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Compare and Contrast Essay-Arrogance Vs Confidence

Josiah Bomers compares and contrasts arrogance and confidence in a 3-paragraph essay. Arrogance is when a person thinks they are better than others and will bully those they see as weaker. Confidence means knowing one's own abilities without feeling superior or inferior to others. While both relate to being confident in one's skills, arrogance involves putting others down to lift oneself up, whereas confidence allows one to help others without needing approval. The essay argues that although arrogance and confidence can be mistaken, there is an important difference between the two traits.

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Compare and Contrast Essay-Arrogance Vs Confidence

Josiah Bomers compares and contrasts arrogance and confidence in a 3-paragraph essay. Arrogance is when a person thinks they are better than others and will bully those they see as weaker. Confidence means knowing one's own abilities without feeling superior or inferior to others. While both relate to being confident in one's skills, arrogance involves putting others down to lift oneself up, whereas confidence allows one to help others without needing approval. The essay argues that although arrogance and confidence can be mistaken, there is an important difference between the two traits.

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Josiah Bomers

Miss Schimmel

Senior English

9/14/2020

Compare and Contrast Essay-Arrogance VS Confidence

Arrogance and confidence may seem similar or the same thing, but there are

only a few similarities. First off, Arrogance is the act of making claims or

pretentious to superior rights or importance; overbearingly assuming; or insolently

proud.’ Confidence however, is a feeling of self-assurance arising from one's

appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities. A person can see that the difference

is that one is arrogant because they assume they are important or are better than

others, while confidence is that a person knows what their skills are and

understands how to use their skills. These two very different traits can tell someone

who and what a person is like.

Arrogance is when a person thinks they are better than their peers. This can

be either because a lot of people look up to them, or because they think they are

way more capable than others. One can identify an arrogant person because of the

many ways they treat others. Arrogance makes one to want to feel smarter,

stronger or in general, better than everyone else. Some examples would be how

they are constantly making people feel self conscious about the mistakes they

make and mocking them for it, or by the way they treat others by pushing them out
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of their way or shunning them in front of other people. An arrogant person always

wants to be the best and will bully those who they consider weaker to feel better.

Confidence however is that a person knows what their skills are, and they

are confident or know that they are not lesser or greater than everyone else; they

are content. They do not feel the need to bully others to raise themselves up, nor do

they feel the need to impress others by what they can do. A confident person helps

or volunteers not to impress but because they are just trying to be of use. Finally,

confident people are more likely to help others than mock them to make

themselves feel good.

Similarities between these two are few, even though arrogance and

confidence are often mixed up. These two may be mixed up because both have to

do with how confident you are with your skills, but arrogance is more of a

delusined sort of confidence; it comes from breaking down others and building

yourself up. Even though these two attributes of a person may seem very similar,

there is still a big difference that is important to identify inorder to tell if one is

arrogant or confident.

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