Part 1 of Essay
Fire or Ice? How Will the World End? Some say the world will end in fire, some in ice. Some have even gone as far as to say the world already has ended - once in fire and once in ice. With the coming of the new millennium, hordes of paranoid doomsday "prophets" jam our newspapers, radios and TV's to warn us of an impend ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... far as a time that the end is supposed to come, many of the prophecies focus around the new millennium; especially between 1999 and 2280. There is a larger concentration involved in the 2010-2020 range. For one, the majority of psychics claim they cannot see past 2012 in the future. Also, the Mayan calendar, recently revered as a major clue holder, ends on December 21st, 2012. The Mayans believe time on earth will roll over into "fourth dimensional time" in 2013, following the end of civilization. Anothe ....