Confidence trick

after her marriage with Dumuzi. Therefore, she has the desire to conquer the underworld which her sister, Ereshkigal, reigns. Her confidence that she can usurp the underworld is shown as Wolkstein writes, “When Inanna arrived at the outer gates of the underworld, she knocked loudly, she cried out in a fierce voice” (Wolkstein 54-55). Her figure that is full of confidence is a form of valiant soldier. The seven me with her represents her preparation for the war with Ereshkigal as Wolkstein…

How did the British people see their empire at the end of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? They saw the Empire evolving and even some devolving. For the people living in the British empire, during the turn of the century, Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee was a time of pride and yet a time of growing insecurity about the fate of the nation, because of the concerns with status as an economic power, a strong anti-imperial sentiment was growing, and the resistance in Ireland.…

They can be helping another person in danger, or someone who helps another person who needs confidence to go on with life’s hard acts. The military men and women who defend our country go through a lot of risks and sacrifices to maintain the safety of the United States. They’re risk takers, strong, selfless, and sacrificial. They’re on the edge of…

The Thrill Seeker’s Guide on How to Make a Slackline Slacklining is a difficult, yet entertaining, sport that is similar to the death-defying feats of circus tightrope walking, minus the balancing pole. The act of balancing while walking on a length of rope has been around for centuries, but only in the last few decades has it taken on new life with those who are looking for an exciting form of exercise and concentration, without the fear of long falls without a net. There are numerous places…

My interests have been pretty clear from childhood. I was always inspired by what a computer could do. Growing up with this advancing technology, every day there has been something new to learn. After my training for the International Olympiad of Informatics to represent India, there was no doubt that I wanted to build things faster and more efficient than before. However, until then I did not know the booming field called machine learning. I always tried to make algorithms to predict something…

the finish or quality of makeup products I pick -- the City is just way too hot to wear makeup. Saying so, I’m definitely one of the girls who is not okay not wearing a foundation at all. Yes, my skin might not be the worst I’ve seen and I have a confidence walking around bare-faced, but I just feel that I look better when I’m wearing a nicely applied tone and a blush. I don’t necessarily need a powder (only on my nose) as my skin is very dry, but I do enjoy a matt but not heavy coverage on my…

“The domain of art is not one in which the Party is called upon to command. It can and must protect and help it, but it can only lead it indirectly. It can and must give the additional credit of its confidence to various art groups, which are striving sincerely to approach the revolution and so help an artistic formulation of the revolution.” (Trotsky). This conception of art by Leon TROTSKY reflects the mainstream position of the communist party toward the cultural and artistic life in Russia…

he looks to excuse his jealousy towards Finny, Gene reflects on their friendship. He then decides that Finny has always been working against him. He starts to lose himself in his own mind and assumes that Finny’s friendship and love is fake and a trick. He states, “Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies” and “The way I believed that you’re-my-best-friend blabber!” (53). Gene has started to become so paranoid that it becomes very obvious that he is overthinking the friendship and that…

“How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, and Halfie” by Junot Diaz is a guide for teenage boys in preparing for a date. It starts off with a confident narrator pretending to be sick to stay home because he doesn’t want to go to his aunt’s house with his mom. He convinces his mom to let him stay home and after his mom leaves, he clears the “government cheese” from the refrigerator which tells readers that his family is on welfare. He does things like taking embarrassing pictures down,…

that I have enough kindness and confidence to show the students with appropriate behavior and manners when in the classroom. To me, the most meaningful experience during my time as an SSL was most likely when a student that I was working with for a couple weeks became a good friend to me and got everything right on a test. It was the his first A so far, so he was very surprised. I felt that taking time and trying to help him review for that test really did the trick for him. When I first did…