CE – Return, Reference and Overload

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You are going to create a simple calculator.

  1. The program should call a function to display a menu of three options:
    a. 1 – Integer Math
    b. 2 – Double Math
    c. 3 – Exit Program
  2. The program must test that the user enters in a valid menu option. If they do not, the program must display an error message and allow the user to reenter the selection. Once valid, the function must return the option selected.
  3. If the user selects 1 or 2, the program should allow the user to enter in any two numbers.
    a. The program must create 5 functions called add, subtract, multiply, divide and mod. These functions must take two integers as arguments and return an integer to the calling function. Each function performs the appropriate mathematical task.
    b. The program must create 4 functions called add, subtract, multiply and divide. These functions must take two doubles as pass by value parameters and one double as a pass by reference variables. The function does the calculation and sets the reference variable to the calculated value; this is how the value is returned to the calling function. Each function performs the appropriate mathematical task.
    c. The program must create two functions called display.
    i. The first display function takes the five integer values calculated and displays them
    ii. The second display function takes the four double values calculated and display them to two decimal places
  4. If the user select 3, the program should call a function to display a goodbye message. EXTRA CREDIT: If the user select 3, the program should call a function to ask the user if they want to exit the program. The only valid responses are Y, y, N and n. The program must test that the user enters in a valid response. If they do not, the program must display an error message and allow the user to reenter the selection. Once valid, the function must return a Boolean back to the calling function telling the calling function to allow for a new entry to end the program.
  5. The program should only end if the user selects 3 from the menu (or the combination of 3 and y or Y for the EXTRA CREDIT). There is no other way to end the program.
  6. Print some goodbye message.
  7. Notes:
    a. The program must declare all of the functions using prototypes.
    b. All integer functions must return a value. The main program should always contain a variable to catch that return value. All of the functions that use pass by reference should have a data return type of void.

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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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