Beauty is a powerful instrument, twisted and contorted, to corrupt the minds of younger generations trying to live up to an impossible image the media pushes on their impressionable minds. Society is taught from a young age that this entity, beauty, is achievable, yet, sets the standard so ridiculously high, that when trying to reach it, people become both physically and mentally distorted. Beauty is an unjust, unfair, and unattainable idea that is pushed upon susceptible minds and programmed to change their idea of this thing we set upon a falsely elevated pedestal.

The media, an unavoidable power, that projects images of beauty seen by all, so that an ideal is formed and people are forced to live up to this standard or be deemed ugly. "Over the past thirty years, more than any time in history, women have been aggressively confronted by an impossibly thin...