hw#28 informal research

1)In the television show Jersey Shore from what i've seen, they show being cool, as someone who parties nearly every night, is good at conversing with people, as shown when they started to work at the store and being attractive enough to get people or get laid. Also for girls being kind of sluttie is good because in the show two girls had boyfriends and regardless of that fact they still hooked up with other people and made out with other people. Being a sweetheart and comforting yet kind of bitchy is "Cool" because Sami is nice and talks to other when they need to talk, but at the same time she does fucked up things, like hooking up with someone and then hooking up with their friend afterwards, and not caring.

2)http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Cool

This shows steps/rules to be cool, and here are a few steps that interested me:

a)don't care so much about what other people think of you

b)to be aware of how people recognize you/see you

c) learn how to laugh at yourself

d) use appropriate language

the first two step contradict each other because how can you not care what other think yet at the same time depend on people to see what type of person you are, i don't think you'll ever be able to just not care what others think, there's always someone you look at, to know if you've improved or not, people influence us, and we cant not be affect by the system.

learning how to laugh at yourself is something i wouldn't think would help you be cool,because people who want to be cool, wouldn't want to be humiliated because then they'd look like each body else,like someone they dont want to be.

Also using appropriate language seems not right to me, because so far from what i've seen in school, TV, outside, the cool people usually talk in slang and curse a lot, tell sick or perverted jokes, which everybody laughs at, and yes they do talk appropriately when they need to but usually they talk in slang and cruse.

3)In Twilight by Stephenie Meyer the cool people in the book were the group of vampire in school, who are beautiful, dark, mysterious and forbidden, everything that drives a woman crazy. The idea of people being able to get taste of the forbidden "fruit" is awesome and cool, and people just love it, they're always wanting to know more, and just keeping reading and watching the, movies. This idea has influenced the culture so much that people just keep writing stories about vampire and human relationship or human and paranormal relationships, and create a lot of art of it. So being able to have a thing going on with the forbidden is cool, and also being beautiful and mysterious is cool.

4)http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=287&id=1478

In the site it says that the way you look is important, more important in a non-uniform school then one that has uniform, because everyone wears the same thing and they have to worry about picking an outfit thats different then others. I dont think thats true because based on movies and books, people in a uniformed school try their hardest to look cool, by shortening their skirts, bagging up their jeans, wearing accessories, and making the sure their appearance looks good. I think the way you look is more important to them because when you're cool, you're trying to look different then others, but in a uniformed school everybody is basically wearing the same thing, so they'd probably be trying harder then non-uniformed school kids, to look different than one another. Also "being yourself" is something that'll make you cool, which i disagree with because you're always being influenced by someone you can never really be yourself, and what if when you're "being yourself" you actually kind of awkward, thats not cool, things/people that aren't awkward are cool.

5)Kimya Dawson "being cool"

lyrics:

Is new york city really like a graveyard they all ask me
and i say well it was last week but man that was in the past
see i stopped going to the places where the people act so nasty
and pretentious 'cause i'm happy sitting with my friends in sidewalk singing songs

and some people are still standing in the way of where i'm going
so i say please excuse me, step aside, or keep on moving
and i guess they sensed that my momentum meant that i was winning
but i'm only just beginning and i'd rather go with friends than go alone

and some people grab my hands and some people grab my shirt
some people race ahead to see if they can get there first
some people stay behind 'cause they've got something else in mind
whatever you decide if you are true to you you're gonna be alright

like akida he's a father now he is in love with amber
their baby's name is skyler he's a baby of the summer
i wonder as i wander if i'll ever settle down
or if every day i'll take my roots uprooted en route to another town

i was sitting on a couch somewhere watching vh-1
when i found out that bruce springsteen is his mother's only son
i'm my mother's only daughter and we were both born to run
even he says it's amazing raising babies in the place where you come from

but i am a rock tumbler i've got rocks inside my head
and just because they come out shining doesn't mean that they are diamonds
and i guess that my worst nightmare is your very favorite bar
when i'm worth my weight in shale and slate i'll know that i'm a super duper star

i'll be a great big ball of burning gas and i'll be sitting on my big fat ass
sipping cristal light beside a plastic wading pool
and the next day i'll be somewhere else part of me will hate myself
part of me will know deep down that i am pretty cool
the part of me that knows i never cared for being cool
the part of me that knows i never cared for being cool
the part of me that knows i never cared for being cool

In the lyrics its says "I'd rather go with friends than go alone" and that reminds me of those shows/movies that show the popular good looking girls going to the bathroom together, instead of alone, i guess its because they depend on others to be popular so to look cooler, they want it to seem like they're always being surround with people no matter where they go, to show that they're not a loner, that they're cool.

Also the "some people race ahead to see if they can get there first" makes me think of how people compete to be number one, to be cooler than others, to be more fashionable. People always go against each other to see who can make more people laugh, who has more friends, i remember a time where my friend and her friend had this bet going on, about who can get the most myspace friends, because the person has bragging rights then the end and they'll seem like a better person to chill with.