Nostradamus
Essays

Strathern, O. (2007). A Brief History of the Future. New York: Carroll and Graf.

If you stand before a mountain, it is almost impossible not to be moved by the majesty of it. Standing tall, having been there for eons, it is slightly worn down from its original heights, but it still reaches high into…

The following is a 5 page poem modeled after the approach in such works as Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. The poem also incorporates some of the rhythmic strategies employed in modern hip hop with particular reference to the work of Kid Cudi. The poem contains references to Plato, Aristotle, Dante and Nostradomus.

The options for financing President Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security might well be as unworkable as his plan to cut taxes five times, while increasing defense spending by starting two wars in the…

Fewer historical figures are as hotly debated as Michel Nostradamus, a 16th century physician who issued a series of four-line poems that seemed to predict subsequent major world events.

I would say to anyone who was depressed, confused or in despair about the condition of the world today that Montaigne lived in a world like ours, and probably even worse, and that most people in his time believed that The End was near. This was also the era that Nostradamus was writing and making his famous predictions, and he was only the best known of the astrologers and prophets who were running around at that time. He has been most beneficial to those who expect the world to end in December 2012, although he did not actually make such a specific prediction anywhere as far as I know.

Subsequent to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the world did change. Prior to the attacks, the term 'terrorism' was not as frequently used by the media world over, the way we are…