![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)
![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
Growing up, I watched all of the iconic Disney films: “Pinocchio,” “Snow White,” “Mulan,” etc., but among the many films I watched, “The Lion King” has always been a favorite Disney film for me. I was so invested in the characters, that the movie always brought me to tears as I watched one brother betray the other for power. What could have made these brothers enemies ‘til death?
On June 15, 1994, “The Lion King” was released, telling a tale of a young lion, Simba, who was banished from his home after a tragic event that involved the death of his father, Mufasa. The movie follows Simba as he travels away from home as well as his return to his friends Timon and Pumba. Simba had hoped to be accepted back into his pride so he traveled back home only to learn the shocking truth that his father’s death involves his mischievous Uncle Scar. 30 years later, the audience is now given the story of how two brothers’ love turns into hate in the new movie “Mufasa: The Lion King.”
This movie was really special, especially because three months prior to the start of filming the voice actor of Mufasa in the original Lion King, James Earl Jones, died and they dedicated “Mufasa: The Lion King” to him to show appreciation. In my opinion, the original Lion King was one of the greatest Disney animated films of all time. It was filled to the brim with friendship, betrayal, family and romance, so I was expecting nothing less with the new live action prequel, Mufasa. The original Lion King features Scar killing his brother Mufasa and blaming it on his nephew. We were not given much of the reason why Scar was so jealous of his brother and why he felt so entitled to be the king, but after watching Mufasa I began to realize why and how the brothers ended up in the positions they were in at the beginning of the original Lion King.
Over four years ago, a live action remake of “The Lion King” was released that retold the same story from 1994. In the new prequel, Mufasa, it was interesting to see how Mufasa (voiced by Aaron Pierre) and Scar (voiced by Kelvin Harrison Jr.) met and traveled together to Milele, a mythical land of freedom from death and famine for all animals. Going into this movie, I knew what happened to these two brothers which allowed me to closely follow what they were doing, how they would speak, their mannerisms and their morals. One brother wants to rule and look down on the other animals while the other loves and cares about the other animals and marvels at the beauty of nature.
What I liked about this movie was that it was a story of one of the greatest kings that the wise baboon Rafiki told to Kiara, Simba’s child. This movie included interludes that featured Kiara and her newly discovered “Uncles” Timon and Pumba. Kiara and her Uncle’s points of view were interesting to see because they reminded me of the ultimate outcome of the brothers’ story everytime it cut to them. I loved getting to see the brothers actually work together as family for once to fight against the main enemy, Kiros an albino lion. “Mufasa: The Lion King” not only has a great storyline yet again filled with romance between Mufasa and Sarabi, but it also has a great soundtrack. The soundtrack was so good that before even watching the movie, I was listening to all the songs.
Overall this movie was amazing. It had me feeling like I was a little kid again singing along to all of the songs. I loved understanding why and how the brothers turned out the way they did— why Scar became Scar and how Mufasa became King over his brother. I would recommend this movie for everyone because I can promise all your little childhood memories will come flooding back. I give this movie five out of five stars!
