Homestead High School's student newspaper

The Epitaph

Homestead High School's student newspaper

The Epitaph

Homestead High School's student newspaper

The Epitaph

The Impatient Patient: Video game addiction more than a virtual reality

By Renee Wang January 19, 2018

Video game addiction now has a place on the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases draft for 2018. For now, it falls under the very general umbrella term of behavioral and...

The Hart of the Matter: Marching towards progress

The Hart of the Matter: Marching towards progress

By Lily Hartenstein January 17, 2018

It has been almost 365 days into the Trump presidency, and it would be a fair statement to summarize the previous year as absurd and disheartening. However, it is also almost the one-year anniversary...

The Ripple Effect: Being frank about our lingua franca

By Aishwarya Jayadeep January 10, 2018

What language do you speak? I like to say that at most, I’m bilingual-and-a-half, although it depends on whether my third grade language arts class, my Spanish teacher or my mother is passing the...

Leone’s Chronicle: The feud between religious rights and the LGBT community

By Tanner Leone January 8, 2018

The Supreme Court began hearing the arguments for the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission on Dec. 5. The lawsuit began after Jack Phillips, a devout Christian, declined to create...

The Impatient Patient: Why TV shows catered to children have the responsibility of representation

By Renee Wang January 5, 2018

Is television the glue of American society? Perhaps, seeing as we devote five hours daily to a screen, according to the New York Times. For children between the ages eight to 18, a eerily similar figure...

Leone’s Chronicle: Just say Merry Christmas

By Tanner Leone December 9, 2017

As the Christmas season rolls around, it’s pretty obvious the spirit of the holidays has undergone change over the last few years. Just a few years ago, December was marked with beautiful Starbucks cups,...

Illustration by Lily Hartenstein

The Hart of the Matter: Gender disparity in ADHD diagnosis and treatment

By Lily Hartenstein December 6, 2017

About 6 million children in America are diagnosed with ADHD, according the Center of Disease Control in 2015. Yet as diagnoses, awareness and research grow, an entire group of affected individuals is neglected...

Leone’s Chronicle: Feminists should be pro-gun

By Tanner Leone November 29, 2017

It’s basic biology for men to be physically stronger than women. Studies show that muscle mass in men is generally 40 percent more than the amount of muscle mass in women. Even well-trained female fighters...

The Hart of the Matter: The Boyfriend Loophole

By Lily Hartenstein November 29, 2017

With a mass shooting occurring almost every day in America, it’s not a reach to say that gun control in this country is a hole-ridden disaster. One such pitfall has been coined the “Boyfriend Loophole,”...

The Ripple Effect: The Zimbabwean media’s happily-ever-after?

By Aishwarya Jayadeep November 29, 2017

It’s like the prologue to a fairy tale. The man who had been involved in Zimbabwean politics since the country’s independence and been as polarizing in his nation as he’s been a symbol of...

The Denome’s Advocate: A picture speaks a thousand words less than a recording

By Thomas Denome November 20, 2017

Last week, at a journalism convention in Dallas, I heard in a seminar that a picture speaks a thousand words, but a long article should not necessarily be associated with good writing. At some point over...

The Ripple Effect: Flattery, foreign relations and forbidden shrimp

By Aishwarya Jayadeep November 15, 2017

Out of all the coverage of Donald Trump’s recent trip to Asia, I didn’t expect to read stories about the president eating something controversial. No, he didn’t reject a traditional meal cooked...

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