Portfolio Assignment
SUS1501 – Sustainability and Greed
Student Number:
Date:
Teaching Assistant Name:
Declaration:
By submitting this portfolio, I implicitly declare that this is my own work except for the
“Introduction” which was kindly written for me by my lecturer.
I am aware that if ANY unacknowledged copying is detected in ANY answer, I will get 0 (zero)
for the entire assignment.
Instructions:
• Please read the instructions on myUnisa carefully.
• Please download the most up-to-date version of this template from your group site on myUnisa.
• Go through the MCQs again, and record your current choice in the template (we suggest that
you don’t look at your original choices before you have been through all questions)
• For each question, record your original choice in assignment 1.
• Write a note of AT LEAST 100 words for each of the five (5) questions that are written in red.
• Write a note of AT LEAST 100 words each for any other five (5) questions of your choice.
• Write your conclusion of AT LEAST 500 words
• Somewhere within your notes and/or conclusion there must be meaningful references to the
major theories that we covered (deontology, consequentialism, distributive justice, virtue ethics
and environmental ethics).
• Your notes and conclusion should also make reference to discussions with fellow students that
you found meaningful.
, • Save the file as a Word document with a short name (myUnisa will reject files with long names).
• Submit this file into the Assignments tool on myUnisa.
• Take a screen grab of the final submission acknowledgement on myUnisa and save this
somewhere safe in case of any disputes.
• Check under the Assignments tool that there is a date in the “Processed” cell for the SUS1501
Portfolio.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST – i.e. if you do not fulfill ALL of these you will NOT pass this
portfolio:
1. Correct template version used
2. All 20 multiple choice question original answers captured
3. All 20 multiple choice question answers now captured
4. Notes for the five (5) questions in red
5. Notes for AT LEAST five (5) other questions of your choice
6. Each note AT LEAST 100 words long
7. Conclusion present
8. Conclusion AT LEAST 500 words long
, Introduction
My aim in compiling this portfolio was to reflect on the things that have struck me throughout
this crazy module.
My starting point for doing this was to revisit my opinions to the multiple choice questions
which were presented in the Crossroads assignment. I present these current opinions, together
with my original opinions, and some brief notes in the section entitled: “Back at the
Crossroads!”
Once I have done this, I draw some key conclusions about this crazy module and about the
things that did indeed strike me.
Back at the Crossroads!
1. (YOU MUST WRITE NOTES ON THIS QUESTION) “Why do some people have to be miserably poor in
order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even
have a piece of bread.” (Fidel Castro) My personal opinion on this statement, is most closely
described by:
a. Who cares what Castro said? He was an ideological dinosaur anyway.
b. Wealth and poverty are unrelated phenomena.
c. Well perhaps the rich should just stop all their charity and we’ll see where this leaves the
ungrateful poor.
d. Well on a simple technical level, the answer to this is poverty and wealth are both relative
so it’s just not possible for there to be someone rich without someone who is relatively
poor.
e. I think this is the wrong question. The right question is: “How do we prevent people being
extravagantly rich while others are miserably poor?”
Choice now: e
Choice in assignment 1: e
SUS1501 – Sustainability and Greed
Student Number:
Date:
Teaching Assistant Name:
Declaration:
By submitting this portfolio, I implicitly declare that this is my own work except for the
“Introduction” which was kindly written for me by my lecturer.
I am aware that if ANY unacknowledged copying is detected in ANY answer, I will get 0 (zero)
for the entire assignment.
Instructions:
• Please read the instructions on myUnisa carefully.
• Please download the most up-to-date version of this template from your group site on myUnisa.
• Go through the MCQs again, and record your current choice in the template (we suggest that
you don’t look at your original choices before you have been through all questions)
• For each question, record your original choice in assignment 1.
• Write a note of AT LEAST 100 words for each of the five (5) questions that are written in red.
• Write a note of AT LEAST 100 words each for any other five (5) questions of your choice.
• Write your conclusion of AT LEAST 500 words
• Somewhere within your notes and/or conclusion there must be meaningful references to the
major theories that we covered (deontology, consequentialism, distributive justice, virtue ethics
and environmental ethics).
• Your notes and conclusion should also make reference to discussions with fellow students that
you found meaningful.
, • Save the file as a Word document with a short name (myUnisa will reject files with long names).
• Submit this file into the Assignments tool on myUnisa.
• Take a screen grab of the final submission acknowledgement on myUnisa and save this
somewhere safe in case of any disputes.
• Check under the Assignments tool that there is a date in the “Processed” cell for the SUS1501
Portfolio.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST – i.e. if you do not fulfill ALL of these you will NOT pass this
portfolio:
1. Correct template version used
2. All 20 multiple choice question original answers captured
3. All 20 multiple choice question answers now captured
4. Notes for the five (5) questions in red
5. Notes for AT LEAST five (5) other questions of your choice
6. Each note AT LEAST 100 words long
7. Conclusion present
8. Conclusion AT LEAST 500 words long
, Introduction
My aim in compiling this portfolio was to reflect on the things that have struck me throughout
this crazy module.
My starting point for doing this was to revisit my opinions to the multiple choice questions
which were presented in the Crossroads assignment. I present these current opinions, together
with my original opinions, and some brief notes in the section entitled: “Back at the
Crossroads!”
Once I have done this, I draw some key conclusions about this crazy module and about the
things that did indeed strike me.
Back at the Crossroads!
1. (YOU MUST WRITE NOTES ON THIS QUESTION) “Why do some people have to be miserably poor in
order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even
have a piece of bread.” (Fidel Castro) My personal opinion on this statement, is most closely
described by:
a. Who cares what Castro said? He was an ideological dinosaur anyway.
b. Wealth and poverty are unrelated phenomena.
c. Well perhaps the rich should just stop all their charity and we’ll see where this leaves the
ungrateful poor.
d. Well on a simple technical level, the answer to this is poverty and wealth are both relative
so it’s just not possible for there to be someone rich without someone who is relatively
poor.
e. I think this is the wrong question. The right question is: “How do we prevent people being
extravagantly rich while others are miserably poor?”
Choice now: e
Choice in assignment 1: e
