Reader’s Digest- PDF

READER’S DIGEST

By: Sydney Kauphusman

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Food
Spaghetti and Meat Sauce………………...……pg. 1

Technology
World Wide Web……………...………………pg. 2

Music
Dear Evan Hansen……....……………………...pg. 3

Spotlight
Michael Kauphusman…………………………..pg. 4

School Events
Jr.Thespians…………………………………….pg. 5

Strange but True
Boanthropy………………………………….pg. 6

Other
Butterfly Effect……………………………….pg. 7

Narrative
No Names…………………………………..pg. 8

Humorous
Logan Paul……………………………………...pg. 9

Health
Teen Fitness…………………………………..pg. 10

Food • 1 pound ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
SPAGHETTI AND • Onions Yellow/Brown Fresh
MEAT SAUCE • 4 cloves garlic, minced
RECIPE • 1 small green bell pepper, diced
• Green Peppers
• 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1 (16 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano
• 2 teaspoons dried basil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 package of angel hair noodles
• Great Value Pure Ground Black Pepper, 3 oz
• Combine ground beef, onion, garlic, and green

pepper in a large saucepan. Cook and stir until
meat is brown and vegetables are tender. Drain
grease.
• Stir diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato
paste into the pan. Season with oregano, basil, salt,
and pepper. Simmer spaghetti sauce for 1 hour,
stirring occasionally.
• Follow directions on the back of the noodles box
• Combine sauce and meat

This recipe is meaningful to me, because this is the first
meal I had with my step family the day that they moved in.After a
stressful day of moving, my Dad decided to cook spaghetti with
meat sauce, because it is easy to make and we had all of the
ingredients.We all sat around the small table and ate. It was the
first moment of a new chapter in my life. Now we have spaghetti
every Monday and it is my favorite meal of the week.We also
have spaghetti with meat sauce on special occasions.

Technology

TECHNOLOGY

The moment the world wide

web was created, the world

changed. Everyday 320 million

people in North America use

the internet. It is used for

work, school, and for

entertainment (World Internet

Statistics).The world wide web

was created 28 years ago by

Tim Berners-Lee, a computer

scientist at the physics

laboratory CERN.Years later, share data from their

the world relies on the web. experiments. Before the web

When the web was just an was invented, the internet and

idea, Berners-Lee had no idea hypertext already existed. It

what it would become. He was mostly used by scientists,

imagined it as an open because no one knew how to

platform that would allow link one document directly to

everyone, everywhere to share another. When the world

information, access wide web was created, it made

opportunities and collaborate the internet available to

across geographic and cultural everyone, not just scientists. It

boundaries.The team at CERN also became a way for people

was shocked to see how the to express themselves.The

web was being used and the web provided an opportunity

high-profile hacks that began for many more jobs.App

to happen.The web has creation, bloggers, content

become such a big and creators, and more all rely on

common thing, that the CSI is the world wide web for their

trying to find a way to use careers.The web is a crucial

smartphones as a surveillance thing in our lives today, so it is

devices using their important for teens to be

sophisticated hacking tools. educated on the way that the

When the web was invented, it things they are using come to

was meant for scientists to be.

Music

DEAR EVAN HANSEN

Dear Evan Hansen is a musical that want it to only be them.
recently came out on Broadway starring Evan’s lies keep building and
Ben Platt and Laura Dreyfuss.This show building until he can’t take it
has a fantastic soundtrack and an anymore. In the touching
amazing cast.The storyline is brilliant. song “Words Fail”, Evan
The touching score was written by the confesses everything.The
songwriting team behind the Academy Murphy family stops talking
Award nominee Lala Land, Benj Pasek to him, and he loses the
and Justin Paul.The book was written by people who were beginning
Steven Levenson and the show now to be family to him.This is
playing in the Music Box theatre is only the basic storyline,
directed by Michael Greif.The show is there is so much more to
about a high school student named Evan this musical.This story is
Hansen. Evan has social anxiety, and he is changing lives around the
recommended to write a letter to world and I cannot express
himself every morning. One morning he how amazing this cast is.
writes a letter to himself about the girl They do such a good job of
of his dreams, Zoe Murphy.At school, portraying their characters
Connor Murphy, Zoe’s older brother, and they all have beautiful
finds the letter and puts it in his pocket. voices. If I had to give Dear
Later that day, Connor committed Evan Hansen a rating, it
suicide with the letter still in his pocket. would be ten out of five
Connor and Evan were not friends, but stars.
when his parents find the letter
addressed to Evan, they assume that
Evan and Connor were really good
friends. Evan wants to get closer to Zoe,
so he lies and makes up a story about
how he was really good friends with
Connor.Through these stories, he is
getting closer to Zoe, and in a song

called “Only Us”, they say that they don’t

want things to be about Connor
anymore, and they

Spotlight

S P OT L I G H T:
MICHAEL KAUPHUSMAN

Michael Kauphusman is decided that Baylor
a lawyer and he was where he
graduated from Baylor would attend
University in Waco, undergrad college
Texas. He was born in for four years. He
Newton, completed law
Massachusetts, but his school at Kansas
family moved around a University.To
lot for his father’s become a judge,
work. Some of the you are required to
places that he lived become a lawyer
include: Bangkok, first.As of now,
Thailand, Orem, Utah, Michael is content
Overland Park, Kansas, on being a lawyer,
Waco,Texas, Lawrence, but he plans on
Kansas, and Kansas someday becoming
City, a judge. Michael
Missouri. Growing up, believes that if you
Michael wanted to be stick to what you
a judge. It was his want to do and
dream job. As he got never give up, you
older and began to can make it in
look at colleges, he anything.

School Events

JR. THESPIANS

Jr.Thespians is an after school theatre Every year there is a Jr.Thespian
organization for sixth, seventh, and festival where all of the students in
eighth graders. It is for all students the Blue Valley school district come
interested in theatre.You get to play to one school and take workshops.
fun improv games, and starting in the The workshops are taught by
2017-2018 school year, we will be professionals and teachers in the
offering tech workshops where district. Each workshop is specialized
students are going to be able to get for one thing. For example, stage
to know and learn how to use all of combat, makeup, musical theatre
our tech equipment. It is run by a singing, dance, audition techniques,
student board called the officers. improv, and many more.You can learn
There are many different officer all about drama while still having fun!
positions, but some include: president, I have been in this club for two years
vice president, and secretary.These now, and I love it. It is something that
students plan out all of our events, you can look forward to, or
and they have fun while doing it. something fun you could do with a
Students who want to participate in group of friends. For sixth graders
the play or musical should participate who can’t do the shows, it is a good
in Jr.Thespians, because it could help way to get to know other people in
to prepare them. Even though we are different grades involved with theatre
a club, we’re also a family.Theatre and get to know our very much
brings people together and that is loved directors. Jr.Thespians is a
one thing that all of the members great way to express yourself and
love about it.We have amazing have fun!
supervisors and directors who are
very supportive of Jr.Thespians and
they are so excited to continue
sponsoring this club. Jr.Thespians is a
great way to introduce students to
theatre.

Strange One with the disorder may
begin to develop cow/wolf
STRANGE BUT TRUE like features such as hair
on the body becoming
There is a psychological disorder in coarse and fingernails and
which the sufferer believes that he toenails becoming thick
or she is a cow or ox. It is called and long.Today boanthropy
boanthropy. If a person has symptoms have largely
boanthropy, they will most likely be decreased and people with
on all fours eating grass.The most this disorder are
famous sufferer of this disorder is considered “loonies” and
King Nebuchadnezzar. He was the are most likely put in a
king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire mental hospital.
from 605 BC to 562 BC. He was Boanthropy is most
written about in the biblical Book of remembered from the
Daniel. In the book, he “was driven bible.The bible talks about
from men and did eat grass as how there were peasants
oxen”.According to the bible, he who mooed and ate grass.
lived as an animal for seven years. This is a real disorder that
Victims usually first become rarely affects people today.
vegetarians and then they begin to Another interesting
start mooing and snorting and disorder is Aboulomania.
hanging out in fields.There is This is an inability to make
another condition related to decisions.These people
boanthropy called lycanthropy. If face extremely hard
someone has lycanthropy, they challenges during their
believe that they are a cow.This is everyday life. Even the
most likely how legends of simplest decision can mess
werewolves began.You could up their whole day and can
technically refer to someone with cause them serious issues.
boanthropy as a were-cow.These This disorder is much
conditions even begin to affect their more common than a
physical state. syndrome called Mary
Hart syndrome.There
were reported cases of
people having a seizure
from hearing her voice.
These people already
suffered from seizures, but
when they hear this TV
personality’s voice, it
triggered their seizures.

Other

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

The butterfly effect is somewhat like a
ripple. It is concept that small causes
can have large effects.You may have
heard of the Mandela effect, which is
similar, but these two things are very
different.The butterfly effect also plays a
part in chaos theory. It is called the
butterfly effect, because this effect
grants the power to cause a hurricane
in China to a butterfly flapping it’s wings
in New Mexico. If that butterfly didn’t
flap its wings in that exact moment in
time, then the hurricane in China never
would have happened.Another example
is if you drop a pen. If you drop a pen, it
could drastically change future events. In
a different universe if you didn’t drop
that pen, things could be very different
in that other universe.This effect says
that forecasting the future can be nearly
impossible.The effect took flight when a
meteorology professor at MIT was
entering numbers into a system. He
rounded a .506127 to .506. He was
entering data into a computer program
simulating weather patterns.While he
left his office to get coffee, he realized
that tiny change could drastically change
the whole pattern the program
produced.This effect has a lot to do
with weather. One little thing can
change the weather drastically.The
Mandela effect is closely related to it.
This effect is when everyone believes
one thing, but it is not actually true.The
most common example is the
Berenstain Bears. Many people
remember it being spelled “Berenstein
Bears”. Crazy right?

Narrative

NO NAMES

When I was 2 years old my grandfather
was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I never
really got to know him, but I still cared
about him just as much. One fall
afternoon my grandma, grandpa, and I
were raking leaves. My grandma and I
went inside to get water, and when we
came back outside he was on the ground.
A white car stopped outside of the
house and jumped out and gave him CPR.
They were total strangers and we had
never seen them before.As the
ambulance arrived, the two men got lost
in the commotion. No names.We never
got to ask them their names or say thank
you.Those two men saved my
grandfather's life, and I don’t even know
their names.

Humorous

LOGAN PAUL

It was a normal day in reading
and people were sharing
something that makes their
day. Ms.Anderson called on
someone who mentioned
meeting someone named
Logan Paul. Right as he
mentioned that name, there
was one girl who jumped out
of her seat and began
screaming,“OH MY GOD
YOU DID WHAT?! I LOVE
LOGAN PAUL!” Everyone in
the class was shocked and
about had a heart attack. I
talked to her after class, and
she told me that she didn’t
think that it was that loud.
She then went on to tell me
all about this person named
Logan Paul, who I did not
know about.Turns out, he is a
famous YouTuber who
happened to be in Kansas this
past weekend. From now on,
everyone in this class will be
at least a little bit scared of
her. She also told me that she
watches Peppa Pig every
night.

Health

As many teens grow older,

they lose the desire to

exercise. Kids always seem

to be running around, but

when they become older,

they may become lazier. If

adults exercised as

teenagers, they are more TEEN FITNESS
likely to value and

maintain a healthy lifestyle

and stay active (healthy

children). Exercise reduces

the risk of many diseases

and health problems.

Exercise not only

increases health physically,

it also increases their

emotional state. Research

proves that exercise
affects how the teen brain people had better memory and less
encodes memories. In a age-related brain related changes than
the less-fit. If teens exercise when they
study conducted by
Oregon Health & Science are young, then as they grow older, they
University, it was found will have less brain loss. Exercise affects
the way you feel. Many people claim
that there are no
that they feel much better when they
differences in the
exercise and that it helps their mood
performance between
low-fit teens and high-fit and energy. Exercising causes the body
to produce endorphins, which help a
teens, but there were
brain differences.The brain person to feel more peaceful and happy
(kidshealth). It can also make teens feel
of the higher-fit teens
reacted as expected, but accomplished when they reach a goal.
the lower-fit brain had to Exercising now can help you age well. It
may not seem like it now, but weight-
think more for the
bearing exercise can help you prevent
answers
conditions that weakens the bones.
(cogneurosociety).
However, on tests with Overall, exercise helps teens in many
ways. It increases their physical,
elderly, the higher-fit
emotional, and mental health.