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    American History: Our Hope for the Future Before we go into any specifics, let’s talk about what hope is. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for certain things to happen within oneself. This, however, is just a definition given in a dictionary which your brain understands. We all know that hope means something much more in our hearts. The hearts of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luther King, Jr. has definitely found the meaning of hope in their

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    their own fantasy and desire scientific improvement. For example, the movie Back to the Future is recently reviewed by portraying October 2015. Even though the 2015 in the movie and the reality was not exactly the same, it showed people how much development we have been achieved until now. In addition, the devices shown in the movie is still making people fascinated and alluding more possibility in the future innovation. The science fiction describes what the public imagine, leading to increasing

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    I once found a letter that I wrote in the fifth grade that was addressed to my future self. In that letter, I told myself various pieces of advice that I thought were essential to my well-being as a teenager. Upon looking back at what I wrote to my future self, I realized that I had a ticket to board onto a time machine and that I was ready to visit the person I was back in fifth grade. I told the time-machine to transport me to the August before I moved away from my childhood home. After boarding

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    The Mystery of Nostradamus What if predicting the future became reality? Nostradamus said he could predict the future with the help of an angelic spirit. He also had the help of nutmeg, he claimed to receive visions while meditating over a brass bowl of water. He practiced this ritual often. The mystery behind Nostradamus can be Summarized into two theories: He predicted the future, and He didn’t predict the future. First, Nostradamus was a man that continues to intrigue people from all over. Nostradamus

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    past by, it is easy to look back at history and the way things were done and make a judgment on those events and the people of that era. Kwame Anthony Appiah’s article “How Will the Future Judge Us,” is an article about several events that Americans are doing now that might not seem like reasonable practices to the future generations. This article is eye-opening because it makes people take into consideration the things that have happened in history, things that are happing in society today, and what

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    who seemed to predict the future. He became famous after he published his first book containing his predictions on the events that would happen in the future. One of Nostradamus’s prophecies told the harsh end of King Henry II. Even now, people are not sure how he was able to foretell such events and still are trying to figure out how he did it. This mystery behind Nostradamus can be summed up into two conspiracies: he did predict the future and he didn’t predict the future. Nostradamus has bewildered

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    have a right to raise their child how they see fit since they should have the child’s best interest in mind and have the ability to make those decisions. In the essay “The Child’s Right to an Open Future,” Claudia Mills provides a rebuttal to Joel Feinberg’s essay on “The Child’s Right to an Open Future.” She believes “that it is

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    of Nostradamus pops up.Nostradamus and his prophecies gave him popularity throughout his lifetime.Nostradamus wrote his predictions in an almanac.No one knows if Nostradamus could have actually predicted the future. There are many people who say they read the future but there is always a person who shocks the world Nostradamus was born December 14,1503 in Saint-Remy, France. Secondly Nostradamus was a french astrologer and physician. Nostradamus prophecies lates gave him

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    ratio, and regression analysis methods. Trend Analysis: Essentially, trend analysis, looks at previous employment levels against business variables to predict future staffing requirements. All the more, trend analysis uses historical data for forecasting future staffing needs. Likewise, trend analysis creates a relationship between past and future staffing needs. Trend analysis is appliedwhen organizations have data mostly on historical staffing levels with less detailed information on specific predictions

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    The Future of life, written by Edward O. Wilson, developed a novel with a plethora of ideas, theories, and problems within in our world today. Wilson breaks down concepts into greater context which gives the reader in depth description to show the reader a better outlook on issues in our society today. The author lectures in chapter two, The Bottleneck on how and why the world is overpopulated. Wilson gives great insight, facts and solutions that will lead into what the future looks like for an overpopulated

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