White Bear Lake Area High School

After being asked the question, “Where do you see yourself in 10 years”, Colleen Mackey responded by saying “Hopefully retired and back in my hometown of White Bear Lake where I grew up”. Colleen sat smiling, while she talked about her childhood and teenage years spent in White Bear Lake. Colleen is a successful woman who spends her days running a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center and caring for people who are dealing with an addiction or a mental issue. Colleen has had many twists and turns in her life and many people walk in and out of her life, but she strongly believes that everything in her life has happened for a reason. Colleen did not plan her current career path. She went to school and got her bachelor degree in psychology but did not pursue anything with it. After having children, she went back to school for her nursing degree and became a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor. Colleen’s father had a big impact on her career and her life. Unfortunately, her father passed away but she constantly is…

On September 25, 2015, I returned to my hometown of Hugo, Minnesota to interview a teacher of the White Bear Lake Area School District, Mrs. Laura Bege. I know Mrs. Bege from volunteering in her class twice a week for a semester during my junior year of high school. She has become a person I admire, and would like to follow in her footsteps. I had the privilege to sit down and listen to her story about being a teacher. If you were to ask Mrs. Bege why she wanted to be a teacher, she would tell…

Sarah Forestell sat in a student’s desk in her classroom after school joking with the soccer players that she coaches as if they were old friends. It’s her outgoing personality and her love for kids that help her to form such close bonds with her students. However, it’s her love for Spanish that has put her in the position she’s in today. “I always knew I was interested in Spanish, but I didn’t know I wanted to be a teacher,” she said, going on to explain that it wasn’t until after she had a…

Lawrence Valley. Others tribes of the Iroquoian family lived in two areas in the present southern states, one in the eastern Carolinas, and the other partly in the western Carolinas, and parts of the States of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Virginias. The Hurons or Wyandot tribe lived about Lake Simcoe and the St. Lawrence; the Tiononates, west of Lake Ontario and south of the Hurons and in New York; the Erie nation south of Lake Erie; the Canastogas (or Susquehannocks) and their…

the Himalayan foothills. It is well-known for its distinctive black tea that is grown on plantations doting the surrounding slope. The town’s backdrop is Mt. Kanchenjunga, among the world’s highest peaks. The region’s most famous monastery is Yiga Choling Gompa. You can see impressive old murals and it’s home to some 30 monks of the Gelugpa school. The monastery was built in 1850 and enshrines a 5m-high statue of Jampa (Maitreya or “Future Buddah”) and 300 beautifully bound Tibetan texts.…

memory begins to resurface. Recalling the painful experience as if it were happening again, he transcribes it onto paper with each agonizing keystroke. When examining Ernest Hemingway’s works compared to his life experiences, the correlation between them is obvious. Hemingway found his inspiration in the most unlikely of places: from a lake in Michigan where he spent his summers as a boy to the medical wards during World War I. However, his experiences brought him to the conclusion that…

England, France, Spain, and other countries descended on the New World to leave a lasting impression, one that can still be seen today in American culture. But of them all, England probably had the greatest effect on America. Since the time of Columbus’s discovery of the New World, Spain had been colonizing almost all the areas in the South, in what is today South America and along the South and West coast of what is now North America. They brought with them all aspects of life; language,…

(word, gesture, or object) that carries a particular meaning for the members of a group” (Eitzen pg 44). The functions of symbols are to bring individuals together into one group and to separate groups from one another. Schools use symbols in athletics as representation, these are better known as mascots. These chosen symbols are more than just words, gestures, or objects, rather they convey “the characteristics and attributes that define the institution” (Eitzen pg 45). A school’s mascot…

She chose to have her mother go through a game that she had chosen called “Alien Abduction” where the mother would be transported to an alien ship where she would be examined by doctors who would experiment on her. The mother walked into the area, Parable of the Net, and the child took over the Holodeck Maze Game controls in the area, Parable of the Mustard Seed. The mother was already angry that she had to go through the holodeck maze game and was not prepared for what her child had in store…

Tasks Persons. Celebrity marketing has become a major business. Artists, musicians, CEOs, physicians, high-profile lawyers and financiers, and other professionals draw help from celebrity marketers.4 Places. Cities, states, regions, and nations compete to attract tourists, factories, company headquarters, and new residents.5 Place marketers include economic development specialists, real estate agents, commercial banks, local business associations, and advertising and public relations…