The Rocket
Volume 5, Issue 6
April, 2013
Volcanology by Levi Thieme
“PR JH Keyboarding
bringing you the news”
Inside This Issue
Volcanology
Easter
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Nike
The Winchester
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April Fools
Track and Field
Apple
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A Volcanologist is a
very interesting carrier if
you chose to be one.
What a Volcanologist
does is study volcanoes.
Various things a Volcanologist does depends on
your degree and what
you are chosen to do. If
you want to work by
yourself you need to
have a PhD or a Masters
degree. If you chose to
work as an assistant you
can go with a Bachelors
Degree. The difference
between working by
yourself and being an
assistant is the pay. You
have a choice of working
24 hours if you want.
Volcanology is the most
dangerous job in the
world you get up close
and personal with lava
and volcanoes. The point
of the job is actually to
warn people if a volcano
is going to erupt or not.
Volcanologists don’t
study earthquakes but
they play a big part in
volcanoes. If a tectonic
plate moves under a volcano it can totally
change how the volcano
acts. It can make the volcano erupt abruptly or
unexpectedly.
Easter By Steve Bautista and KC Clough
People in Computers
Class!
Beau Glynn
Sara Weinke
Maranda Drake
Levi Thieme
Michael Van Pelt
Riley Lankford
Chris Weinke
Issac Rigby
Abby Rigby
Marrisa Sutherland
Steve Bautista
Anthony Moore
KC Watson
Editor, Dorian Watson
Mrs. King
TA, Jessica Harp
Easter Sunday is
a happy day for Christians because they believe that this is the day
that Jesus Christ rose
from the dead after his
death. They believe that
death is not the end of
everything. There are
many customs associated
with Easter which involve eggs. For this reason, Easter used to be
known as Egg Sunday.
For the last 200 years in
Britain the custom of
giving children chocolate
eggs has been popular,
while in Europe and
America, parents hide
chocolate eggs in the
garden for the children to
find. In many countries,
children are given hard
boiled eggs; it’s a custom for children to decorate these by painting or
dying them. Eggs were
always thought to be
special even before Jesus
was born. It is because
they are associated with
new life when the chick
breaks from the egg. After Jesus had risen from
the dead, it was easy to
think of eggs as a sign of
new life. So eggs have
always been a part of the
celebration of Easter.
The Easter Bunny we
know today originates in
Germany; it was a tradition for Christians dating
back, all the way to the
1500s. Children believed
that a magic bunny
would come by at night
and leave them a basket
full of colored eggs at
Easter-time if they were
well behaved. So it was
almost like motivation
for the kids to behave.
And then later on Pennsylvania Dutch settlers
brought these great traditions to America in the
1700s.
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Nike byRiley and Beau
Mary Elizabeth and a twin brother
that died in an elevator at age
two. He met Barbara Young, the
woman he would marry, while in
high school, in Medford. Phil
knight’s education came from a
Master of Business administration, standford university and
Bachelor of Arts, science at University of Oregon. He is a chairman of Nike and a co-founder of
it. Nike is a business that makes
sports shoes. Until 1980 Nike was
a small business that very few
knew about. 1980 was the beginning of a new sports shoe that
went public. In 1984 they signed
a contract with Michael Jordan
It was once known as
Blue Ribbon that started on
January 25, of 1964. It was
founded by Bill Bowerman and
Phil Knight. Its name comes
from the Greek goddess Nike,
meaning victory. It became
Nike Inc. on May 30th 1978. It’s
known for it trademarks “Just
Do It” and the “Swoosh” logo.
Bill Bowerman was born February 19, 1911 and was born in
Portland Oregon. His father was
former governor of Oregon, Jay
Bowerman. His mother had
grown up in fossil, Oregon. In
1913 his parents divorced. He
had two older siblings, Dan,
which followed in 1985 with a new
shoe, Air Jordan. Nikes shoe was
once not allowed on the basketball
court because it didn’t meet the
leagues dress code. This didn’t last
long though. The league saw that it
was a new style and met the public’s eye. I the next year there was a
growth of 1 billion dollars.
The Winchester House by Sara and Chris
At the séance, the medium
told her that the she was to sell her
property in New Haven and move
towards the setting sun, or west.
She would be guided by her husband and when she found her new
home she would recognize it.
“You must start a new life,” said
the medium, “and build a home for
yourself and for the spirits that
have fallen from this terrible
weapon too. You can never stop
building the house. If you keep
building you will live, if you stop
you will die.”
Shortly after, Sarah sold
her home and moved to California.
She didn’t stop till she reached
Santa Clara Valley in 1884. There
she bought a six room home that
was still under construction. She
had to convince the owner to sell
his house and the 162 acres along
with it. She discarded the previous
plans for the home and started
building anything she wished. She
chose local workers and craftsmen,
for the next 36 years they would
be building, rebuilding, altering,
changing, constructing, and demolishing one part of the Winchester home after another. She
kept her 22 carpenters at work year
round, 24 hours each day. Their
hammers and saws could be heard
at all hours of the night. Her plans
were often chaotic. If something
didn’t work they would just build
a room over the existing one. The
house was quickly growing and
expanding, Sarah claimed to have
no master plan for the estate. Sarah
liked using the number “13” while
building. Nearly all the building
had 13 panes of glass, and staircases with 13 steps, except for one
with 42 steps. By 1906, the house
reached 7 stories tall. It had chimneys all over the place most served
no purpose, 25 rooms, and two
mirrors because Sarah believed
ghosts were afraid of their own
reflection. (continued on page 3)
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The Winchester House Continued
After one of Sarah’s séances on
night she went up to her bedroom
to sleep and never awoke the following day. She died at the age of
83. She left all of her possessions
to her niece, Frances Marriot,
who had been handling Sarah’s
affairs for some time. It was said
that Sarah had hidden a safe containing a fortune in jewelry and a
solid-gold dinner set she used to
entertain her guests with was hidden somewhere in the estate.
This ‘treasure’ was never found.
Her relatives only found was old
fish lines, newspaper clippings
about her daughter and husband, a
lock of baby’s’ hair and a suit of
woolen underwear.
found.
Today, the house that
Sarah Winchester built is a California Historic Landmark, and is
registered with the National Park
Service as “a large, odd dwelling
with an unknown number of
rooms”. Nobody ever knows how
many rooms there are in this
WEIRD estate.
No solid-gold plates were ever
April Fools by Maranda and Taylor
Oh, my gosh! I can’t believe that you forgot your best
friend’s birthday again! April
Fools! April fools day is a day
where you play pranks on random
people. Although, it could be anybody that you pull these playful
pranks on, it almost always ends
up being a loved one. Whether that
means family or friends! Well, nobody really knows when April
Fools Day started, but the most
popular theory is that April Fools
Day started in France in the
1500’s. April Fools Day traveled
the world, and many people in rural areas continued to celebrate the
New Year in the spring. These
country dwellers became known as
"April foolers," this is how the
story goes. Although, there aren’t
many different ways that people
around the world celebrate Aprils
fools day, there are different things
that you could do. One way that
you could prank someone is by
switching either the contents of a
container or changing the labels on
the bottles. That way when they go
to eat or use the object(s) in the
container they would end up using
the wrong thing. Another way that
you prank someone is you could
put a motor in the toilet paper roll.
Then, when someone goes to use
the toilet paper, for whatever reason, and they try to tear it off, the
motor would kick in and then toilet
paper would all of the sudden go
everywhere! Lastly, this is an unusual way that you could prank
someone. First, get a bunch of
your friends together and get them
in on the “secret” that you are
“moving” to a new town. Make up
a random reason for it. For example, you could say that your mom
is getting a promotion in her job
and you have to move because of
it. Then, splash water on your
guys’ eyes and that will make
them look red as if you had been
crying. Then drop subtle hints and
then when they notice tell them
you’re moving. Then you say
April fools after you’ve kept it going for a little while and…ECT…
Track and Field By Abby and Marissa
The history of Track and
field traces back to the earliest of
times. People have been walking,
running, and throwing since the
beginning of man. Track and field
is a competitive sport consisting of
mainly running, jumping, and
throwing. Track and field events
are normally individual sports,
with the exception of the relay.
Track and field events are separated into three categories: track,
field, and combined events. Track
events involve running for certain
distances, and in the case of hurdling and steeplechase events, obstacles may be placed on the track.
There are also relay races where
teams of athletes run and pass a
baton to their team member. The
sport of track and field has its
roots in human prehistory. Track
and field-style events are among
the oldest of all sporting competitions, as running, jumping and
throwing are natural forms of the
human expression. The first recorded Track and Field games
were at the Ancient Olympic
Games. At first, the Games only
had one event; the stade race,
which was between 590 and 790
feet long. Later on, the diaulos,
the dolichos, and the hoplitodromos races were added. It wasn’t
until the eighteen hundreds that
Track and field began to take its
roots. Elementary schools and
Universities began to include Track and Field activities. It
began to modernize around the
time of the first modern day Olympic Games in 1896. The modern
events take place in a 400 meter
track. Track and Field history has
seen a growth involving running
surfaces, running shoes, and types
of races. The sport continues to
grow and is highlighted by the runners in the Olympics every 4
years.
The Bite in the Apple by Beau
This is a repot about a company
that has become very popular, not
only in our own country, but others as well. Apple Company’s history is interesting and important.b
Apple was founded by two people,
known as Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak. These two men had a
common idea, to build a device
that mankind could use for instant
messaging on a machine other than
a phone. So, they came up with the
idea of a computer. A monitor that
can display things such as instant
messages, e-mail, and surf the
internet. Steven Paul Jobs was the
co-CEO of Apple products. He
was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955. His
mother was named Joanne Carole
Steve went to school like most
other kids and made friends with a
man named, Bill Fernandez. Bill
introduced Steve to an older computer whiz named Steve Wozniak,
known as Woz. In 1969, Woz and
Fernandez started to build a small
computer board they named the
Cream Soda Computer. Steven
Graduated High School and went
to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but he dropped out. He and
Woz worked together later on to
build the Apple computer. Steve
died of Metastatic Insulinoma. Today, Apple companies are still run
by Steve Wozniak. Apple’s headquarters can be found at Apple
campus, 1 Infinite Loop, in Cupertino, California. These days, Woz,
the now CEO, still comes up with
these brilliant ideas that once influenced Steve Jobs.