Quantitative or qualitative methods

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What quantitative or qualitative methods could you incorporate in your study.
According to the information provided within chapter 3, quantitative research would best fit the format of my study (Lunenburg & Irby, 2013). Based on the examples given to explain quantitative design methods, the descriptive research design seems to apply to my study strategy. Descriptive research requires inquiry into an occurrence (circumstance), which explains the activities, performances, and transformations within the occurrence (Lunenburg & Irby, 2013). My research focuses on police personality (actions and behaviors) and the performance abilities among male and female police officer to identify factors that impact the slow progression (transformation) of female police officers within the field of law enforcement.
Quantitative research utilizes data from the viewpoint of the scholars or applicants connected to the research (Lunenburg & Irby, 2013). My research focuses on two original studies (Skolnick’s police personality study and Bloch and Anderson’s study on female patrol officers’ performance abilities), subsequent research, and statistical data (data collected by the government to account for the number of female officers hired, retained, and employed throughout the years). Overlapping these forms of data will allow me to detect similarities and differences related to police personality and performance abilities in correlation to gender.
Example 3.2, which studied the correlation between obesity in children and screen time. This example has similar undertones to my research topic. The study investigated two factors, the quantity of time the children (elementary age) watch television and the parenteral guidelines used to control the children’s screen time in correlation with each children’s weight (Lunenburg & Irby, 2013). My study also takes into consideration two factors such as police officers performance abilities based on gender and police personality. The purpose of examining both factors is to pinpoint characteristics specific to the field of law enforcement and identify factors related to why female officers are underrepresented within a profession dominated by male officers, especially if female officers perform at the same level as their male counterparts. Do personality differences between female and male officers affect the number of female officers employed within the field or does the police environment play a valid role in deterring female officers from entering the field?
The obesity study investigated the psychological effects related to parental guidance and screen time in relation to weight gain. My study also focuses on the psychological traits related to performance (behavior) capabilities to determine the effects it has on the employment of female officers. Both studies look into the psychological and sociological factors related to either the growth of obesity rates in children (North American) or the regression in female officers within the field of law enforcement (Lunenburg & Irby, 2013). Although all the examples given in chapter 3 conducted their own experimental study, I will rely on the findings of ethnographic research of past studies to further my analysis.

 

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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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