Chronicles of Guirk Mancer Spiritual enthusiast:
“My name is Mr. Guirk Mancer if you earn it you can call me MaGuirk”, said MaGuirk. Then Clancy, the young writer, looked up at MaGuirk from the desk he was sitting in front of while typing and said. “What do I have to do to call you MaGuirk, Mr. Mancer?" MaGuirk slammed his hand down on the wooden desk and when he pulled it away, Clancy, whose attention was drawn toward MaGuirk's surprising response, could see the head a steel nail deeply imbedded in the wood of the desk. "Just pull out the nail," said MaGuirk in his strange, raspy voice. Clancy outraged by the damage to his desk, reached over and grabbing the head of the nail and began twisting it free from the desk.
A few minutes earlier,
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Mancer to fill out the standard ghost writing agreement, and then he stated that he would have to at least view the material before he could give him an estimate of the cost.
“Ok”, said MaGuirk. “But I will be giving you the info for the book verbatim”.
“No can do”, said Clancy, who was starting to get irritated at MaGuirk strange sounding voice and bullish attitude. “I could not ghost write a book verbatim even for my best friend”. MaGuirk then got even more perturbed looking, but his actions were still business like. MaGuirk pulled out a substantial wad of cash at that point and tossed it in front of Clancy. “Will that get us started”, said MaGuirk as if stating a already done deal.
Clancy, although he needed the work and the money, had just boiled over at this point. He hadn't managed to pull the nail out of the desk and was just about done with this man. He jumped up, and grabbed MaGuirk, with both hands and then boomed, “Get the hell out of my office, you jerk”. I’ll take the money to repair my desk out of that cash and I won't call the cops if you leave wright now," he
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He just stared a Clancy's face for a minute, then said coolly, “that’s OK kid I got a good read on you just now you’re Ok, and you can call me MaGuirk."
Clancy, stunned by how calm this man was, released his grip on him, and sat down a little shakily.
MaGuirk reached over and casually pulled up a chair. He sat with the back of it under his folded elbows while looking steadily at Clancy, giving him a chance to regain his composure
After a minuet, Clancy reached over and took a slug of the flat energy drink that was next to his keyboard.
MaGuirk, sensing that it was OK to talk, began to give Clancy the details of what he want him to write.
After an hour and a half, Clancy, who was now enthralled in the tale that MaGuirk was verbalizing to him, was unable to hold his peace any longer and said, “this is absolutely amazing, MaGuirk, I have never heard anything like it in my life and I have read thousands of books and ghost written close to a hundred myself”.
“Thanks”, said MaGuirk, “Let’s take a break for today have some dinner on me and then I’ll begin making sure that you live through the night, my young, new
While during round today on Thomas Unit Justine P disclosed that she had been collecting sharps all day. Justine were able to pull several pieces of plastic ware (Spoon/ Fork), a stitch from her injured wound, from her bra also and a rubber band. Campus Supervisor was able to retrieve all items from her. Also Justine disclosed that she removed all the stitches from her wound and began to embed new items into her wound. Nursing was contacted for assessment.
“If you have anything to tell me, you can tell me tomorrow because I need to go to my room and have a rest now.” said Ralph.
M. [to see] Mr. Abrams folks. Mr. Abrams requested me to give his respects to our folks. They were all in good spirits and looking well. He wants a private interview with your most august brother before he leaves the state and he intends to gratify him, I believe. I had a good talk. Mr. Abrams has taken to his pipe most devotedly.
He sat on the floor and counted small electrical pieces and parts. Through all of this he had a lot of time to think about himself.
McTeague originated with the lower class and had made a name for himself by owning his dentistry and becoming a dentist. The narrator never fails to mention this numerous times in the passage as part of his identity, as he's characterized as ”a young giant, carrying his huge shock of blond hair six feet three inches from the ground.” His description of his hair instead of being mentioned atop of his head but from the ground up shows that he came from something of a lowly manner and is now a accomplished businessman. His business- a dentistry- was successful. The narrator seems to oversee the prizes he owns that show the intellectual means of McTeague, which can be seen describing his room, “The other ornaments were a small marble topped centre covered with back numbers of the “The American System of Dentistry,” a stone pug dog sitting before a little stove, and a thermometer.” After mentioning his
When the fight began at 11:38 p.m., each of the two combatants were noticeably intoxicated. In a two-hour span, Col. Steak was up to nine and a half beers, and the professor had imbibed six double Scotch whiskies.
Washington eyed him and spoke in a quavering voice. “Then... help... me... get... this... scumbag.”
"Thanks," he said, and sat down on the edge of the bed to my right. I saw Mr. Savo stare at him for a moment, then go back to his cards. "You were pretty rotten yesterday, you know," Danny Saunders said. "I'm sorry about that. " I was surprised at how happy I was to see him.
He starts to twitch a little, as he slowly sits up straight, but then he takes a deep breath and stops.
“ This trip will be good for us.” Linda claimed. “ I also forgot to tell you that today is our one year anniversary, so we should celebrate it by having a fancy dinner.”
The years immediately following the Civil War was met with very little industrial progress in the South. Between the years of 1875 and 1879, the South was in poor shape and most of the population was living in poverty. According to Woodward, the national average per capita was $870 and no Southern state came within $300 of the national average nor with the $550 of the average per capita outside of the South. (Woodward, 112) By 1879, there was a change in the South that was called by some the beginning of the Industrial Revolution of the South. After the Civil War, proponents of the “New South” did not want to rely strictly on Cotton production for economic growth. They wanted to diversify the south by adding new crops and turning toward a more industrialized South by following the example of the North. The North also saw some opportunities to make money in the South. According to Woodward, as a great depression came to an end in 1879, and released Northern and English capital that sought a Southern outlet for investment (Woodward, 113). Throughout the 1880’ and 1890’s Northern and Foreign capital were attracted by potential developments in the South.
“We will wait just a minute to catch our breath.” Randy said. The boys let a minute pass, then scurried down
Today people are being killed over free speech. And it just like somebody is going to come in and kill you. But somebody today will get mad at you because you were saying your opinion. But somebody will say something to tip somebody off. And its just like the twin towers somebody was mad about their religion and they just took over a plane crashed it into a building. That is what I hate somebody will say something wrong and somebody will blow up a building or they will take over a bomber and they are going to drop bombs all over the place.
Henry James was one of the famous writers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was known as an innovative and independent novelist. One of James' novels, The Turn of the Screw (1898), has caused a lot of controversy among many critics, and each of them has had a particular interpretation. James' creative writing built a close connection between his novel and his readers. The reactions of the readers toward The Turn of the Screw can be researched psychologically by analyzing how James developed his story using questionable incidents, an unreliable narrator, unexpected changes, an interesting prologue, and effective images and words.
The very setting of the fireside at which Griffin's guests swap stories establishes an atmosphere with which many of us are familiar. We can all relate to sitting around a fire exchanging ghost stories. By employing this particular narrative frame James encourages the reader to abandon their scepticism and give themselves over to a belief in the ghosts. The reader shares in the eagerness of the guests to be frightened; to be delighted by horror. Upon seeing Douglas' distress at the thought of the tale he must tell, and its "dreadful - dreadfulness", one of the female guests actually cries, "Oh how delicious!"5