Write a paper on the book "Less than Human" : Why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others by David Livingstone Smith. Use the questions below to form your response.  1)      Define what racism is? How/why does it emerge? Use at least 3 quotes from text. 2)      What is it about the human mind that enables us to conceive of people as less than human?  -          What is second order thinking? Provide one example of you have used this kind of thinking.  -          How do you think dehumanization was part of the caging of brown refugee children at our border? Be clear and specific. Use at least 2 quotes from the text to support your position. 3)      What can be done about dehumanization? What do you plan to do/not do and why?  4)      Is the process of dehumanizing others a universal condition or is ti culturally or historical specific? Stated differently, are all hardwired biologically to dehumanize people? Or is it just a politically or culturally acquired? 5)      Select a chapter from the text that you reacted most strongly too. Please provide a summary of  that chapter and its main points.   6)     In class, we have discussed racism as "a community  of "good" and "ordinary" people in collective denial." What does that statement mean to you? Use one example from the class (films, lecturer, On the Media, readings) to support your answer.  5)      What are the 3 most important personal take-aways from the section of the class dealing with racism? -          Be specific

"Ignorantia juris non excusat" is Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not". Building and marketing an e-commerce business will stretch beyond the US borders; that is a great advantage. With that advantage comes responsibility. You must be knowledgeable about international laws and understand which ones impact you and your business. You will need to understand what concerns might be raised and have an action plan to address those concerns.This week for your assignment, you will create a plan for protecting your business against intellectual property violations. For your plan, you will need to include the following:Describe how you would avoid violating copyright and intellectual property laws for the material used on your website.Discuss your plan for ensuring that your ideas and intellectual property are protected.Discuss how you will protect the privacy of your customers. What privacy protection features will you include when building your website?Below are guidelines for writing your paper:Your paper should be at least 2 pages long and include at least 2 scholarly references from the Rasmussen Online Library. Scholarly sources include academic or peer-reviewed journal articles.Integrate your own thoughts and ideas and connect them with research support using citations from scholarly references. Demonstrate your integration of research by including APA formatted in-text citations at key points throughout your paper.Include an APA formatted title page and reference page.

For this forum, you will be developing a PESTEL analysis that would be helpful to a business or organization that is considering manufacturing and marketing products to ultimate consumers that make use of insect protein.  Don’t worry about the nature of the product at this point – it could be baked goods, pasta, or anything made of flour.  It could be something manufactured as an alternative to beef, pork or other forms of protein.  For now, take a broad prospective.  In later forums, you will develop your idea for a particular product or business and how you will market the item.  So try to gather some information that will help you in that regard. It would first be beneficial to begin my learning more about entomogaphy.  As you conduct your research and read various articles on the subject, look for facts and trends that are relevant to the PESTEL analysis and which fall under the headings of political, economic, socio-cultural demographic, technological and environmental (natural resource) headings.  Also consider trends or events that might impact existing products for which insect protein might be considered a substitute (e.g, traditional flour, beef, pork, fish, etc.)   You can also find information my researching topics such as “economic trends” and then justifying in your paper which trends are relevant to the situation. Your goal is to identify key facts, events and trends in these environments that may impact the marketing of products made (at least in part) from insect protein to U.S. citizens, especially those trends/events that may present key opportunities or threats.   If done well, your PESTEL analysis should also help you in potentially identifying which insect-protein based product concepts are most viable.  Your forum response will be heavily research-based.  You MUST cite the sources of information found within the body of your post, and you MUST cite the full reference for each source at the end of the post (under the heading “References”).  Use APA format for all citations.  Every paragraph must contain at least one citation. The Assignment (Refer to the Module 2 Readings in Marketing Strategy as you examine the political, economic, socio-cultural demographic, technological, environmental (natural resources) and legal environments.  The following sections provide a list of questions to help guide your research.  Try to find as much of the information as possible.  Not all portions of each question below may be relevant; the questions shown are ones that should be considered for ANY type of product or business when conducting a PESTEL analysis.  So don’t get frustrated, but at the same time, make a good faith effort to find information.  Sociocultural and Demographic Trends Question 1:  Identify key trends, events, changes, or facts related to demographics, values, attitudes, activities and lifestyles that may impact the consumption or marketing of insect-based food products.  The noted information may help to suggest potential product opportunities.  Also consider trends, events, attitudes, values and factors that may impact the industry in the future, potential product concepts in the future, or the viability of product markets in the future. It is very likely that you will find multiple trends or events in this environment that are highly relevant to food consumption (and the consumption of insect protein in particular) or the marketing of food products, as well lifestyle activities / trends that may provide ideas for various product concepts.  See what you can find out about the people in the U.S. who consume insect protein as part of their diet.  Information on potential target markets is very helpful when evaluating potential opportunities. Think about how the information you learn may impact a potential product’s characteristics (features, benefits, branding), pricing (value), distribution and supply chain (convenience, efficiency), promotion (message content, delivery, feedback), and people (human resource issues).  Some of this information can be helpful in eliminating non-viable product concepts in a future discussion forum.  Technological trends and improvements Question 2:  How have, or how might, recent technological advances affect potential customers concerning needs/wants/preferences, access to information, the timing and location of purchase decisions, the ability to compare competing product offerings, or the ability to conduct transactions more effectively and efficiently (in the context of potential product offerings)?  Identify any future technologies that may threaten the product's viability or its marketing efforts.  How have recent technological advances affected the manufacturing, process efficiency, distribution, supply chain effectiveness, promotion, cost-reduction, or customer relationship management? Economic conditions, events, and trends Question 3:  Discuss factors and trends related to interest rates, consumer confidence, the level of disposable income, unemployment rates and consumer’s purchasing power, specifically from the perspective of the consumer food industry, or insect-protein products in general.  Specific emphasis should be placed on how various economic conditions impact potential customers’ ability to purchase food products, alternate forms of protein, luxury food product. Any information pertaining to demand for insect-related products of various types would be excellent information to add to this section.  Political, Legal and Natural Environment Resource Trends and Events Question 4: Identify any events or outcomes tied to the political, legal or natural resource environments that create opportunities, or threaten efforts to market the insect-based food products in the U.S. now or in the future. Important regulatory issues govern the food industry and should be discussed.  Also consider political activities affecting the product or the industry (domestic or foreign), potential regulations favored by elected officials, industry (lobbying) groups or political action committees, and consumer advocacy groups.  Tax policies and subsidies that impact the product, the industry, or its competitors should also be considered.  Changes in trade restrictions, tariffs, and government stability abroad are an important consideration for products that compete in a global arena or which are impacted by exports or substitute products. For example, consider the stability of governments.  The war between the Ukraine and Russia is projected to impact food costs, because these two countries produce 30% of the wheat that is exported.  (Find a source to document this information and learn more through additional research).  What will happen to the cost of wheat, and correspondingly to the cost of traditional flour?  Could this present an opportunity for marketers of cricket flour, or products that use cricket protein?