Sustainability Audit

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Deploy appropriate problem solving skills to propose relevant sustainability improvements to an existing event. 25% Guidance The following guidance is designed to help you respond to the assessment criteria in a clear and structured manner. The guidelines offer suggestions only and it is important to understand the grade awarded will be derived from the assessment criteria. You should also refer to the Assignment 2 discussion forum, which contains links to previous examples of student work and a podcast, with further spoken guidance. A Sustainability Audit is a review of an event‘s or organisation’s current sustainability performance. It takes an inventory of the policies, procedures and practices informing the event / organisation and compares them to industry best practices. It should also aim to provide specific recommendations on how to improve performance, including what additional initiatives might be considered. Beyond the value of the evidence recorded in the audit, it is also an extremely useful management and development tool, which can be used to: Help improve planning, structure and accountability Prompt identification of new sustainability initiatives Improve sustainability performance Choosing your event / organisation For this assignment, you will need to identify an event or an organisation (ideally who delivers events in some form) on which you will be able to conduct an audit. Ideally, this would be your current employer, or an organisation that you work with in an established capacity, either as perhaps paid or voluntary staff. This relationship should enable you to gather audit data most effectively. It is important to establish the accessibility of data and evidence for the audit – will the organisation / event be willing to provide you with the information required and / or will you be able to collect the data and evidence via primary research conducted at the event / or through other engagement opportunities? You should request permission to use existing policies and audit current behaviours as soon as possible. Please ensure that you discuss your ideas for events / organisations to audit with the Module Leader and Online Tutor to ensure that you make a good choice as to subject. If you are unable to identify an event / organisation, please contact your Module Leader and Online Tutor as soon as possible to help you source an alternative. Content You should aim to conduct this assignment by identifying three key areas of your chosen event / organisation for audit. These might be selected from the following key areas, all covered within the AGF training from weeks 3 and 4: Local dire​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​ct impacts of events Procurement Travel and transport Power Solid waste and recycling Water use, wastewater and sewerage Communication and behaviour change Please note, some of these areas have also been further explored in the weeks on Economic Sustainability, Planning and Management, Social Sustainability, Environmental Communications and Behavioural Change. The final document should aim to provide a clear map of the selected sustainability practices, with recommendation for further possible sustainability practices. Suggested Structure You might find the following suggested framework and word counts useful: Cover page featuring the title of your literature review, your name, student number, date of submission, word count and declaration of independent work (not included in word count) Introduction (600 words) This section should include commentary on the role and importance of a sustainability audit, and key information regarding the audited event / organisation ie, location, size, aims, approach to sustainability, and other relevant contextual detail Methodology (200 words) This section should contain details on how you gained the data used within the audit ie, has the data been supplied by the event / organisation; been collected personally / with a team; been sourced from secondary data available online? Audit In this section you should comprehensively detail the current sustainability performance of three areas of the event / organisation: Area 1 (600 words) ie, power Area 2 (600 words) ie, food waste or other source of waste Area 3 (600 words) ie, travel and trans

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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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