Clockmaker

55). Personally, I do believe in fate rather similarly. I believe that if we do bad things we are more susceptible to illness and harmful occurrences but I don't believe God purposely hurts us in any way. Comparably to Deism, I think of him as a clockmaker. Accordingly so, God gives us the opportunities to do either good or bad which will determine our fate, like whether we go to heaven or hell. But in some cases it isn't as harsh. For example, he gives us the opportunity to wash our hands but…

The announcement in the paper states that Hector Bowen, better known as Prospero the Enchanter, entertainer and stage magician of great renown, died of heart failure in his home on the fifteenth of March. It goes on about his work and his legacy for some time. The age listed is erroneous, a detail few readers perceive. A short paragraph at the end of the obituary mentions that he is survived by a daughter of seventeen years of age, a Miss Celia Bowen. This number is more accurate. There is also…

Candide is the story about a boy, who falls in love, ends up far from his lover, before finally reuniting with her, after various trials, losses and triumphs. But it’s a little more complicated than that: Candide is the story about a boy who rejects the thought process he’s always stood behind, rejects the opposite of said process, reunites with his family of sorts, and establishes a new school of thought. Voltaire’s Candide is a satirical work, criticizing both the optimistic and pessimistic…

composed of five. In this particular poem, Dickinson seems to depict death as a powerful enemy for men, She begins by talking about a clock whose handles just stopped, clearly referring to a men’s heart stopping. Then she talks about a skillful clockmaker whom cannot make the clock work again, she is referring to a doctor that tries to revive a person without any luck. Depicting that at the time that the clock finally stops, so will the heart of the…

Gagnon appears to be a little more on the deistic side, or the belief that God is a clockmaker and set the universe in motion and no longer interact with his creation. This becomes apparent when he talks about the idea of “pray the gay away” as not a solution to the issue. Prayer, in the theistic perspective, is the Christians direct communication…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland on June 28, 1712, the second child to his father, Isaac Rousseau, and his mother, Suzanne Bernard. His mother died only nine days after his birth, so he grew up primarily under the care of his father, a clockmaker, until the age of 10. Jean-Jacque and his father shared a love Greek and Roman literature, which they bonded over for the first many years of Rousseau’s life. However, by the time Jean-Jacques reached ten years of age, his father…

When one hears the name “Ethan Allen”, several images may come to mind. Perhaps the most common, although a little disappointing, is of course the furniture company. Ask a Vermonter, or a scholar of American history, and they might respond with “forts, patriots, green mountain boys” - all allusions to this man’s illustrious past. A past wrought with gunpowder and bloodshed, and a lifetime spent questioning just about every semblance of authority that Allen encountered. Perhaps what is most…