Fall 2012 Grades

Diazepam: A Literature Review of the Primitive Benzodiazepine

The assignment: research a drug and describe the history, chemistry, indications, treatment effects, side effects. An emphasis on comparing the drug to other indicated drugs was also assigned.

Eliyahu N. Kassorla

Organic Chemistry I – Laboratory

Dr. Kuga

Diazepam: A Literature Review of the Primitive Benzodiazepine

Introduction

Diazepam is a benzodiazepine, a class of drugs that has anxiolytic, sedative, antispasmodic, and anticonvulsant properties. Benzodiazepines superseded the class of drugs called the barbiturates, as well as the carbamates, since their safety is greater and therapeutic range is wider. While there are side effects to the benzodiazepines, the risks are often weighed against their clinical efficacy in treatment and management of indicated disorders.

Summer Grades - That Much Closer to That Second Bachelors!

Subject	Course	Course Title	Campus	Final Grade	Attempted	Earned	GPAHours	Quality Points
BIO	2710	Human Anatomy and Physiology 2	Boston, Main	A-	3.000	3.000	3.000	11.001
BIO	2711	Laboratory for Human Anatomy and Physiology 2	Boston, Main	A-	1.000	1.000	1.000	3.667
BIO	2810	Human Anatomy and Physiology 3	Boston, Main	A	3.000	3.000	3.000	12.000
BIO	2811	Laboratory for Human Anatomy and Physiology 3	Boston, Main	B+	1.000	1.000	1.000	3.333

Undergraduate Summary

		Attempted	Earned	GPA Hours	Quality Points	GPA
Current Term:		8.000	8.000	8.000	30.001	3.750
Cumulative:		29.000	25.000	25.000	87.667	3.507
Transfer:		80.040	80.040	0.000	0.000	0.000
Overall:		109.040	105.040	25.000	87.667	3.507

From the Archives: Rational Basis for Morality

Another Installment of "Blast From The Past". This paper comes from April, 2008.

Eliyahu N. Kassorla

Human Nature and the Social Order II

Dr. Orme

Rational Basis for Morality

            ”וַיְדַבֵּר אֱלֹהִים, אֵת כָּל-הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה לֵאמֹר“…

“And God spoke all these words, saying…”[1] That is how we all remember reading about how the Ten Commandments were given. The divine revelation, with all of the Israelites circled around Mount Sinai, and the basis for Judeo-Christian morality, spoken by God himself as a rule of law, an idealistic vision of how we should behave. Then the Israelites made a golden calf to worship, and smiting ensued. The central question is whether our morality comes from divine law or whether humans do these anyways.

“Thou shalt not commit homicide,” reads the sixth commandment. It is a very specific statement against intentional, premeditated, cold-blooded, savage killing. Is it the reason that we do not kill and murder? Frankly, early civilizations with complex religious structures had similar judicial codes forbidding the same practices that many of the Ten Commandments also prohibit. So the Judeo-Christian view that morality comes from the revelation is untenable. Further, considering that the Old Testament contains a total of six hundred and thirteen laws, and people are not overly concerned with Jubilee years or the prohibition against harvesting the corners of their fields, the fact that a law comes from on high is coincidental at best.

From the Archives: Cognitive and Neurobiological Models of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

SALUTE

The Graduation of Eliyahu N Kassorla

Art Project - A Welcome Diversion

The assignment: Create a pattern



As anyone who knows me knows, I am no artist. But this pattern works. Or as my art teacher said, "This is a very strong pattern"

On the Value of Currency, and the Policies of the European Central Bank

On the Trading of Currencies as Commodities

The value of international currency is defined as the faith or speculation that the value of currency will increase. When the Western European countries maintained their own currency, usually indexing them to either a solid material, such as gold or silver, or to other currencies, their central banking policy was focused on domestic growth, as well as protecting against inflation and deflation. The consolidation of the various European currencies has resulted in the fate of one nation, such as France, becoming associated with that of a much poorer nation, such as Bulgaria.

            The recent economic crisis, beginning in 2007 and continuing through 2010, has been at least partially attributed to the values of currency. Jörg Bibow, in the article Europe’s Quest for Economic Stability, discusses key decision points of the European Central Bank (ECB). Bibow, writing in 2006, explains both strengths and weaknesses of the Eurozone banking model. The primary objective of the ECB, according to its founding charter, is to maintain price stability across the Eurozone.[1] Price stability, Bibow states, is “essentially a piece of Bundesbank nostalgia,” referring to the former German bank charged with maintaining price parity, and coordinating the now defunct erratic European Monetary System, from which the ECB’s framework is largely derived.[2]

As a matter of general policy, the ECB does not attempt any other ends aside from their primary mandate, only fostering interest in economic development and employment when the ECB views that engaging these ends will not interfere with price stability.[3]

On Adam Smith, the Inevitability of the Market Economy, and the Wealth of Nations

Eliyahu N Kassorla
Economic Principles of Adam Smith
W. Lesperance, Ph.D.

On Adam Smith, the Inevitability of the Market Economy, and the Wealth of Nations

Introduction
            Adam Smith, in Wealth of Nations, attempts to model ideal economic development using observations of history and European development.  Under the Wealth of Nations model, labor is an exchange for goods or services, which is then converted to currency as a proxy for direct barter. Smith further describes the progression from agricultural beginnings to market economies, and the resultant social organization that is causal to market forces – the differences between pastures and cities, wealth and poverty, and state and empire. The model of societal development that Smith advances is used to explain economic growth and trade relations. Smith, then, applies his findings of trade relations to those between the British Empire and the American colonies, leading him to the conclusion that overseas colonies are expensive, and are better served as independent nations. Smith’s works still have many vital lessons to teach both nations and international organizations, even after nearly two and a half centuries.