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Turning the Pages on Decades of Reporting
Turning the Pages on Decades of Reporting
Katie Makely, Julie Snyder, and Emma Sullivan November 4, 2024

After weeks of searching through Hi’s Eye archives, rummaging through several yearbooks, and joining Facebook reunion groups, we have cultivated a scrapbook of what came out to be some of the notable events during WHS’ journalism history. Through...

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Editor’s Letter
Tage Mehta, Editor-in-Chief and Section Editor • April 22, 2024

Dear Readers, It is generally understood that we are constantly changing—our brain building and destroying neural pathways, cells dividing and dying every second. So I begin to wonder at a fundamental level, if the self is always changing, how do we...

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The Psychology of Birth Order: Unraveling the Stereotypes
Nicole Braterman, Ava DeSena, and Charlie Jeckell April 22, 2024

If you have a sibling, you have probably heard of the stereotypes surrounding birth order. Maybe as the oldest, you feel that your parents are the hardest on you, and your younger siblings can get away with everything. If you’re the youngest, maybe...

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Nuclear norms to diverse households: The evolution of family structures
Amelia Katz, Tage Mehta, and Annie Reilly April 22, 2024

Since the beginning of the 20th and 21st centuries, the idea of what a family should look like has drastically changed. Families are no longer structured like carbon-copy versions of each other; a white family consisting of a mom, dad, biological son...

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Career vs. Family: Why Mothers Shouldn’t Feel Like They Have to Choose
Elizabeth Faragi and Gianna Puglisi April 20, 2024

Mothers often play a vital role in the family unit. They are the selfless part who will do just about anything for their children and offer endless love and support. Many of them cook, clean, drive their kids to after school activities and plan full family...

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Generational Trauma: The Effect of Trauma Across Families
Elizabeth Faragi and Darcy Scheiner April 20, 2024

Generational trauma, a recent discovery in psychology, is defined as “the trauma that extends from one generation to the next,” according to health.com. This diagnosis is relatively new, as it only affects specific groups of people and has been under...

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From the Editor
Elizabeth Faragi, Social Media Manager (Hi's Eye) Editor-in-Chief and Section Editor (Optic) • February 15, 2024

Dear Readers, Perspective (noun): the ability to consider things in relation to one another. interpreting the world through the lens of others. allowing you to open your heart and mind. Something only a few can understand. One of the first essays...

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How Rose-Colored Lenses Shape Reality: Navigating Optimism, Denial and the Balance for Mental Well-Being
Elizabeth Faragi and Darcy Scheiner February 15, 2024

The sayings “ignorance is bliss” and “knowledge is power” represent the dilemma of whether to live in a positive, unrealistic world, or to live in reality, which includes some negativity. The perspective of optimism, known as “seeing the world...

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Summer Issue 2024