Letter to Donald Trump, as US President

by | Feb 4, 2020 | Politics

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Instructions:
Write a letter to Donald Trump, as US President (not businessman), in NO MORE than 4 (Four) DOUBLE-SPACED pages (can be between 3-4 pages). Please use the article (Globalization in the Age of Trump) and any other relevant videos you feel will help (if you wish), such as Jack Ma Davos 2017,2018, 2019 as a backdrop for the base information.
*Important, I’m trusting you to use tact, judgment, and professionalism. While I can perhaps expect “some” judgment, please LIMIT any bias (positive or negative) to professional concerns, not personal ones. That will be fine since your professional perspectives/opinion/analysis is what I’m looking for. Please make sure you write an actual letter, addressed to the President; do not write this as an academic assignment written to an instructor. You may be impressed with yourself and what this secondary pedagogy can reveal about your communication skills on sensitive/important issues.
In your letter, please address the following issues – but make sure you are writing to him as an OVERALL letter (so utilize the context of the world we currently live in and some of the facets of his presidency):

  1. How do you think the concept of globalization MAY need to change over the next several years?
  2. Are President Trump’s economic policies to eliminate the trade deficit with China beneficial to the US
    economy?
  3. While most people (including myself) don’t think global trade will cease (of course), the article does suggest
    that there are some real elements of nationalism on the rise. If there is, to some extent, a global rise in
    nationalism, who will be the “winners” and “losers?” Please think carefully about this question – since there may be a number of constituents on both sides.

**In order to do well, please keep in mind several general guidelines:

  1. Please make sure all information you provide is specific to the article AND questions asked. At times, some general info is OK, but never generic info. In other words, please make sure whatever you write about will be relevant.
  2. You will do better on this project if you are in-tune with as much current information you know about
    China and the US as it relates to current international business/trade issues.

Evaluation of Deliverables: All analyses of future activity are subjective; therefore, I do not seek to necessarily assess whether you are right (or wrong) but rather whether you have demonstrated the ability to use reason and logic in presenting your perspective. You are expected to communicate your perspective and analysis in a cogent and coherent fashion. You can be ineffective by not using information, by being inconsistent, and most of all by NOT explaining your thinking and by NOT supporting your subjective analysis using appropriate concepts. The letter should demonstrate how well you can explicitly apply the frameworks and concepts from the article/any relevant videos to analyze a situation.

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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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