Research designs and data collection

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With a developing understanding of research designs and data collection
methods, you can now begin to understand the concept of qualitative
data analysis and select an appropriate data analysis method. This
week, you will demonstrate your understanding of qualitative data
analysis methods, as well as the appropriate application as prescribed
by qualitative research principles. This assignment includes several
prompts, and there is an option regarding presentation (essay, set of
blog posts, or PowerPoint presentation). As with Week 3, in line with the
principles of Andragogy, offering you a presentation choice will
accommodate your individual preferences and abilities.
This week, you are provided with an explanation of how to structure a
presentation (Spotlight on Skills). Remember, slides are visual aids to
support what you would say during a presentation. This resource will
help you to compose your slides in a way that effectively balances
visuals and text. You are also provided with an explanation of how to
create a blog entry (Spotlight on Skills). Note that a blog (shortening of
“weblog”) is a set of online informational posts, with a writer
communicating their views on a subject in a conversational manner.
Blogging is typically used for teaching and educational purposes.
You have covered a lot of material these past 4 weeks. Now, you have
an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of qualitative
methodology and designs through a true/false knowledge check.
Correctly answering all of these quiz items will earn you a badge!
For this week’s assignment, you will consider a data analysis method
that aligns with the qualitative research design for a potential study that
you proposed in Week 2. Address each of the following four prompts as
an essay, series of blog posts, or presentation:
■ Explain your proposed method of data analysis in detail, and how
this method aligns with your chosen research design.
■ Discuss what you see as the advantages and potential challenges
of the proposed method.
■ Explain how you will code data, by providing examples to illustrate
your analysis process. Based on your topic and research design as
explored in Week 2, develop a mock coding scheme that includes
a preliminary set of start codes. These codes can come from the
relevant literature on your topic, or you can come up with some
ideas based on your own experience.
■ Whether you choose to engage in a manual coding process to
analyze your research data or to use NVivo (the data analysis
software that is available to you through the University), there are
some features regarding coding and analysis that are common to
both approaches. Explain in what ways you think manual coding
and software coding will be similar and/or different? State your
preference, explaining the reasons for your choice.

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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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