cool paper

When people think of coolness, they may ask themselves how do I appear as cool to others. How would the rest of the world react to me, will I even appear as cool? I think appearance is a very important factor when it comes to being cool . Although cool can have many different meaning to different groups and people , a person that want to be viewed as cool will try to appear as cool to everyone . So people will do things such as dress to part, act how they feel people think they should, get body pricings as well as tattoos, take drugs and drink alcoholic barrages and participate in dear devil activities to be able to prove their coolness. Your idea of cool isn’t something you are born with, over time you people make up their own mean of cool from the things they are surround by. Things such as your house hold, were you living and the group or groups of people you surround yourself with. People take cool as a way to feel in control because everything around them is controlled , cool gives you the chance to make your own identity .

People often dress in the way they will like to be indentify . when a person want to come off the are “gangster” and make people think they are not once to be messed with, they will wear their jeans off their butt so they can sag. When a person want to come off as a person that has respect and will like to be respected they will wear their pants up on their butt. For example I know guys that wear their pant off their butt when they are going to school or hang out with their friends at the movies or a party, but when they go into a job interviews or a place where they are wearing dress paints they will wear their paints up on their butt with a belt to make sure they won’t fall down. The only thing to be identified by cool isn’t the way a person dresses, now of day’s the coolest person will have a tattoo. Tattoos are something that everybody wants if they don’t already have. It’s a way to express who you are by picture or words on your body. Most of the people that are look up to now of days have tattoos, rock stars, rappers, r and b singer as well as athletic , what makes them cool is the fact that they are always in the media . Mostly everything in the media is looked at as cool. I’m even a victim of think that tattoos can make a person seem cooler, it seems like lately every boy that I’m interested in has tattoos. At first it wasn’t something I didn’t looked for it just so happened but know one of my first question when I meet a guy is “do you have a tattoo or tattoos?” and if they say yes it seems like the biggest turn on. John fanning say’s “I got my first tattoo not trying to be cool I got it to be a rebel” because he grown up in a place where everyone was the same having your own identity was the hardest part”. People get tattoos of important moments in their lives good or bad, of thing that changed their life or of moments they don’t want to forget but when they look at the tattoo they will always remember the story behind it. R and B singer Riana got a tattoo of a gun after being beat by ex boyfriend Chris Brown; it was a moment in her life she would never forget so she “tatted it”. John Fanning also said “when I was in a punk rock band tattoos seem to be a part of the live", people get tattoo's get because they feel that is what they have to do to fit in to their group. I have noticed that a lot of football and basketball player as will has punk, rap, and R and B stars have tattoos, mean while a lot of models or actors do not have them. This show how people choose to identify them self it also show s that groups of people have different views on cool .

Self identity also have to do with were a person comes from and what they are surrounded by . If a person is surrounded by a lot of negative influences in most cases they will come out very negative . On the other hand if a person is surrounded by positive influences in most cases they will turn out to be more positive. For example every one think making a lot of money is cool, but If a person comes from a place where people do not work and they like to make money the fast way (selling drugs) . They will view that as cool and something they will like to do because they weren’t taught any better. A person that was surround by that way of live , will find skipping school then soon dropping out of school and starting to sell drugs to make money as the cooler way to live. On the other hand a person that is surround by people who want to college and after college found great job as a cool thing and they will want to walk in those people footsteps , because they will view that as the right way to do thing then that will come off as cool because at the end of the day they are making money. In class Andy was making great point s even though at first I felt a little offended , he said “ Most black men do not graduate from high school, the often end up going to jail or turn to selling drugs”. At first I was trying to find any way to be able to disagree with him and have strong arguments to back up what I want to say, because I’m black and I felt every time he made a statement like that every on in the class will look over to me and the one other black female in the class. I could not find any way to disagree with Andy , because what he was saying was true. He didn’t say all black were people because he knows like I know there some black people that graduated from high school and became very successful in college as well as in there cares. People get their views of cool form the people and things they see everyday .

People often act as charters out of a movie, always playing the role they are giving throughout real life. People may view this as fake when they see the person go from playing one role to playing the next when they are surround by different people. I feel this is where “cool” comes in. In one group they may need to you step up and became the leader , and within that group your identity is the leader , but when you hang out with a different group they may need you to be more laid back and let someone else be the leader . It don’t make you fake your just playing the role you was giving . During A class talk Andy mad a very good point , if a person is in a group were everyone is playing the bad boy role the person will play the bad boy role, to be seen as cool . Your identify with the role you are giving you pick the one you feel is the most you and you with it . People are often afraid to step out of their boxes and try playing a new role because they are afraid they won’t fit in. For example I been hang out with the same group of friends since the six grade because I know that I’m accepted in that group and we are all black . I know there are a few white girls in my class that I could be best friends with but I don’t try because I don’t know how they well react or if they well accept me. So I stay in the group I feel I fit into.

The point of my paper was to show how important identity is when it comes cool. It can be using it to find out your true identity or using cool to give you identity . Being cool is important to everyone although many like myself may try not to show it . Every one want to be looked at as cool by some body.

Julie

I think you paper was very good, i feel that you stated facts and got a little personal as well. you had images to prove your points , do i wasn't like you mad a statement with out backing it up and i thought that was a very good idea. I think you should add some of the info from class. you don't have to add every thing that andy said but you should add some. i think a good place to add is where you talked about tattoos you should talk about what fanning said when he came in to talk to use. So you can have what you know that fact you got from other place then what some who has many tattoos had to say I think it would back up your point to the fullest but over all great paper and think think there are very little changes that need to be made.

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evan

I think your paper was off to a very good start. It helped me out a lot, with understanding what my paper should look like so thank you. The only thing i think you should do is make your paper a little more personal like Andy told use in class. you should had what cool ,means to you and how the topic of cool you talked about in your paper is important to you its a very small thing but i think it would make your paper more enjoyable to read because it would not be fact after fact. I'm not saying you have to get to personal but just enough to make your reader want to get through your whole paper but other then that i think your off to a great start.

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Brittani Carey
What it cool? Is cool the group of people we hang out with. Is it the way we dress and who name is on our shirts, is it the type of music we listen to and the videos we watch. What is cool? In class we spent talking about cool, what is cool? Where do the ideas come from? Why do people try to be cool? What makes a person cool? Most of the questions couldn’t be answered using facts but the unit did give me a better understanding of the word and what it means to different people. One big thing I learned throughout this unit the word cool have so many different meanings, I did interviews with family members, friends in and out of school as well as strangers about what cool means to them and each answer was different. I have learned that cool is a state of mind and can mean different things to different groups and people.
People often do thing so that they well come off as “cool” to others. They will act or talk in away to make people think they are cool. Another way people often come off as cool to others is by getting a tattoo , body art. Now of days tattoos are something that everybody wants if they don’t already have them. It’s a way to s express who you are by picture or words on your body. Most of the people look up to now of days have tattoos, rock stars, rappers, r and b singer as well as athletic and most thing that are in the media is looked at as cool. John fanning say’s “ I got my first tattoo not trying to be cool I got it to be a rebel” because he grown up in a place where everyone was the same and not in to tattoos and rock music. People get tattoos of important moments in their lives good or bad , of thing that changed their life or of moments they don’t want to forget but when they look at the tattoo they will always remember the story behind it. R and B singer Rihanna got a tattoo of a gun after being beat by ex boyfriend Chris Brown, it was a moment in her life she would never forget so she “tatted it”. John Fanning also said “when I was in a punk rock band tattoos seem to be a part of the live", people get tattoo's get because they feel that is what the have to do to fit in to their group . I have noticed that a lot of football and basketball player as will has punk, rap, and R and B stars have tattoos, mean while a lot of models or actors do not have them. This show’s that different groups of people have different ideas of cool .

Often times people put on a show for the people they are around. Although i dont think there is one way to inturputed the word cool people will make up there own meaning for the word and everyone in there group will live by that meaning. So they act the way they think they have to, to fit in. This does not make a person fake at all this just mean that they are playing the role that were giving . In some case this can limite the thing they can do in life giving the group they are hang out with and what their meaning of cool maybe, but if they dont get to rapped up in trying to be cool i belive that they can have great success because they know how to play their role.

In some case trying to be "cool " can hurt you. You may get rapped up in a group that isn't good for you. Many people think black people often get rapped up in the wrong groups because they are the once that sell durg, playing dice, skiping school or goin to school and not doing well. I feel white groups are so fast to look down on black groups. When they are the onebuying the duges that the black peopl are selling. As a black teenager that lived both in harlem and mid town i can say i have never know a person addicted to cocain that was 16 teen years of age or under intill i moved to midtown and started going to school at school of the future were most of the students are white. Yet black groups are looked down on.

I feel you make up your own meaning of cool basied on what you grown up around. Some may call this the path you follow. You see whats around you. Like whats goes on in your household, on the block you live on and what goes on in school. You see every thing thats in your path. You learn from it and you put different things together and you are able to make your own path. some times people follow the path that they are giving and often end up unhappy and in bad groups. I feel cool is what you make it.

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intro
1)background about what the paper is going to be about .
*what cool means to me
* what cool means to everyone else
* Is there even a such thin as cool ?

Body 1
-what does it mean to be cool?
*different groups
* people putting on a show for others

Body 2
- tattoos
*do people get them for themselves or to impress others?
* getting them to be labled as cool or to fit in
* art and stories about the tattoos (many different reasons people get them)

Body 3
- How different races see cool
* less black people get out of high skool and go to college
* skiping skool,use of durges, ect

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I feel people get tattoos for many different reasons. They use tattoo's to tell people who dont know them who they are, or they get tattoo so they can have a moment or a person with them for ever. That is just two of the many rasons people get tattoos. Now of days people get tatoos because that seems to be the cool thing to do. Rappers , R and B singers as well as rock stars make songs about there tatoos or even taking there shirts off in videos and on stages for all there fan to see and make them want to go out and get tattoos.

R and B singer Rihanna got a tatoo of a gun after being beat by exboyfriend Chris Brown. She also got a tatoo of her old time bestfriends date of birthday becaause she says thats some one she want in her life for the rest of her life. This reminds me of what Mr. Fanning said about his tatoos " my tatoos are of moments i dont want to forget ". He also say "when I was in a punk rock band tatoos seem to be apart of the live", people get tatoo's get because they feel thats what the have to do to fit in to there group . I have noticed that alot of football and basketball player as will has punk, rap, and R and B stars have tatoos, meanwhile a lot of models or actors do not have them.

I dont think tatoos can make a person cool or not. I feel tatoos are some thing people do for themselves , and other people are just atracted to them because they want to know the story behind them . People offten time put there tatoos place that are easy to cover because they know looking for a jod having a tatoos will be hard.

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talking to my mom I asked her , witch one she used. She told me that she didnt think she was missing any thing big , like a father or a mother because growing up she had both living with her and her brother. She said but she did feel that her emptiness came form trying to keep up with or be ahead of all her peers when she was a teen growing up in harlem in the 1980's. " when i was growing thats when the hip hop movement started , so you had to know the words tothis one song, you had to have this one name brand on your sweatsuit, or your hair done this one way. It was so many standers you had to meet living in harlem in the '80's ". she tells me she was happy that her family had the money to keep her up to all the standers but she felt that some times she wanted to be different from the rest , she wanted to listen to a song that every one didnt know , she wanted to wear a different brand of sweatsuit, she want to change the way she wore her hair, but she didnt because she thought that othere people wouldn't understand, she say " they wouldn't like change and i cared to much about what other people thought when i was a teen, and thats wear i think my emptiness came from". So she just covered up her emptiness by doing what every one was doing and being really good at it .