This article was a list of tips on how to be cool at school. How you can achieve coolness in school if you follow the list of 13 tips which suggest you "have your own sense of style" and "be fit, clean, and smell good" because this is what people in school will be looking for in order to define you as cool or not.
I thought that the list of tips was funny like " if you're a girl, always wear a bit of jewelry" because wearing jewelry will be the key factor in determining if I'm cool or not. I also liked that the list included "respecting others" and "keeping an open mind" because it reminded me of what some of the people I interviewed said made a person cool. I thought it was interesting that this article mentioned nothing about being yourself but rather it was a list of how to fit in and put a mask on when your at school.
Rice, Jeff. "What is Cool? Notes on Intellectualism, Popular Culture, and Writing ." CTheory 1. Web. 7 Dec 2009.
This article was about what is cool? and marketing coolness to people. As stated in a wired magazine article titled "The Phenomenon of Cool" , there definition of cool is the advertisement's audience, purpose, and product for sale. How everyone is so occupied with becoming cool or having the coolest latest stuff.
This article made me realize that advertisers try to market products as cool or as the hottest new trend in order to get us to buy, buy ,buy , which we end up doing. But the coolest item or the latest trend is not long lasting since there are constantly new "cool" products coming out and the coolest trends end up becoming last season's trends. What's cool today might not be cool tomorrow.
Fenichel,Michael. "What is "Cool"? (What's Hot? What's Not?)." Michael Fenichel Teaching Tools 1. (Copyright ©1997-2008): n. pag. Web. 7 Dec 2009.
This article was about the obstacles that adolescence face, one being achieving ultimate coolness. It talked about teens using other teens to define themselves.
I thought that it was interesting that all teens at some point want to be cool or liked by the group of people they are trying to fit in with and they do so by changing their appearance or altering themselves in order to be accepted by their peers. A lot of this fitting in and being accepted has to do with self esteem. Instead one should start accepting themselves instead of pleasing others which they might find is better than being cool.
Other sites visited:
Who, Alan. "How To Be Cool." Alan Who? 1. 1. Web. 7 Dec 2009.
Buehler, doyle. "You're not cool - I am. What is cool & finding the cool factor.." Fast Company 1. (2008): 1. Web. 7 Dec 2009.
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