Evacuate or Stay? North Shore LIJ and Hurricane Sandy

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C​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​ase Summary: Those from the New Jersey/New York area will remember Hurricane Sandy which made landfall in October 2012 causing widespread devastation including flooding, power outages, storm surges and more. In the midst of that, local hospitals had to make an important decision: do they evacuate patients—an expensive, labor-heavy, and physically-demanding ask of patients, or stay put and put patients at risk of being stranded or worse. This case looks at the decision making process involved. Directions: Carefully read the assigned case study and answer the assigned questions for the case. 1) Should Romagnoli and Solazzo order the evacuation of North Shore—-LIJ”s three flood—prone hospitals in advance of Hurricane Sandy or allow them to shelter—-in—-place? Why or why not? List the pros and cons of ordering an evacuation. (note: this question should take up majority of your response) 2) Should the government and media play a more prominent role in helping hospital systems prepare for hurricanes? 3)​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​ If you’ve carried out an evacuation without incident, does that make you more inclined to choose that option a second time? Conversely, if you carried out an evacuation and the storm weakened or resulted in no damage, would you be less inclined to choose that option again? Page Limit: Writing short papers is an executive and essential skill. In real-world situations, word limit is not as important as page limits. Accordingly, your submission should be no more than 4 pages, double-spaced, APA format, 1” margins on all sides in 12 point font. You are more than welcome to have appendices to the case assignment (that will not count towards the 4 page limit), but appendices are limited to presenting data or diagrams; the paper’s text should stand on its own. Any response that goes over 4 pages will automatically be given a 0. Lastly, please refrain from collecting information from outside sources about the company in the case study. You are expected to make decisions based on only the information available in th​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​e case.

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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