A Magical Meeting With People I Will Never Know

          If I could have a meeting with 3 famous people, I would have one with Alexander Graham Bell, Shah Rukh Khan, and Gordon Ramsay, and it would be in a restaurant.

          I chose Alexander not only because I researched him in 4th Grade, but also because I want to know about certain aspects of his life. As a child he grew up with a deaf mother and I wanted to know how he overcame such a strong gap with someone as close as his mother. He also had a natural knack for inventing when he was young, an example being him creating a dehusker. I also wanted to know his emotions when he first created the telephone, as I imagine it was a very big deal.

         If you don't know who Shah Rukh Khan is, then I feel bad for you(No offense). He's a very famous Indian actor who is considered one of the most influential people in India. He is also a huge philanthropist to disaster relief and health care, and is a supporter of children's education. He also has a nice beard. I would love to meet him and discuss the world with him, and i'm sure he would be awesome at conversation along with mixing humor into it.

        I chose Gordon Ramsay because I've recently taken more of an interest in cooking and it would be awesome to try some of his foods. He would give me me some of those famous insults, and knowing me, he would probably go even harsher. However, it would be nice to really get to know him.

       I would choose a restaurant because it's a casual place to hang out, and we could try some of Gordon's dishes. SRK would probably be cracking jokes while Alexander would try to fancily describe the quality of the food. All in all, it would be an awesome meeting

The Importance of Field Trips

              The title of this blog post is about the importance of field trips, which is pretty high. Field trips are a good way to teach students without using the traditional classroom approach. Students generally(note that I said generally) tend to pay more attention to things on field trips, because they're not that used to being at different places and learning in them other than school. We get ecstatic when we hear that we're having field trips, because it's a chance for us to actually learn AND remember lessons that we usually wouldn't get in school. If field trips were to be stopped, we would stop getting exposure to meaningful learning opportunities outside of school.

A Cinematic Experience Worthy For All The Awards: Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange

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Doctor Strange is the latest installment in the critically acclaimed Marvel Cinematic Universe, based on the Marvel comic books. It is an amazing show of visual effects and storytelling, and of the best movies in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. It starts off with the extremely wealthy neurosurgeon Stephen Strange(Benedict Cumberbatch). He is a cocky, self centered man who doesn't recognize the effect of his attitude on his coworkers, including his love interest Christine Palmer(Rachel McAdams).

While driving down a road at night, he suffers a car accident in which his hands are practically destroyed. His career as a neurosurgeon is effectively ended, and he spends all of his resources trying to fix himself. He ostracizes himself from the people he knows, and becomes a broken man. He travels across the world in a last ditch effort to save his career and restore him to the man he once was. What follows is a visual masterpiece involving sorcery and the world as we know it.

Within the movie are scenes of pure mastery, too detailed and thought out to be accurately described in this movie review. These sequences are mind bending and colorful, showing a new universe unheard of to man, also exhibiting the countless hours of work in production of the movie. There are reality warping sequences that remind viewers of Inception with a little Harry Potter thrown in. I cannot believe that Dr. Strange did not win an Oscar for its effects, but they were wonderful regardless.

The storytelling of the movie was excellent, but there were some instances in which it was rushed. I could understand having to cut between months of action in-movie, but additional background information could've been provided. However, the transition in the movie from the broken shell of a man to a man that is multiple times better than what he was originally was excellent. The movie truly illustrates how Stephen progressed as a human mentally.

Overall, Dr. Strange is an excellent movie, beautifully thought out and executed. I give it a 9.5/10. I hope that the future films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe live up to the bar set by Dr. Strange.