Out Of Mind In Supersize Me

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Throughout these works it has taught me a lot of things but the one idea I’m focusing on is the idea of “out of sight out of mind”. This to me means that if you don’t have self-control you can over do yourself and do not plan to make a change you can affect yourself mentally and physically.
As we seen in both supersize me and reading the jungle these things have taught us a lot about how the world can be so cruel and how they can hide the most important details from us as in Supersize Me Morgan Spurlock tries to call in and get to McDonald’s presidents and tries to ask them so questions but they never respond back to him which means that they were hiding something or are irritated with him calling. In the jungle they talk about how the people

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