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Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, watch the Week 2 Discussion video with Brenda Forde, CPA, MBA. Next, create a free LinkedIn account using the resource, LinkedIn Alumni Tool for University of Arizona Global Campus.Links to an external site.

LinkedIn is considered a powerful job search tool in today’s world, known primarily for online networking and job searching. However, LinkedIn can also be used to research organizations, industries, and career paths. With LinkedIn, you can access millions of other working professionals and explore things such as current job titles, past job titles, certifications, and so forth. You can see exactly what others are doing with their MBAs in the areas of financial management, strategy, ethics, or other related fields, and then figure out how they got there based on their career history.

Before beginning this discussion forum, use the LinkedIn Alumni Tool for University of Arizona Global Campus Links to an external site.resource and create a free LinkedIn account, if you do not have one already. Then, utilize the search bar to find fellow alumni that have completed their MBA. To do this, simply type “MBA” in the search bar. Once the results appear, take your time clicking on profiles that interest you. You should also search outside of UAGC to gain a broader perspective. To do this, you can utilize the main search bar and once again type in “MBA.” Make sure to click on “people” to begin searching through the directory.

Initial Response:

In your initial post, discuss five MBA graduates with interesting career titles and explain their current role based on their LinkedIn profile details. You do not need to give the names of the five people. Address the following in your post:

Critique their titles and how they are using their degree.
From these five roles, which one sounds the most interesting to you and why?
Are any of these roles in line with how you plan to use your MBA after graduation?
Would you consider pursuing any of these five roles?
If you have not already created a LinkedIn profile, please do so now or update your profile based on your research.

Sample solution

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.

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 Studies4(8), 487.

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

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