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Older BMW versus its modern counterpart

BMW – Then and Now

Christine Pndlyan, Staff Writer October 1, 2024

BMW, formally pronounced as Bayerische Motoren Werke, has changed throughout the years that it's been around. When BMW first made their debut leading back into the early 1900s, their cars were phenomenal...

Transformers One movie poster

Rolling Out to a Good Movie

Collin Sweeny, Staff Reporter October 1, 2024

The movie Transformers One is an entirely different Transformers movie that sets up the origin story for the Transformers world. It shows us that long before the bad blood between Optimus Prime and Megatron,...

Mental Health Check for Juniors

Mental Health Check for Juniors

Venus Beckner, Staff Reporter October 1, 2024

When most graduates are asked, “What was your hardest year of high school?”, most people will commonly say eleventh grade. As students in high school deal with multiple assignments, tasks, and responsibilities...

Tomas O'Grady with Enrich LA

Community Service Hours Removal

Christine Chung, Editor-in-chief September 27, 2024

Confirmed this year, the community service hour requirement at Kennedy High School is being revoked, allowing for the graduation of seniors to become an easier process, whilst giving high achieving students...

From Educated To Educator

From Educated To Educator

Christine Chung, Staff Writer May 2, 2023

Seniors participating in the Teaching Academy this year have the opportunity to work for LAUSD in the near future after they receive the necessary curriculum required to educate children.  These preliminary...

How Art Class Can Help Mental Health

How Art Class Can Help Mental Health

Monica Hernandez, Staff Writer May 2, 2023

What many people don’t know is that therapists everywhere use art as a method for patients to resolve their thoughts and emotions. It allows people to express themselves and let their minds be free....

Club Promotion Should Be Better

Victoria Jimenez, Staff Writer April 26, 2023

 Kennedy’s clubs don’t get promoted enough for students to know what kind of benefits they could get by joining the clubs. We have club rushes twice a year, one each semester but to be honest, I don’t...

National College Signing Day Needs a New Day

Miles Gardin, Layout Editor April 26, 2023

May 1st is the impending date high school seniors across the country have to make a life-impacting decision. National College Decision Day, also referred to as College Signing Day, is a rite of passage...

Tutor.com Is Beneficial for Students K-12

Connor I. Castro, Staff Writer April 19, 2023

Tutor.com is a website that students can use to ask for assistance in terms of their schoolwork. Tutor.com is able to provide 1-to-1 online tutoring sessions in both English and Spanish. Tutor.com manages...

A gamer raging out at Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 2 Sucks

Victoria Jimenez, Staff Writer April 19, 2023

   Modern Warfare ll only has a well-balanced campaign not multiplayer, resulting in the sad truth that the game was underdeveloped and could’ve been better. It was over-hyped and many people, including...

Fowlks preparing brownies for Cougar Cafe

Jasmine Fowlks Retiring After 22 Years of Service at Kennedy

Connor I Castro, Staff Writer March 30, 2023

Jasmine Fowlks, a staff member for the Special Ed department and helper for the Cougar Cafe, is retiring.       Fowlks has been to four countries throughout her life, with one of those countries...

Do Tests Really Matter?

Andrew A. Beltran, Staff Writer March 7, 2023

  Tests are intended to show schools and teachers a student’s academic progress and success or failures, but is it really the best way to evaluate a student? For a long time, many believed that to...

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