Reflective Journal

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You are encouraged to provide a structured abstract for this official assignment. Please consider something in the lines of…

Abstract/Overview (you choose what you want to call it)
(Think Purpose). My aim in this reflective essay is to first provide an overview of what I have learned so far in the class: Values, Ethics and Sustainability. I also intend on sharing my personal vision statement describing my current and future contributions to business and society.
(Think about your Design/methodology/approach of the essay). To this end, I have decided to organize my essay in five parts (talk about all five parts here in this paragraph). In the first section, I will provide an overview of the most contemporary issues (no more than 3 please) my fellow classmates discussed in each of the chapters by ….(those presenting the terms). In the second… in the third, and lastly… Then, organize the parts accordingly.

Next, I share with you how you can organize the entire essay after the abstract/overview.

Part I. Give it a title, a catchy one.
This is straight forward. You need to list a good number of topics (terms) you learned during the chapters presentations by the students. What impacted you the most? Students normally provide a nice discussion of what each of the new terms they learned mean to them. Examples are usually a good way to share a comprehensive discussion. You can even draw from your own reaction paper here.
Sentence 1: definition from book, or given by the student presenting term in his/her reaction paper. Sentence 2: an external definition – perhaps a dictionary. Sentence 3: apply it – where can you use the term (most likely in the short case described at the end of the chapter).

Part II. Give it a title, again, catchy…
… In the second section, I have decided to incorporate some of discussions (no more than 3 please) we have had from the short cases in the textbook, as well as other materials we used in class….

Here you would provide a discussion on what each of the short cases from the textbook are telling you? What have been those implications to future managers based on these short cases? How do they help you develop good managerial skills and decision making skills?
Sentence 1: this case was about the airline industry…
Sentence 2: the issue was….
Sentence 3: the decision made was
Sentence 4: if asked … (look for one of the case questions and answer it)

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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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