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A Day in the Life

Collected by: George Washington High School

Archived since: Nov, 2008

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The documents archived in this collection represent websites we access routinely in our daily life or websites which have captured information that shows what we do on a day to day basis.

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Title: omg! Celebrity News

URL: http://omg.yahoo.com/

Description: This is a yahoo site with all the latest in celebrity gossip!

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Title: miniclip.com

URL: http://miniclip.com/

Description: miniclip.com is a free game website. They have diffent types of games that you can play alone or with friends.

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Title: Yahoo! Answers

URL: http://answers.yahoo.com/

Description: This is a place where you can ask questions on the interent and other people will answer them. Sometimes you get good answers, and sometimes you get stupid ones.

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Title: Where's George?

URL: http://www.wheresgeorge.com/wrapper.php?page=topstates

Description: This website is designed so that people can track how far money travels. The site is named for George Washingotn on the $1 bill. On the site you enter the serial number of a bill and it will track the bill's location everytime someone enters that serial number.

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Title: West Virginia University

URL: http://www.wvu.edu/

Description: West Virginia University is the largest school in the state. Many students from GW attend WVU following high school graduation. Also, attending WVU football games is a popular weekend activity for many students in our area.

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Title: WalMart

URL: http://walmart.com/

Description: WalMart is a big store that sells everything. It is open 24-hours a day, and during Homecoming week students go there really late at night to get decorations and things for school.

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Title: WV Apply

URL: http://www.wvapply.com/

Description: This site has lots of good information on the colleges in the state of West Virginia. Students can use this site to explore their options.

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Title: WSAZ News Channel 3

URL: http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/

Description: WSAZ is one of our local news networks. They are affiliated with the NBC network. This station covers news in Charleston as well as the Tri-State (WV, OH, and KY) area.

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Title: WCHS Fugitive Files

URL: http://wchstv.com/newsroom/fugitivefiles/

Description: One of the local news stations does a segment called the Fugitive Files. Each time on the fugitive files, the news people do profiles of different criminals who are on the loose. They also encourage viewers to call in with any tips they might have to help catch the criminals.

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Title: Vicro

URL: http://virco.com/

Description: This is the company that made the desks in our school. The desks are little tables with separate chairs. They are hard to move around and uncomfortable.

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Title: Vera Bradley

URL: http://www.verabradley.com/Site/Home.aspx

Description: Many girls at school enjoy carrying Vera Bradley purses and other accessories.

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Title: Useless Facts

URL: http://www.pmbc.com/fact.html

Description: This list of "useless" facts is interesting to read. It is updated pretty regularly and new facts are added.

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Title: USA Today

URL: http://www.usatoday.com/

Description: USA Today is a national newspaper. The articles in this paper are easy to read and cover news on the national level as well as special interest stories from around the country.

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Title: The Weather Website

URL: http://www.walmart.com/

Description: The weather channel website is very useful in my day to day life. This website lets me know what the weather is going to be in the next week. It is a great website for weather related information.

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Title: The Weather Channel Website

URL: http://www.weather.com/?from=globalnav

Description: This website is very helpful to me because it lets me know what the weather forecast is going to be for future days. If there is a chance of severe weather, I can just conveniently log on to this site and find out. This website features weather maps, beach forecasts, flight cancellations, and traffic reports.

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Title: The Times West Virginian

URL: http://www.timeswv.com/local/local_story_275005710.html

Description: This is the newspaper in Fairmont, WV a town located about two hours north of Charleston.

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Title: The College Board

URL: http://www.collegeboard.com/

Description: The College Board is responsible for a lot of the tests we have to take in school. On this website you can register for the SAT and find information about how to get ready for the test. The College Board is also in charge of AP tests, and you can find information about those tests here, too.

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Title: The Big Ten

URL: http://bigten.cstv.com/

Description: This is the homepage for the Big Ten athletic conference. Even though the name is the Big Ten, there are actually eleven schools in this conference: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, and Wisconsin

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Title: The Apple iPhone

URL: http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Description: The iPhone is the best phone. You can use it as an iPod as well as as a phone. Also you can download lots of cool apps that are fun to play with and useful too.

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Title: The ACT

URL: http://www.actstudent.org/

Description: This is the website used for registering for the ACT college admissions test. The site also has lots of other helpful information for students including how to prepare for the test and how to plan for your future.

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Title: Tay Zonday

URL: http://tayzonday.com/

Description: Tay Zonday is a youtube celebrity. He has lots of videos on youtube and has won many awards for his performances.

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Title: Spark Notes

URL: http://www.sparknotes.com/

Description: Spark Notes has summaries and other helpful information for a lot of the books we read at school. Teachers get mad if we only read the spark notes, but some kids do that anyway.

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Title: Remington

URL: http://remington.com/

Description: Remington is America's oldest gunmaker. I use this kind of gun when I go hunting with my dad and uncle.

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Title: Random Facts

URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/

Description: This is a great list of random facts. I don't know if all of these are true, but the information is certainly interesting.

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Title: Ralph Lauren Polo

URL: http://www.ralphlauren.com/home/index.jsp?camp=AVEA_SEARCH_YAHOO_BroadPoloBrandBrand

Description: Lots of people at school like to wear polo clothes. They have a lot of clothes for guys and girls, and are best known for their shirts.

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Title: Photobucket

URL: http://photobucket.com/

Description: Photobucket is a site I use to organize my pictures and to share them with my friends. You can use the site to make different slideshows and do other cool things with your pictures.

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Title: PacSun

URL: http://pacsun.com/

Description: PacSun is a store in our mall. They sell clothes and shoes, and lots of students at GW shop there.

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Title: Nike

URL: http://www.nike.com/

Description: Nike is a popular brand for shoes and other athletic gear.

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Title: Nickjr.com

URL: http://www.nickjr.com/

Description: Nick Jr. is the little kids portion of Nickelodeon. Most kids at school grew up watching Nick Jr. and because of this lots of inside jokes and silly comments made at school relate to the content of this tv station.

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Title: New Grounds

URL: http://newgrounds.com/

Description: This is a site I like to visit after school to play games and watch movies.

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Title: MTV

URL: http://www.mtv.com/

Description: This is the site for MTV. Originially MTV was Music Television and showed lots of music videos. Now it is mostly real tv shows. Some popular shows on MTV are The Hills, True Life, and Real World

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Title: Mr. Lilley!

URL: http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us/staff/lilleyk/

Description: This is the section of our school page dedicated to our awesome counselor, Mr. Lilley.

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Title: Lessing-Gymnasiums

URL: http://www.sn.schule.de/~lessing/hp/index.html

Description: This is the webpage for my home school in Germany. I am in the United States this year as a foreign exchange student.

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Title: Laurell K. Hamilton

URL: http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/

Description: Laurell K. Hamilton is one of my favorite writers. She writes books about vampires.

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Title: Kroger

URL: http://kroger.com/

Description: Kroger is the major grocery store in our area. Some students from school work at the store as bag boys and cashiers.

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Title: Juicy Couture

URL: http://www.juicycouture.com/

Description: Juicy Couture, a brand of clothing that makes shoes, jewelry, handbags, etc. is one of my favorite brands for accessories. I frequently visit this website to view their latest trendy fashions. I love everything this site has to offer.

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Subject:   Entertainment

Title: John McCain

URL: http://www.johnmccain.com/splash110408.htm

Description: John McCain ran for president in 2008 against Barack Obama. In the 2008 election, WV went for McCain.

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Title: Intajuice

URL: http://intajuice.com/

Description: Intajuice is a chain of stores that sell smoothies and other drinks. Randy Moss who plays for the New England Patriots owns Intajuice, and he is from this area. Students at GW like to go to intajuice in downtown Charleston if they have free time during the school day.

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Title: Holt Reinhart Winston

URL: http://go.hrw.com/

Description: This is one of the websites for our English book.

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Title: Hollister

URL: http://hollister.com/

Description: We have a Hollister store in our mall. Lots of students shop there.

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Title: Google

URL: http://www.google.com/

Description: Google is a popular search engine. My favorite part about google is that on different holidays and for special events the google logo changes to represent that event!

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Title: Global Grind - Beyonce

URL: http://globalgrind.com/source/64.90.166.18/193659/beyonce-offers-to-sing-for-barack-on-inauguration-day

Description: This portion of global grind talks about Beyonce offering to sing for Barack Obama's inauguration.

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Title: Global Grind

URL: http://globalgrind.com/

Description: Global Grind is the world according to hip hop. This site has sections on music, entertainment, culture, gossip, news & politics, and careers.

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Title: Glencoe

URL: http://Glencoe.com/

Description: Glencoe is a textbook publisher. They publish several of the books we use at school, like Health.

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Title: George Washington High School

URL: http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us/

Description: This is our school website. We have a special class at school dedicated to updating and maintaining the website.

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Title: GWHS Wikipedia

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_High_School_(Charleston,_West_Virginia)

Description: This is the wikipedia page for our school. Oftentime students edit our page to include their own contributions to the school.

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Title: Foot Locker

URL: http://www.footlocker.com/

Description: Foot Locker is one of the shoe stores in our mall. It is a good place to buy sports shoes, especially for basketball.

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Title: Famous vh1 Friends

URL: http://www.famousvh1friends.com/

Description: This is a place where you can go to see information about and pictures of all of the people who are on reality shows on vh1.

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Title: Facebook

URL: http://facebook.com/

Description: Facebook is a site that I use to communicate with my friends. You can use facebook to send messages, post pictures, and all kinds of other stuff. Lots of people at school have facebook profiles and use the site regularly.

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Title: Etnies

URL: http://etnies.com/footwear/

Description: Etnies is a popular brand of shoe. Lots of skaters wear these shoes.

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Title: Edline

URL: http://www.edline.com/

Description: Edline is a site our school uses to help students keep track of grades. Teachers can also use edline to post assignments for students.

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Title: eBay

URL: http://www.ebay.com/

Description: eBay is an online auction house. I have used this site to find good prices on electronics and clothing.

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Title: Eastbay

URL: http://www.eastbay.com/

Description: Eastbay is a sporting goods company. You can order whatever you need from the website or the catalog.

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Title: ESPN.com

URL: http://espn.go.com/

Description: ESPN covers all kinds of sports. The website has up-to-date information on scores, trades, and anything else going on in the wide world of sports.

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Title: Duncan Racing

URL: http://duncanracing.com/home.phtml

Description: Duncan Racing sells and promotes different ATV products.

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Title: Dogpile

URL: http://www.dogpile.com/

Description: Dogpile is a great research tool. According to its website, "Dogpile puts the power all the leading search engines – Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, and Ask – together in one search box to deliver the best combined results. The process is more efficient and yields more relevant results." I find that it is a great way to find answers when I need them.

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Title: Dicks Sporting Goods

URL: http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/home/index.jsp

Description: Dicks Sporting Goods is the largest sports store in our area. They carry a wide variety of sporting goods and clothing for all kinds of sports including: golf, hunting, and fishing.

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Title: Dell.com

URL: http://dell.com/

Description: GW uses Dell computers in most of our computer labs. They make and sell desktop and laptop computers.

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Title: Coke

URL: http://coca-cola.com/

Description: This is the homepage for coke. Before this year our school used to sell coke products in the vending machines. This year the school board made a rule against selling soda at school, so we don't have coke anymore.

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Title: CMT

URL: http://www.cmt.com/

Description: Country Music Television. This tv station plays music videos and shows other funny tv programs.

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Title: Clay Golden Delicious Festival

URL: http://www.claygoldendeliciousfestival.com/

Description: The Clay Golden Delicious Festival is a local festival to celebrate the state fruit, the golden delicious apple. The festival takes place in September of every year, and there are lots of different things to do at the festival.

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Title: Channel 1

URL: http://www.channel1.com/

Description: Everyday after morning announcments our school shows Channel 1 a news program geared towards teenagers. Lots of the homerooms don't pay much attention to the program, but sometimes the stories are interesting.

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Title: Cabelas

URL: http://www.cabelas.com/home.jsp;jsessionid=5HNQDWWNRSS5DLAQBBJCCOFMCAEFGIWE?_requestid=56545

Description: Cabellas is my favorite store for hunting and fishing stuff. They have an actual store near Wheeling, WV which is a really cool place to visit.

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Title: CNN.com ShowBiz

URL: http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/

Description: This section of the CNN website has information on the latest in entertainment. From stories about American Idol to popular movies, you can find lots of information here.

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Title: Break.com

URL: http://www.break.com/

Description: This site has free videos, pictures, and comedy comedy for guys. This is one of the places I go online when I'm looking for distractions.

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Title: Botticelli

URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/botticelli/

Description: Here are some paintings by one of my favorite artists. We learned about the Renaissance in history class.

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Title: Billboard: Top 100 Songs

URL: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/index.jsp

Description: On this website, you can find the top ranked songs, albums, artisits, etc. in America, listed in numerical ranking. I use this website whenever I'm looking for new songs to download to my Ipod. I must say that it is very helpful when it comes to my music selection.

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Title: Bebe

URL: http://www.bebe.com/gp/home.html

Description: Bebe is a brand that is popular with girls at my school. They make cute t-shirts and other clothes that girls really like.

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Title: Barack Obama

URL: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog

Description: This is the web site for Barack Obama. He started the site during his 2008 campaign for president, it was a really useful tool for communicating with voters.

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Title: Apple.com

URL: http://www.apple.com/

Description: Apple is a company that makes Mac computers, the iPhone, and the iPod along with other iPod accessories. Lots of students at school have iPods and like to listen to their own music whenever they can.

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Title: American Eagle

URL: http://www.ae.com/

Description: This is the website for American Eagle. We have an AE store in our mall, but you can also use the website to shop online. AE is a brand that appeals to a wide variety of students at GW.

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Title: Addicting Games

URL: http://addictinggames.com/

Description: Addicting Games is a great website if you don't want to do your work in class. They have all kinds of games that you can play on the computer, and it makes a great procrastination tool.

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Title: Abercrombie & Fitch

URL: http://www.abercrombieandfitch.com/

Description: A&F is one of the places I like to shop. The clothes are kind of expensive, but I really like them.

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Title: ABC News

URL: http://abcnews.go.com/

Description: The homepage for ABC network news. This is one of the major ways I get my information about what is going on in the world.

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Title: 8notes

URL: http://8notes.com/

Description: This site has free sheet music and tabs for guitars and other instruments. It is a great place to go if you want to learn a new song and already know how to play the instrument.

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