How does Estella treat Pip in their first meeting?

Estella is
scornful and arrogant to Pip on their first meeting. She calls him "boy" over and over
again, even though they are about the same age. She does this despite the fact that he is very
respectful of her and calls her "miss." Pip notes that she acts as if she is older
than he is. He attributes this to her being a beautiful girl and very self assured. He says she
behaves as "if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen."

What Pip
doesn't know at this point is that Estella has been deliberately brought up by Miss Havisham to
be proud and scornful of the male sex. Miss Havisham means for her to break Pip's heart in
revenge for her own distress and heartbreak at having been left at the marriage altar many years
before.

Explain the role of "Positioning" in services marketing.

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Positioning is the means by which a brand or company
presents its features and benefits to prospective customers. It is a means of establishing
identity, one that sets a business apart from competitors. It is also determined by variables
that include price, target audience, and the area where a firm does business.

A business must set itself apart from its competition. To be
successful it must identify and promote itself as the best provider of attributes that are
important to target customers. (George S. Day)

Services marketing is customer-directed communication that
promotes a service instead of a physical product. Whereas Proctor & Gamble sells Tide
detergent, a law firm sells less tangible services, such as legal advice. Using the example of a
law firm, we can describe its positioning and infer the type of client the firm
hopes...

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What message does "The Minister's Black Veil" convey?

This story conveys the
message that what unites all human beings is both our propensity to sin as well as our
insistence on concealing our sinful natures from our peers.  In this way, then, we can never
truly know or be known by another person because we hide behind the figurative veils that we
hold up between ourselves and everyone else. 

Mr. Hooper's first sermon after
beginning to wear the veil was about the subject of "secret sin," the sins that we
seek to hide from the world, ourselves, and even God (though such concealment from God is
ultimately impossible).  Further, his conversation with his fiancee, Elizabeth, hints at this
secret sorrow as well, especially when he insists that it is not particular to him but true of
all mortals.  Finally, in the end, when Mr. Hooper is on his deathbed, he marvels that the veil
has been the reason he's spent his life in isolation when he looks at all those around him and
says, "'lo! on every face a black veil!'"  People have ostracized
him alone because of the physical veil he wears, a veil which is only
symbolic of the human condition of sinfulness, the condition of all
people.

What does Lux mean by constellation in "The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently"?

When the poet
uses the word "constellation" he is using it to mean a whole array of things -- not
just one.  He is saying that when you read silently to yourself, you are exposed to a variety of
different sensations (because he says that it is a "sensory constellation) not just one
sensation.

When you read to yourself, you experience many things.  You
"see" things, of course, but you also engage your other senses, he says.  Lux says
that you can feel things and smell things.  You can hear the oats as they pour into the feed
troughs.  You can see how dirty the cow's haunches are, and you can probably smell it as
well.

The whole point of saying that there is a "sensory
constellation" is to tell you that reading can be a very vivid experience that impacts all
of your senses (at least in your mind).

Do you have the summary of chapter 25 of The Shakespeare Stealer?

In chapter
25, Widge suspects that Nick is in the property room. He is proven right when he opens the door.
As for Nick, his hands are on the Hamlet playbook. Widge suspects that Nick
is stealing the playbook for Falconer (whom we later discover is none other than the villainous
Bass). Bass is the man who hired Widge to use his skills to steal Shakespeare's
Hamlet play.

Widge confronts Nick and tells the latter
to leave the playbook and go. Nick refuses and thrusts his rapier at Widge. Meanwhile, Widge
tries to parry the blow with his stage sword. The two fight furiously, until Nick thrusts his
sword into Widge's abdomen. Then, stunned by the flow of blood, Nick grabs the playbook and
flees.

Meanwhile, Sander enters the room and is immediately shocked by what
he sees. As for Widge, he asks Sander if he is going to die. After scrutinizing him, Sander
unexpectedly laughs. He tells Widge that it was his blood bag that Nick burst. Widge is
relieved...

What moments of dramatic irony occur in act 2 of Romeo and Juliet?

Dramaticoccurs when the audience knows what
the characters in a play do not.

As an audience, we are well aware by act 2
that Rosaline is history as far asis concerned, because he has fallen head over heels in love
with . Romeo's friends, however, have not caught up with the new set of affairs. Why would they?
Just a few hours ago, Romeo was insisting that Rosaline was the only woman in the world for him.
No other woman in the world would ever compare to Rosaline.

Thus, we
encounter dramatic irony in act 2, scene 4, asandwonder what became of the missing Romeo.
Mercutio says,

Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench,
that Rosaline,

Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.

This is dramatic irony, for we know that Rosaline is no longer
tormenting Romeo.

At the beginning of scene 5,
dramatic irony again occurs. We know that the nurse and Romeo have successfully connected and
set into motion the marriage plan, but the anxious Juliet does not yet have this information.
She is on tenterhooks, not knowing what her nurse learned, so dramatic irony is in play when
Juliet, worried about bad news, says:

Though news be
sad, yet tell them merrily.

In Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" what is the significance of the old man's deafness?

an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against
the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust
and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt
the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and
while he was a good client

The old man's deafness is
significant because Hemingway uses him and the deafness as a symbol for the "nothing"
that the older waiter discourses about when he, himself, is all alone in the...