Archives for November 2019

Disney+: The New Netflix?

November 21, 2019 by Moriah Mitchell

“To infinity and beyond…” The Disney company is surely doing its best to live up to Buzz Lightyear’s adventurous words by adding a new feather to their hat: An all-new, never-before-seen television subscription that lets you have access to all of Disney’s movies, tv shows, and more.

Disney + is Disney’s brand new subscription program that lets you watch all sorts of shows and movies you can name – all within the Disney brand. This program appeals to kids and adults alike, and it has already taken the media by storm. It launches on November 12, 2019, the day that many people have been waiting for. Let me tell you what Disney+ includes. With Disney+, you will have the accessibility to Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, National Geographic and even all 30 seasons of The Simpsons. Of course, users will also be able to watch Disney media, including its shows and movies. Disney will also be releasing new originals that will only be available on Disney+. These include the live-action remake of The Lady and the Tramp, as well as High School Musical: The Musical The Series. You can also enjoy beautiful documentaries and Disney’s old classics brought to life. All of this can now be brought to your home screen – without paying anything extra. Yup, you heard right: without paying anything extra.

“Coming from a person that was sincerely considering getting Netflix, I see which subscription stands out from the crowd, and that is definitely Disney+.”
Moriah Mitchell, (Disney+: The New Netflix?

This brings me to the reason why Disney+ stands out from all the other tv and movie subscriptions out there. First of all, you pay one price. With Netflix, you have to choose which price out of three you would like to pay depending on how many devices you want to stream at once and the quality of your content. However, with Disney+, you needn’t choose, for there is only one price you can pay. That price is 6.99 a month, or 69.99 a year. When you pay this price, you are allowed to download content on up to ten devices at one time, and you can stream four different shows on four different devices at one time as well. On Netflix, the lowest price you can pay is 8.99 a month, and you can only stream on one device at a time when you pay that price. On top of that, you do not get HD quality or Ultra HD quality with your content with that 8.99 price. What’s more, you do not get the option to pay once a year. You may only pay once a month. Then considering all the other tv subscriptions like Hulu and Starz, which one is especially geared towards all kid-friendly content? This is what makes Disney+ special. Coming from a person that was sincerely considering getting Netflix, I see which subscription stands out from the crowd, and that is definitely Disney+. I have already decided that Netflix is not for me, and I can’t wait for my family to try out all the new trimmings that come with Disney+.

Czech Food

November 14, 2019 by Zoomy Muhammad

Reed Fancher

I recently visited prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic in eastern Europe. While there, I got to try many foods within the city, like dumplings and sauerkraut.

The most popular thing that is had with almost all Czech food is potato dumplings, bread dumplings and carlsbad dumplings as a side of the dish. They’re a kind of like bread and soak up sauces like goulash. Another side dish that is had with a lot of czech food is sauerkraut. Those two foods were brought over to the Czech Republic from Germany and became Czech staples. The Czech also borrowed schnitzel. Schnitzel is fried chicken or ham patty and was brought to the Czech Republic from Austria.

The most common dish you will see on a menu in the Czech Republic is goulash. Czech Goulash is different from Hungarian Goulash. Czech Goulash has more meat and has no vegetables in it unlike Hungarian Goulash. This dish often has a side of potato dumpling like I mentioned earlier. This dish does not change very often, the only thing that might be different is the type of meat.

The main dessert I found and had when I was in Prague was apple strudel. It’s very similar to apple pie but instead it has a more flaky texture to it rather than a crumbly texture that apple pie has. Like apple pie, it’s served with vanilla ice cream a lot of the time. One thing that I noticed was that the strudel doesn’t have a gooey kind of texture around the apples like apple pie has. The apple strudel has the apple slices that are cut pretty thin and carefully stacked on top of each other.

All of these dishes I got to try when I traveled to Prague. I think the cool thing about these foods it that they all came to prague from neighbouring countries like germany and austria.

The Return of the Owl

November 7, 2019 by Luke Fisher

Luke Fisher

This week marks the long awaited return of ODE’s very own newspaper. The ODE Owl.

Last year students Danny Amador, Oscar Caudell and Luke Fisher had the idea to create an ODE newspaper for students and their families. The paper ran for four issues publishing one every two weeks. When the 2019-2020 ODE year started it was revealed that it had a small chance of coming back. But now we can exclusively reveal that on November 8th they will be releasing a six page Special Edition paper. This behemoth issue will pick up where it left off with news from both the last session and news on what’s to come. The paper, ODE To Journalism can reveal, has lost the majority of its staff and is on the hunt for new members to join. This means that any student who wishes to submit articles to their paper or even join the ODE Owl have a much better chance.

So why are they even coming back? Don’t they know that they have some healthy competition in the form of us? Odetojournalism.com and the ODE Owl are not rivals. They have two completely different formats, articles, and ways of distribution. We are planned in class. Written over the week and published on Thursdays. The ODE Owl are planned during the week, Written during the week, and handed out on fridays. The ODE Owl does have a website but for completely different reasons.

What is the point of actually reading their newspaper? For one they sort of put all their eggs in one basket, so to speak. On average they put over a dozen articles in a single copy of their paper. They have class recaps, opinions and editorials, recent news, comics, games, and more. All of this content for free!

Please go check out the ODE Owl and support their hard work. Their website is odeowl.wixsite.com/paper and if you have any questions or comments their email is odeowlnews@gmail.com

How Well Do We Really Know The ODE Store?

November 7, 2019 by Zoomy Muhammad

The ODE store has become a central part of ODE’s community. We flock there every lunch hour for candy, chips, and treats and yet most know very little about the small treat carrying cart. It’s time we all learned a little more about it.

The 25th was the last week before the 2 week long semester break. Many of you may remember it as costume day. I had been curious about the workings of the ODE store long before that day and I knew that I needed to get to the bottom of it. As I mentioned before, many of us live in ignorance of how the ODE store functions and how it came to be. This is most likely because we’re all too busy scrambling for candy to ask questions. It was on that Friday that I decided to conduct an interview with Lavonia Black and her sister Willow Black, the two responsible for manning the ODE store during lunch time. I was able to speak to the two during lunch, however Lavonia shooed her sister away in favor of answering the questions herself.

Q: How long has the ODE store been around?

A: Lavonia, with some hesitation, answered that the store had been around for 4 years, however she advised me not to quote her on that. Luke Fisher interjected and said that ODE store had actually been around for 4 and a half years, much to Lavonia’s annoyance.

Q: My next question is How long have you been working at the ODE store?

A: 3 years.

Q: How has the store changed over the years you’ve been working here?

A: It has become much better.

Q: In what ways?

A: I started working here and took over. And after that, lets just say it went uphill.

Q: Was there any difference in the stuff sold? Candy wise or food wise?

A: Yeah, we didn’t use to sell so many chocolate items like these milk duds.

Q: Who was working at the store before you?

A: My mother, Cassy, and that’s it. It was basically run by my mom.

(For those who don’t know, Cassy has been a helper here at ODE for many years)

Q: Why do you think the ODE store is important?

A: It gives food to people who want food. We provide food for those starving.

Q: Have you gotten complaints about the ODE store?

A: Yes!

Q: What type?

A: People expect me to sell things that are just ridiculous!

Q: What types of things? Give me examples.

A: Sushi, gatorade, cheese, like no! I’m not gonna straight up get cheese!

Q: Where does the money go?

A: Into buying more stuff.

Q: You don’t get paid?

A: Well, not usually.

Here is where I concluded my interview with Lavonia, having gleaned so much new information from the experience. However, i was not done. After the interview I went to ask others their opinion on the ODE store.

Sammy Amador: My opinion is that its been going pretty well for a good amount of time, but, and I have bought a lot of things and it has given me some free stuff, but my respect could be higher for it if they had cheese. Then I would actually bring money and buy cheese because I buy cheese on a regular basis.

Q: Luke(Fisher), do you have any information on the development of the ODE store?

A: It has devolved and turned into a cart.

Q: No, like, why was the ODE store started?

A: I think because they knew that everybody would bring out their wallets to pay for stuff.

Lavonia, who was nearby, corrected Luke Fisher.

Lavonia Black: That is not why it started! Its because people didn’t bring enough food and they were hungry at lunch.

Most opinions from the ODE upper school were overwhelmingly positive. Upper school students often said that they find the store to be a good thing. Students praise the store for having a good variety of food. Abby Amador claimed to be “in love” with the ODE store and saying it is “her life”. Students find the store to be a useful addition because they don’t have to worry so much about bringing a lunch. Ivy Merrill expressed that she the ODE store should give her free Caprisuns every week because she is “a really good person”.

While almost all of the opinions on the store were positive, one student, Jayden Cervantes, had a few complaints.

Jayden: You know, my opinion about it is that y’all need better snacks, its wack. Y’all get in like that gluten free stuff and I don’t mess with that.

While its been established that the ODE store does not take suggestions, the store has still provided us with so much. From meaningful interactions, to snacks and candy. Most students rely on the ODE store for their lunch and many more enjoy it for the snacks and candy. For all the the ODE store gives us, the least we can do is to know more about it so that we can appreciate the ODE store as more than a cart of goodies.

Costume Day Recap

November 7, 2019 by Luke Fisher

On October 11th it was announced that the first of many new spirit days would be Costume Day. Costume Day gave students a chance to dress up and use their Halloween Costumes at ODE. At the time of this going public, Costume Day was just two weeks ago and I got to see the results for myself. I saw everything from an awesome home-made spiderman costume to an evil witch to a ghost capturing ghost-buster. The sad thing is that only around 30% of ODE students actually dressed up. Some had reason like no costume because they don’t celebrate Halloween. Some people had costumes but they were too fragile to wear. Those two reasons combined make up a good portion of ODE but there were still others with costumes the could wear and celebrated Halloween who still didn’t wear theirs. On the bright side it made the people who did wear costumes have there’s stand out from the crowd. These select students pictures are down below.