What’s new at Allen

EAGLE/ANGLE / FEATURES WHAT’S NEW AT ALLEN? F HALL F HALL

Photos by | Alessio Haro and Gisselle Alvillar

Classrooms including new TV screens, desks as well as the teacher’s name under the room number are part of the halls new renovations. “It’s easier to find your classes because the teachers names are on them, and it looks more organized,”Junior Muskan Ali said. Before the revamp, the teachers name of the class was displayed above the door.

There have been technological improvement to F Hall as well, such as the clocks. “The clocks look better and are actually useful,” said senior Seyar Muhsen. The brand new digital clocks in the renovated hallway are fully functioning rather than other clocks around the school. One of the unique new features of F Hall consists of the new pods. “I appreciate the F Hall renovation because of the new pods and the updated feel,” sophomore Andrew Carbonell said. The pods consist of couches, desks, and TV screens, but are unfortunately not accessible for students at the moment.

The hallways in F Hall look very different than the rest of the hallways around the school. “To me, I think it looks too bland, it needs a pop of color,” junior Cole Philips said. Currently, F Hall is still under construction.

Story by | Lilly Arnold

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Those four categories of learning comprise STEM, a general acronym for classes that integrate those four specific disciplines and apply them to the real world to help prepare students for future careers.

Going astray from what’s common, Allen ISD’s new center adds in another letter. The A in STEAM is for the arts, which may seem out of place among the others at first. Once looked at from the big picture, art plays a major role in all four of STEM’s sectors.

“On the high school side we have a couple of different art-driven classes,” executive director of AISD’s STEAM center, Larry Labue, said. “We have graphic design, interior design and architecture, and engineering design.”

According to Labue, an early committee looked at all the math, science and art classes in Career and Technical Education to see how they would integrate together, and those particular art classes integrated “quite nicely” with the other subjects. For example, art can be implemented with technology in the instance of website design, or with engineering with sketches and blueprints.

“All of our different content area teachers have time during the day that they plan together,” Labue said. “Your CTE teacher will work with your math teacher and your science teacher to make sure that all the different content is interconnected, and that they are planning lessons that match all the different areas. Art is intertwined within everything everybody does.”

According to administrators, the STEAM center’s goal is to provide innovative learning experiences that stimulate curiosity, creativity and problem solving. Adding in the arts element connects and enriches the sciences, giving students a unique opportunity to use art skills to improve their ideas and projects in the STEM field.

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EAGLE/ANGLE / COMMENTARY Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

The new era of Shonen anime has arrived.

As a pretty avid anime fanatic, I’ve watched a good amount of mainstream and lesser-known animes including “Inuyasha”, “Devilman Crybaby”, “the Promised Neverland”, “Bungo Stray Dogs”, and my personal favorite as of right now, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba..” Some people have given the description that Demon Slayer is the dawn of a new Shonen era, which I agree with. “Demon Slayer” is definitely a breath of fresh air within popular Shonen titles like “Naruto”, “Hunter x Hunter”, and “Fullmetal Alchemist.”

The first distinction is easily the art style. “Demon Slayer” is extremely colorful and not afraid to use very bright and vivid colors in it’s aesthetic — on the flip side there’s a lot of dark, rich deep colors as well. It’s an extremely beautiful anime. In addition, the shadows are more harsh and sharp compared to older anime art styles. The animation is considerably more distinctive as well compared to ‘traditional’ anime; a lot more fluidity within the characters’ movements and fight scenes. With the character design, the first detail that immediately made the character design different were the eyes.

Overall, anime eyes are usually always big— that’s just the art style of anime — and “Demon Slayer” is no exception. However there is one key difference, and that is how the eyes are specific to each character. Now, obviously, of course, different characters have different eyes, however, the eyes on each character are all constructed individually. For instance, the protagonist of the show, Tanjiro Kamado, his eyes aren’t perfectly round, there’s a hint of a hexagonal shape. For Shinobu Kocho, a Hashira, her eyes don’t include a pupil, they’re just one color.

Next, the storyline is pretty original, but it does feel reminiscent of other animes where the protagonist goes on a journey with his friends and becomes super strong along the way. However, that isn’t good nor bad— I have enjoyed the story so far and it’s very entertaining. The plot of “Demon Slayer” is Tanjiro Kamado, the eldest in his family, who finds his family slaughtered by a demon with only Nezuko, his little sister, surviving. He becomes a part of the Demon Slayer Corps and the rest is based on that.

However, some episodes have felt very fast, and others very slow. The pacing of the journey isn’t always the best, which affects the storytelling varying ways. Especially in the beginning — when Tanjiro trains to become stronger, it doesn’t feel rewarded enough, which some other animes have a problem with too: the protagonist suddenly becomes a super-strong warrior for the convenience of the story.

Moreover, when Tanjiro encounters two powerful demons who work together, and they are seemingly very strong relative to other demons because of their status with Muzan Kibutsuji, the first demon to exist, the two are defeated pretty quickly and easily. To expand on this, Tanjiro defeats a former Demon Moon – extremely high-level demons — what seems to be effortless. However, when encountering other powerful demons in the forest a couple of episodes later, it’s drawn out more and Tanjiro seems weaker than before.

In addition, the way demons are explained and handled is a little bit incongruent. For example, the first demon he encounters is a very low skilled one, however after this one is killed, the show never touches on those types of ‘low skilled’ demons again. Tanjiro solely runs into very high skilled demons, which is very convenient for his journey. of the four main characters is phenomenal. Sometimes, animes can gloss over minor characters, but Demon Slayer provides touching backstories for them. I care about Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu, and Inosuke (my favorite.) Each of the characters have their own definite personalities that complement each other. Alongside the characterization of the main characters, the protagonist can only be as good as the antagonist, and the characterization of the demons themselves is done very well.

There is one absolutely beautiful scene of Tanjiro killing a demon, and I honestly shed some tears because of how beautiful the death was. That scene only worked because the demon was very well executed as a character. I felt for them, I felt their pain and suffering. At the same time, the more malicious demons feel almost like traditional hard opponents for Tanjiro – witty lines of dialogue, the evil laugh, and always gets defeated. However, Muzan Kibutsuji, even though we’ve seen about a total of five minutes of him within the on-going series, is presented as a very evil and clever character. He reminds me a little bit of Naraku from “Inuyasha” which I don’t mind at all.

Overall, “Demon Slayer” has been very entertaining and I can see myself becoming very invested in the show. The show is on its first season, and it’s awesome so far. I highly recommend it to everyone– the art is beautiful and the characters are developed and personable. I rate “Demon Slayer” a B+.

Shonen: (Shōnen, shonen, or shounen manga is manga aimed at a young teen male target-demographic. Weekly Shōnen “Jump” is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. It is the best-selling manga magazine.)

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