Dr. 90210

Plastic surgery is a person's way of looking like someone else and changing what God gave them. Many people think that looks mean everything and that they need to change how they look or they will not be accepted and well liked. Everyone wants to look good and thinks that with looks comes success. Well, the solution to those people's problems is plastic surgery. The show on TV called Dr. 90210 is all about how humans want to alter how they look because they are not satisfied. Plastic Surgery is similar to Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy because the girl in Barbie Doll wants to change how she looks and wishes she was like a Barbie so it would be very easy to look different. However, she is not Barbie and is not able to change how she looks and ends up dying. Plastic Surgery could be the solution to her problems or actually be the cause of her death. Plastic Surgery can get addicting and in the end may change how you look entirely just like Heidi Montag and when someone undergoes such a vast operation they may as well be dead because they no longer look like how they did before.

Lasers

Lupe Fiasco's new album Lasers (backronym for Love Always Shines Everytime, Remember 2 Smile) is utterly amazing. I could listen to it everyday. When Lupe Fiasco was making this album he was forced to conform to the record label and make songs the label wanted. The heads at Atlantic Records wanted him to make mainstream songs that will top the billboards, but Lupe just wanted to rap and be himself. He wanted to make music that was him and not commercial music. Some sources say that Lupe was almost suicidal because the label forced him to release an album for commercial purposes and to rack in money. Lupe did not want a album that is to please the whole public but to please his loyal fans that want true "Lupe" rapping. Lupe was forced to conform to the label. Lupe just like Gregor in Metamorphosis succumbed to the giant of conformity. Conformity is intimidating and really took a hold of Lupe, and causing him to breakdown and become almost suicidal. Furthermore, thank god he did not commit suicide because that would be the loss of a great artist in the Hip Hop industry and would leave many true fans, including myself, in sorrow. Lasers is available everywhere and many people have probably heard the track: The Show Goes On.

Intro

Unlike Kafka's Conformist world in Metamorphosis, life before Mao zedong was good and there was nothing to worry about. But, after Mao came to power it was an ideal conformist society in China. Cultural revolution took over everyone’s life. My grandmother went through this change she went through total redistribution of wealth. My grandmother grew up as a rebel. She was the one of her 6 sisters who would always defy the rules of her family; she had a pixie cut, which at the time and even now is seen as a very risky haircut. My grandmother was a tomboy in a time when girls were supposed to act like girls. She was truly a rebel and although she grew up in Communist China, she had a liberal view on how she wanted to live. My grandma was the opposite of Gregor, she did not let conformity take over her life and ruin her life. She made the best out of what she had and went against Maoist China. My grandmother was a pioneer and a rebel of her time. Conformity only takes a hold of those who give into it, as long as one is strong and fight off confinement he/she will never have to meet Gregor's demise.

Essay

My grandma grew up in conformist china but she was a rebel. I would like to juxtapose her life to Gregor's. Gregor submitted to conformity but my grandma was the polar opposite. She did everything she could to go against conformity from haircut and how she dressed to how she was in school. I am going to interview my grandma and take Kafka's metamorphosis to compare what she says in her interview to how Gregor is.