Portfolio Assignment
SUS1501 – Sustainability and Greed
Student Number:
Date:
Teaching Assistant Name: Q ISMAIL SOOLIMAN
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 the additional resources tool
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. (If you have forgotten your
original choices, you can find these as in the Self Assessments tool. For Assignment 1 click on
“Feedback” and you will find your choices).
• Jot down AT LEAST 10 notes reflecting on your choices for any of the 20 questions.
• Each note must be AT LEAST 100 words long
• Write your conclusion of AT LEAST 500 words
• Your notes and conclusion should include references to the theory that we covered.
• 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.
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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST – i.e. if you do not fulfill ALL of these you will NOT pass this
portfolio:
1. Correct template version used X
2. All 20 multiple choice question original answers captured X
3. All 20 multiple choice question answers now captured X
4. Notes for AT LEAST ten (10) questions X
5. Each note AT LEAST 100 words long X
6. Conclusion present X
7. Conclusion AT LEAST 500 words long X
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, 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. “Greed is good” My personal opinion of what should be done, is most closely described by:
a. It’s not good or bad. It’s just how things are.
b. Absolutely! If it wasn’t for greed we would never achieve anything.
c. I’m not sure. Sometimes I think that it’s good. At other times I think that it’s bad.
d. It depends on how you define “greed”.
e. Absolutely not! Greed is bad. It leads to much pain and suffering.
Choice now: D
Choice in assignment 1: B
Notes: Well that depends on how you define greed, personally I’d say there’s negative greed and
there’s positive greed. A negative greed, in my opinion, is a greed that consumes a person, causing
him or her to waste away as a result of the heat of the terrible attributes it causes one to develop,
such as selfishness, wrath, jealously, and unhealthy competition (Dickson Adom, Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology, 25 January 2018). Positive greed can be defined as greed that
can be beneficial in some situations. One advantage is that it serves as a type of motivation. Greed
motivates people to strive for greater social and economic outcomes than they now have (Anna
Chui, 12 January 2021).
<NB Note: If your inclination here is to say that having done this module you have decided that greed is
indeed good, then by all means go ahead and defend this. However, if you tell us that the course
material has told you that greed is good, then you are very likely to fail this module. The course material
quite explicitly states that greed is not good. If you think that the material says otherwise, then you
need to go and read the material again.>
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SUS1501 – Sustainability and Greed
Student Number:
Date:
Teaching Assistant Name: Q ISMAIL SOOLIMAN
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 the additional resources tool
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. (If you have forgotten your
original choices, you can find these as in the Self Assessments tool. For Assignment 1 click on
“Feedback” and you will find your choices).
• Jot down AT LEAST 10 notes reflecting on your choices for any of the 20 questions.
• Each note must be AT LEAST 100 words long
• Write your conclusion of AT LEAST 500 words
• Your notes and conclusion should include references to the theory that we covered.
• 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.
,3Px4620201KHP6Xr#000Twc9q
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST – i.e. if you do not fulfill ALL of these you will NOT pass this
portfolio:
1. Correct template version used X
2. All 20 multiple choice question original answers captured X
3. All 20 multiple choice question answers now captured X
4. Notes for AT LEAST ten (10) questions X
5. Each note AT LEAST 100 words long X
6. Conclusion present X
7. Conclusion AT LEAST 500 words long X
3Px46KHP6Xr#115Twc9q
, 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. “Greed is good” My personal opinion of what should be done, is most closely described by:
a. It’s not good or bad. It’s just how things are.
b. Absolutely! If it wasn’t for greed we would never achieve anything.
c. I’m not sure. Sometimes I think that it’s good. At other times I think that it’s bad.
d. It depends on how you define “greed”.
e. Absolutely not! Greed is bad. It leads to much pain and suffering.
Choice now: D
Choice in assignment 1: B
Notes: Well that depends on how you define greed, personally I’d say there’s negative greed and
there’s positive greed. A negative greed, in my opinion, is a greed that consumes a person, causing
him or her to waste away as a result of the heat of the terrible attributes it causes one to develop,
such as selfishness, wrath, jealously, and unhealthy competition (Dickson Adom, Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology, 25 January 2018). Positive greed can be defined as greed that
can be beneficial in some situations. One advantage is that it serves as a type of motivation. Greed
motivates people to strive for greater social and economic outcomes than they now have (Anna
Chui, 12 January 2021).
<NB Note: If your inclination here is to say that having done this module you have decided that greed is
indeed good, then by all means go ahead and defend this. However, if you tell us that the course
material has told you that greed is good, then you are very likely to fail this module. The course material
quite explicitly states that greed is not good. If you think that the material says otherwise, then you
need to go and read the material again.>
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