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"We're always on the prowl."

The Centreville Sentinel

Ashley Park

Ashley Park, Editor

Ashley Park is a senior at Centreville High and enjoying her third year on the Sentinel staff. She enrolled in the Journalism program because writing articles has allowed her to express herself and explore various styles of writing. Afterschool, Ashley plays tennis for the Centreville Tennis team. In the future, she hopes to pursue a career in either journalism, creative writing, or even literature.

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Review: Kung Fu Panda 4

Ashley Park
March 19, 2024

The fourth installment of the Kung Fu Panda story was released in theaters on Friday, March 8th. The movie, like its predecessors, is an animated comedy enjoyed by families of all ages. The announcement...

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Anyone But You: The Valentine Encore Review

Ashley Park
February 22, 2024

Starting February 9th, movie theaters re-released Anyone But You through the Valentine Encore, which provides exclusive content and extra footage. The movie, originally released in December of 2023, showcases...

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Review: Wonka

Ashley Park
January 2, 2024

Warner Bros’ production Wonka premiered on December 15, 2023 in the United States. Falling into both fantasy and musical genres, Wonka follows the origin story of Willy Wonka before the establishment...

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Review: The Boy and the Heron

Ashley Park
December 15, 2023

On December 8th, Studio Ghibli released The Boy and the Heron in the United States. With both Japanese and English dubbed versions made available, the film is accessible to watch in theaters around the...

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Movie

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Movie

Ashley Park
October 28, 2023

From March to August, Taylor Swift has been trekking across the nation with her Eras Tour, and this journey has now been encapsulated and brought to the big screen with Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie. The...

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The Summer I Turned Pretty Confirmed For a Third Season

Ashley Park
September 21, 2023

(Disclaimer: This review includes brief spoilers on the novel The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han.) On August 3rd, popular series The Summer I Turned Pretty was confirmed to be renewed for a third...

Scarlett Johansson's Interview with Variety

Scarlett Johansson’s Interview with Variety

Ashley Park
May 23, 2023

In a recent interview with Variety, Marvel actress Scarlett Johansson revisited the details of her 2021 lawsuit with Disney. Johansson went into depth on multiple topics, such as her history as a child...

Centreville Pyramid Art Show

Centreville Pyramid Art Show

Ashley Park
May 8, 2023

The Centreville High School art department hosted its annual Centreville Pyramid Art Show on Wednesday, April 19th, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Artwork was submitted by students whose schools fell in the district,...

Teacher Spotlight: Mrs. Brown

Teacher Spotlight: Mrs. Brown

Ashley Park
April 17, 2023

Mrs. Heidi Brown is a double-AP course teacher at Centreville, an expert in both AP Psychology and AP U.S. History. She came to Centreville as a teacher in 2013, teaching psychology throughout the past...

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Physical: 100 Review

Ashley Park
March 20, 2023

Straight from Korea is the Netflix show Physical: 100, and it’s sweeping the top ranks. First airing on January 24, 2023, the show consists of a series of challenges that are designed to ultimately determine...

OPINION: Increasing Usage of Social Media

OPINION: Increasing Usage of Social Media

Ashley Park
February 21, 2023

With the constant normalization of cell phones in the possession of younger generations, increases in social media usage are inevitable. The standard age at which children get their first phones continues...

New Biden Student Loan Plan

New Biden Student Loan Plan

Ashley Park
January 31, 2023

The start of this new calendar year brings updates to President Biden’s Student Loan Plan that could potentially affect countless qualifying students. First introduced in August 2022, President Biden...

Harry and Meghan Netflix Documentary

Harry and Meghan Netflix Documentary

Ashley Park
January 17, 2023

On December 8, 2022, the first installment of the widely-anticipated Netflix docuseries covering the narrative of Prince Harry and retired actress Meghan Markle was released, sparking mixed reviews off...

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Theatre Centreville Presents Mutually Assured Destruction

Ashley Park and Kayla Katounas
December 8, 2022

From November 18th-20th, Theatre Centreville performed their fall play, Mutually Assured Destruction: 10 Plays About Brothers and Sisters by Don Zolidis. The show was split up into two acts, which together...

Book Review: It Starts with Us

Book Review: It Starts with Us

Ashley Park
November 28, 2022

Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us, published in 2016, gained immense traction on the social media platform TikTok throughout the last year. As a result, a large majority of readers and fans sought a sequel,...

Book Review: Reminders of Him

Book Review: Reminders of Him

Ashley Park
October 20, 2022

Reminders of Him, written by Colleen Hoover, was published on January 18, 2022. It, like the majority of Hoover’s novels, fits into the contemporary romance genre and is best suited for young adults. Young...

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Serena Williams’s Final U.S. Open

Ashley Park
September 30, 2022

In her ultimate United States (U.S) Open, Serena Williams’s brilliant plays and points grab the attention of spectators throughout the nation. On the 29th of August at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens,...

Book Review: All Your Perfects

Book Review: All Your Perfects

Ashley Park
May 24, 2022

Yet another book review and are we even surprised that it’s another young adult romance novel by New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover? All Your Perfects, released in the summer of 2018, explores...

Book Review: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Book Review: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Ashley Park
May 6, 2022

To acknowledge the coming of summer that we never thought would, the young-adult contemporary novel The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han would be a perfect and speedy read for this bright season of...

THE NEW NORMAL: New Connections

THE NEW NORMAL: New Connections

Ashley Park
May 2, 2022

It was supposed to just be that one day off school, which then turned into two weeks that became a month, and all of a sudden, we were facing the rest of the school year being online. I was in the eighth...

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Book Review: November Nine

Ashley Park
March 15, 2022

The novel November Nine, written by Colleen Hoover was, ironically, published on November 10th of 2015. It fits right along with the genres Hoover is very well known for: contemporary romance and young...

Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars

Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars

Ashley Park
February 24, 2022

Celebrating the tenth-year anniversary of its release in January of 2022, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars has been nothing short of a success renowned by readers for a decade. The novel, which mainly...

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Omicron and How FCPS is Working Through It

Ashley Park
February 15, 2022

When the county originally wrapped things up and let winter break commence, it was probably safe to say that very few anticipated another large COVID-19 outbreak. The world was hit with another COVID variant,...

To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Movie Vs. Book Comparison

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: Movie Vs. Book Comparison

Ashley Park
January 18, 2022

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the first book in a trilogy of young adult romance novels written by Jenny Han and  published in 2014. In August of 2018, it was adapted into a Netflix film and...

Book Review: It Ends With Us

Book Review: It Ends With Us

Ashley Park
November 23, 2021

It Ends With Us is a romance and contemporary novel published by Colleen Hoover in 2016 that continues to dominate the young adult market. The story follows a 23-year old woman named Lily Bloom, living...

CVHS's Partial Return To Norms; Life During COVID

CVHS’s Partial Return To Norms; Life During COVID

Ashley Park
November 9, 2021

As the first quarter of the 2021-2022 school year comes to an end, a majority of the student body here at Centreville High School could probably agree with the fact that the school experience so far has...

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Coldplay & BTS’ Collaboration, Its Making and Success

Ashley Park
October 21, 2021

On September 24, 2021, London-born band Coldplay and South Korean boy group BTS released their collaboration single “My Universe” on various music platforms. The music video for this song premiered...

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Book Review: They Both Die at the End

Ashley Park
September 29, 2021

Adam Silvera’s They Both Die at the End is a realistic fiction novel that, although was released on September 5, 2017, went viral on TikTok, a popular social media platform, in recent months. The story...

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