materialistic. He says that by participating in these fantasy worlds, which we know are completely fake, we are conforming to society. We leave these theme parks with a false reality and we lose our desires to experience real events. (Eco, 445) In this day and age, an individual has all the resources to get out into the world and experience it, but so may people are completely worn out and will settle for theme parks as opposed to the real thing. Theme parks take much of the hassle out of going on vacation. They are a mindless place for a family to go on vacation and act like a drone, or 'robot'.An interview conducted of a fellow student here at Drexel proves that conformity is not always one's main reason for making decision. The student interview helped me to gain a better understanding of my interviewee's decision making process. She is not a conformist. Julia makes decisions based on her needs and wants. She does not care what everyone else is doing. She feels that if everyone is doing it then it's probably not worth it. She is very much an individual and wants to stay that way. There is no influencing her in her process; she weighs all the pros and cons and decides the final outcome. In relation to myself and my decision making process she is very similar. Basically, our only difference involves spontaneity. She has it, I don't. Both of our process's show relation to the works of Orwell and Eco and the decisions made within the essays. In correlation to my student interview, based upon ethical decision making, one topic pertains to "Shooting an Elephant". That topic is one in which a student was asked to go to a party and once there, was somewhat pressured into trying drugs. The person interviewed answered the question in a similar way to that of Machiavelli and Orwell. My interviewee stated that if she went to a party and was asked to do drugs she might not do them if she had never tried them before, but if she...
