The Point

The Point

The Point

Pint-Sized Stories: Earth Week

Chloe Choi and Luka Ardon, Centerspread Editors April 18, 2023

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Entry to the girls locker room. (Photo by Eva Yancheson)

PVHS Needs Some Updates: Looking Into The District’s Lack Of Funding

Eva Yancheson, Reporter April 14, 2023

The “Main Event”, a local auction with parents and other PV residents, is the biggest source of outside revenue for the Palos Verdes Peninsula School District.  Admission is 175 dollars a ticket...

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The iPad Kid Epidemic

Quinn Kearns, Social Media Editor April 14, 2023

Have you ever seen a child at a dinner playing games on their mom’s phone?  If you have, you’ve witnessed a future iPad kid in their natural habitat.  When their request for a real phone is...

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A Letter From the Editors

Lucia Ruiz and Amber Chen, Editors-in-Chief April 14, 2023

Journalistic integrity is one of the first things we learned in high school journalism. Principles like honesty make up the very foundation of fair news reporting.  While we students prepared to enter...

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The Importance Of Dual Immersion Schools

Luka Ardon, Centerspread Editor April 14, 2023

Dual-Immersion schools are bilingual schools teaching in English and another language. These schools can be a great opportunity for children to become bilingual fairly easily.  But for students in...

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The TikTok-ification Of The Music Industry

Olivia Kao, Reporter April 14, 2023

Steve Lacy, a popular indie artist who has been a big name in the R&B scene for years, released his single “Bad Habit” in the summer of 2022, which soon after reached number one on the Billboard...

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Hyper Inclusivity in Classic Literature

The problem with editing books for modern times
Ella Sherry, News/Online Editor April 14, 2023

“Fat,” “ugly,” “crazy,” “mothers,” “fathers”—these are all words in Roald Dahl’s books that have been edited out or changed for not being inclusive enough.  In February, Puffin...

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From A Disappointed Marvel Fan: Ant-Man Tanked

From A Disappointed Marvel Fan: Ant-Man Tanked

Chris Vasey, Reporter March 14, 2023

Marvel just released one of their most disappointing movies of all time, “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.”  According to Rotten Tomatoes, it was one of Marvel’s worst rated movies, and personally,...

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How Old Is Too Old?

The toxicity behind Hollywood’s glamorization of age gap relationships
Eva Mayrose, Opinion Editor March 14, 2023

48 and 19, 31 and 21, 64 and 39.  No this isn’t a sudoku puzzle, it’s the ages of three famous Hollywood names in comparison to the ages of their wives or girlfriends.  You may have noticed the smallest...

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Fast Fiction

The problem with “BookTok”
Ella Sherry, News/Online Editor March 14, 2023

If you’re a reader who also has social media, whenever you open TikTok or Instagram you’re probably bombarded with videos about the same books you heard about months ago: “A Court of Thorns and Roses”...

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A Letter From the Editors

Amber Chen and Lucia Ruiz, Editors-in-Chief March 14, 2023

Humans have generations upon generations of experience with writing. For centuries, writing has been a way to share ideas, communicate emotions and connect with others. But in 2023, these powers are being...

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Queerbaiting is Problematic for Everyone

Sophie Stoddart, Reporter March 14, 2023

Today, queerbaiting is considered a marketing technique for fiction and entertainment in which creators hint at or imply a queer relationship or identity, but do not depict or confirm it. The meaning of...

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