Beauty is like potential and kinetic energy. Potential energy is the energy that has yet to be acted upon, while kinetic energy is the energy used up by that buildup of potential energy. The beauty yet to be realized is potential, and it is the connotation we have of ourselves that can be acted upon, both negatively and positively. We aim for the latter. As already mentioned, there are always two spectrums of the problem and there is always a harmful ideology of beauty. Many women have dangerously low self-esteem. Intervention, a television series on A&E, forces people who have come to a crossroads with their inner demons to confront their compulsive behavior before a major crisis occurs. In one episode, Grandma Sharon, 51, an obsessive shopper who is so unhappy with her appearance that she has undergone several plastic surgeries, also seeks refuge in physical self-abuse. “I'm so ugly and fat and stupid,” she said as she sobbed and hit herself repeatedly on the head with a hairbrush. Sharon is not unattractive. Why does he feel so physically inferior that he has to bruise his whole body? It's obvious where the blame lies for all these senseless inadequacies that women feel: in the media. Women airbrushed to ideal perfection from magazine cover to magazine cover, from advert to advert, from clique to clique. Many people are deaf to many concepts, the crucial one being that most, if not all, of the images on television, in billboard advertisements, and the faces on magazine covers have been altered, airbrushed, fixed, and enhanced in Photoshop, and the thousand other ways to create a false idiosyncrasy that some women believe: These images are real. In his famous article in the Boston Globe (2010), Globe corr...... middle of paper ......fection, the opposite was in fact achieved. Collins displays an intense and urgent tone that shows the importance of the issue and keeps readers entertained from start to finish. In his groundbreaking poem, otherwise known as one of the greatest odes of the American language, “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” (1820), John Keats implies the beauty of an unattainable goal, in this case unfulfilled love. Keats supports this statement by formulating the paradox that unspoken music is the best form. “Melodies heard are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter” He then tells this to a couple fixed in an irreversible state where neither is able to embrace the other. The intent of this metaphor is to convey beauty in everything, even where you are sure it does not exist. Keat's tone is sincere to his audience because his goal is to bring the reader to his own conclusion.