Analysis Essay

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Download the file, Essay2Template.docx, and compose your essay in this file, as it is already formatted with the correct margins, fonts, etc.

Use the Edit Header feature in Word to replace the text “Information System” with a brief name or acronym for your information system. Replace “Name”, in the header, with your name. If you do not know how to edit a header in Word, use the Help feature in Word, or Google for instructions on editing a header in Word.

Your essay must be at least 1000 words (approximately 2 pages long). Microsoft Word has a word count feature and you can usually view the word count in the bar at the bottom of Word. If necessary, Google for help on how to view the Word count in Microsoft Word. I have formatted the file so that you should be able to fit a 1000 word essay on approximately two pages.

Please write only in your own words. You are encouraged to read various sources to learn more about your information system, but due to the brief length of the essay, you are discouraged from directly quoting from your sources. Instead, explain what you learned from your research, and what you know from your own experience with the system, in your own words. Do not quote directly from your references, but do list the references you consulted in your research at the bottom of your essay.

Look at the examples of model essays. These examples demonstrate proper formatting and a model for what the content of your analysis should contain.

In Analysis Essay #2, you will address the following: 1) a brief reminder of the name and purpose of your chosen information system, 2) positive and negative impacts your information system has on the users of the system, and 3) your recommendations for improving and enhancing your chosen information system.

Begin with a brief paragraph reminding us of the full name of your information system and its primary purpose and uses. Do not copy this from your first essay, but briefly describe your system again in different words.

The next 2-3 paragraphs should address the positive and negative impacts your information system has on the users of the system. Positive impacts are benefits your information system has for the users. For business systems, this will include how it makes your business processes more effective and efficient. For home and personal systems, this will include how the system makes some task or tasks in your personal life more effective and efficient. Try to quantify some of the positive impacts in terms of savings of cost, time, and effort by the users, as compared to what the manual process of accomplishing the same tasks would be, if you did not have the computer-based information system.
Negative impacts may include overdependence on the information system. When there is a system outage, how does this impact the operations and productivity of your organization? Be sure to also discuss any contingency plans that the users of this system have for maintaining business continuity during system outages (for business systems) or for accomplishing the same tasks manually or via a different system (for home/personal systems).

In the rest of your essay, give at least 3 recommendations for improving your information system. This section of your essay should be at least 1 page long. Each recommendation should be at least one fully developed paragraph and should not just identify a problem with the system, but should offer a specific, concrete solution to that problem, along with a plan for how you would implement that solution. The types of recommendations I am looking for are improvements and enhancements to the computer-based information system itself. I am primarily looking for you to suggest new features and functions that could be added to the system to make it better. What additional functions would you like your information system to be able to do? I am looking for your own original ideas. Additional technical recommendations you could make include specific ways you would add additional back-up or redundancy capabilities, or specific hardware upgrades that might increase the speed of the system. Just make sure that each recommendation you make is for a technical improvement to the system itself, and not managerial or organizational recommendations, like additional training on the system. Also, be as specific as possible. For example, if you recommend that the layout of the system’s graphical user interface be made more user-friendly, then describe exactly what you would change about the layout to improve the usability.

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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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