Cool seems to a mental and physical. Many different aspects of being cool.
Our physical appearance plays a majors role in becoming cool. In a school period group’s whet out on the streets to finds answers about questions they had about cool. A man we meet wearing a leather jacket and some slacks with a cowboy hat; we asked him if he thought he was cool and he said “isn’t it obvious,” Right after lighting a cigar. The way that he is dressed is different than the current style. He is being the rebel to current style. Although he shows class, wearing a nice pair of loafers and quality slacks. Now that most of the world knows the affects of smoking when he lights the ciger he is basically showing off that he is dangerous which is cool.
The performance
Cool is a common idea. Large companies agree on a couple things. Nobody wears what they wear because it is natural. The whole idea of clothing is a performance, and to perform well you have to conform to what other people wear. At the same time it is imporat not to copy exactly what other people are wearing.
Tattoos/pircings
Guest speaker Principle john fanning of School of the future talked about the tattoos that he had revived over his lifetime. The pain that he went through was worth it he said
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To Jin:
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't mind that I comment you because my other triangle partner failed to do her rough draft yet and you did yours most recently. :)
I am a little bit confused about your thesis, I feel like it cuts off a little but maybe it is just me. Are you trying to say that our need to be cool affects us mentally and physically? Maybe thats how I would have wrote it; our strong need to be cool affects how we act physically and mentally.
In the first paragraph, I think I see where you are getting at. You might want to include our need to be "unique" and "different" but not too different or it would be seen as uncool and weird. We take this idea and we formulate a character, when we have choosen a character we play the roles that this character would play out, kind of like a script. For example Stephanie Adames in our class plays the popular girl, Conor plays the comedian, I play the "who cares" role. The cowboy hat dude who you interviewed wanted to play the role of maybe a badass. In doing so he comes of conceided, being well aware that he is "obviously cool" and smoking a cigar. In result he is able to portray this badass cowboy image. I like that you put the little part about the effects of smoking. It kind of shows how his result of trying to come off so cool maybe not be very healthy for him, the results may not be good.
List of stuff you may want to include:
-Peoples stories (you can talk about the roles of different people and compare them, what really cool. What is "fake" cool.)
-Maybe talk about why Mr. Fanning got the Tattoos- trying to fill a certain role he was playing.
-How may these roles help us or not help us?
-Self Presentation- The Presentation of Self in Every Day Life (An article Andy passed out in class, this would fit well in your paper I think)
Keep it up, semesters almost over. ;)