feeling in a texts message or over aim rather then talking in person or over the phone. “Kids are not learning to converse with people directly. Texting enables people to avoid face-to-face confrontation. The worst stories I have heard is someone being fired and dumped over a text message. One girl got fired over a text message, and since she didn’t have text messaging, she paid 40 cents to get fired. Please, find the appropriate time to communicate via text message”, (http://blog.hireahelper.com/2009/06/11/new-generation-of-communication-texting-versus-talking). People like to often say things over text messaging so it won’t become awkord between them and the person their talking to. Using Digitalization to stay connected also has its down falls. People spend less time going out or spend time with their friends and family, because they are giving other ways to be able to check on the m. Another reason why staying connect over digitalization isn’t always great because message can get crossed, meaning you can say something meaning it one way but since the other person can here the way you said they can take differently . That can start big problems and turn into a big miss understanding.
Why do people use social networks? Can’t they just go hang out with their friends or call them on the phone or even text them ? But why limited yourself to talking to one or two people at a time when you can go on Facebook or Twitter and talk to as many people as you want to ? That is the outlook that a lot of people today have on social networking . older people would blame it on teenagers for spending so much time on the networks , but most peoples parents and grandparents are sign up to the networks as well. People sign up to these network to keep others posted on what’s going on in their life’s by putting up pictures of what they did that weekend and so on or to make them self feel important when they see that they have over 5000 followers on twitter . Social networks start out as just good fun for most people but once they start spending time on the network and seeing what it can do, it starts to become more of a life style for many people. People put up a lot of information about them self on social networks, such as their full names, date of birth , were they live as well as attend school and things they enjoy doing. Most people will agree and say that’s not the safest thing to do because just how you are already friends or at least know the people you are friends with on their social networks there are also the people that you don’t know that you are also friends with. By you telling on your information you are making it easy for them to find you. “ The Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported more than 2,600 incidents last year of adults using the Internet to entice children. With numbers like that, you'd think all parents would be hovering over their kids, wanting to know what they're doing online. But authorities say many parents are clueless about their kids' MySpace profiles”, (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/06/eveningnews/main1286130.shtml). This quote proves that just how great social networking can be for keeping you connected to your friends and family . It can be just as dangerous , and that’s we many adults don’t want their kids to have MySpace or facebook pages . Most children go behind their parents back and sign up for MySpace or facebook , because all they are thinking about is how their friends have one and they don’t want to feel left out. They don’t think about the danger they may be putting their self in. Social networking isn’t all bad but it isn’t all good as long as you are aware of what’s going on.
This paper is important because it is warring people of the ups and downs of digitalization. This paper is trying to make them think deeper about digitalization and the affect it has on our society so that when their asked about digitalization their answers aren’t limited to it good or bad they will be able to think and say why they think is good or bad they will also be able to list the pros and cons about it. Although this paper is mostly talking about computers and internet use, digitalization is so much more than that and we are surround it by it every day. Most people have cell phones, T.V, computers, rodeos and so much more. Even living in the city, when you go out to 42nd all the lights and images showing on the big bright screens are digitalization.We are living in a society where we cannot escape digitalization, so we just have to learn how to live with it. We can control how much we use it and how much time we put into do other things.
The connection I would like to make to this paper is a self to text connection, before taking this class and writing this paper my thought about digitalization were very limited. I was always on the internet and didn’t find it to be a big deal. If somebody was to ask me at the beginning how I felt about digitalization I would have be like it’s a great thing when I need something to do and when I need to find out information its always here for me , but I wouldn’t be able to answer with a very deep answer. Before I never took the time to think about how much time I spent using it or if I would be able to live without it or not. I’m not going to front like since I started learning about digitalization, I stop using it or I even cute down the time I spent using it because I have not . The only difference is that know when I use the internet I think about it more. The question we ask each other in class come to my mind, why I’m I so addicted ? why do I care what people posted on my wall or said about my picture ? I feel like I care so much because it keeps me in the circle of knowing what is going on with my friends when we aren’t together. I learned so much through this unite and even though I didn’t stop or cut down on ma internet use is mad me very aware.
Digitalization plays such a major role in our society today that there is no way of getting around it. The tree points I bought up as augments were points that was important or interesting to as we deeper learned about digitalization. The topic of digital is so lager that I couldn’t cover everything but I talked about the parts that that I though affected me the most . The addiction because I can say I was really addicted to internet use , staying connected and social networking use because they have their pros and cons and I just wanted to aware people . we live in a world so big I think it’s room for us as well as digitalization.

The addaction of digitalization affect people in society a maijor way.

intro
talking about digitalization and streo types people have about it.

Body# 1
The addaction
what makes people so addicted ? and why ? what good and whats bad about it ? Is there even a good or a bad?

Body #2
Staying connected
digital things are used to help people stay connected. with out being together and why it that ?

Body#3 

social networking

why does every one  use them and why do they spend so much time on them?

Rap it up, talk about each subject i already talked bout .