Research Project Submission Checklist Requirements
IMPORTANT: Before you submit your Research Project due in Week 12, 11:59 PM EST, please review each item below (1) to (11) to ensure your Research Project fully complies with the requirements.
Please keep in mind that your Research Project is 27% of your total course grade.
(1) Review of the IACBE Outcomes & Rubrics Artifact – BUS 4451 Research Project section of the Course Syllabus.
(2) Review of the Hilton International sample Research Project, which is posted under Modules, as a model for your Research Project. Your Research Project MUST include the Financial Analysis of your approved company.
(3) Approved Company: Your Research Project MUST cover the company that I have approved. A Research Project covering any other company will not be accepted, resulting in a zero.
(4) Approved File Type: MS-Word doc/docx files is required. No other file types will be accepted.
(5) APA Formatted Paper: Double-spaced 12 point Times New Roman font. 1″ left and right side margins. 1″ top and bottom margins. APA first page header. APA last name/page number header for all pages.
(6) Proper APA Citations: Your Research Project MUST have all direct quotes, paraphrased material, facts, and figures properly cited with an APA in-text citation at the end of the sentences where material from your sources was used. A corresponding listing in APA format MUST be included under a References section at the end of your Research Project. Failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism, which will result in a zero. Note that using “According to…” is NOT a substitute for an APA in-text citation.
(7) High-Quality Sources: 8 or more high-quality sources; all properly cited. Please refer to the Week 7 Discussions where you evaluated the use of sources. High-quality sources include academic journals, textbooks, financial reports, and company websites. Non-academic sources are not recommended. Examples: Wikipedia, investopedia.com, about.com, smallbusiness.chron.com, huffingtonpost.com, ehow.com, forbes.com, cnn.com, nytimes, washingtonpost, online encyclopedias, or similar non-academic websites
(8) Sufficient Length (not including cover page or reference list): 2,500 words or more for a full strategic assessment of the company.
(9) Components: Your Research Project MUST include all of the following components:
A. Introduction
B. Situational Analysis:
B1. A brief overview of the firm, including a mission/vision analysis: Written Assignment #1*
B2. Internal analysis of strengths and weaknesses, including a relevant financial analysis: Written Assignment #4* including the Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix and a Relevant Financial Analysis
B3. External analysis of firm’s opportunities and threats: Written Assignment #3* including External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix.
C. Industry analysis using Porter’s Five Forces or other relevant model: Written Assignment #2* including the Five Forces Chart.
D. Net assessment and critique of the viability and strategic potential of the firm’s current strategy, or an elucidation and evaluation of the strategic alternatives available for recommendation by the student.
E. References
*Written Assignments: Please review my grading comments and mark-ups on the electronic versions of your Written Assignments.
(10) Carefully Proofread: Please review your Research Project for spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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 Studies, 4(8), 487.
Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.
