A Transport Assessment is a thorough analysis of all the likely transport implications of a proposed
development. This is an individual coursework. Each student will produce technical content relating
to various elements of a Transport Assessment, presented in a manner that could be extracted and
input directly into the final formal, professional report. To clarify, in this scenario the student is not
required to prepare the full Transport Assessment report, only to prepare a number of specific
elements that could then be directly input into the final report that would be collated and
completed by someone else. Students are therefore not required to prepare a contents page or an
introduction, you are only required to complete the elements of work relating to the five tasks listed
below.
Students are required to undertake five separate elements of work (Tasks 1 to 5) that all relate to
the same proposed residential development:
Task 1 – Accessibility by sustainable modes of transport
Task 2 – Road accident analysis
Task 3 – Review of junction modelling results
Task 4 – Policy review and conclusions (relating to work undertaken for Tasks 1 to 3)
Task 5 – Parking provision analysis
It is advised that students complete each task in the order listed. Detailed instructions and the initial
data relating to the proposed development, required to assist students in completing each of these
tasks, are provided in the separate document, ‘CIVE30002 Mini TA Coursework – information for
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students’, which will be made available in the NOW learning room for this module. Lectures will
provide information that will be helpful in completing this coursework and these will be supported
by practical seminar sessions in which students will work through examples of transport data
analysis appropriate to Transport Assessment in order to prepare students to undertake this
coursework.
Whilst presenting the analysis and writing up findings and conclusions, students are to be mindful
that a Transport Assessment is a formal technical report that will be read and scrutinised by the
Local Authority Highways and Transport Officers, in order to assist them in their decision as to
whether or not to recommend the approval of planning consent for the proposed development. The
style of presentation and language used should therefore be appropriate to the intended purpose
and audience.

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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.

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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