Only a Prank Call Prankdial.com is a website that offers a wide array of services to its users. It includes applications such as Fake Caller ID‚ the Ring Prank‚ Auto Breakup‚ and many others. Among the most controversial of its services is Evil Operator. This program can be accessed and used by anyone in the world. The idea of the idea of making a prank phone call through the internet has had wide appeal. The program allows you to enter in two different telephone numbers into the site. Before
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The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson is about an elderly lady named Ms Strangeworth‚ who believes that it is her responsibility to keep her town from ‘evil’. Ms Strangeworth tends to her roses daily‚ making sure they are as perfect as they could be. However never letting anyone take them; saying they “belong on Pleasant Street”. After completing a few errands‚ Ms Strangeworth finds herself in a conversation with Helen Crane: a newly wed woman with a six-month old baby. They speak a few minutes
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Society as a whole can be evil or kind‚ but people show evilness in modern society more often than kindness. Everyone has a decision whether or not to do something evil‚ but people choose to do the wrong things because they have a thoughtlessness attitude‚ and their inconsequential feelings of others. People display evilness in modern society and examples include the Newtown shooting‚ the suicide of Tyler Clementi and the Ponzi scheme Bernard Madoff started. School shootings are
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John Locke‚ also a philosopher and political theorist of the 17th century‚ would contend to the idea or theory of Rene Descartes. Locke would say that human knowledge is not natural or inborn; it is rather developed and learned. He indicates that not all human people have this mental knowledge already in their minds. For instance‚ people who are mentally ill do not have these “innate ideas” in their minds. Since there are abnormalities in their brain circuits they cannot think properly like a normal
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writings of Plato and Descartes share many similar theories on knowledge and being absolute certain about something. For instance‚ in the movie the Matrix Neo has no clue that everything he is experiencing is a dream. But when he is told the truth his knowledge grows which is exactly what Plato proclaims in his writing to the republic. He claims that as the prisoners who have been chained in the cave since childhood begin to ascend their knowledge expands. And in Descartes writing the meditation
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1. Descartes’ conceivability argument is that if something is conceivable. Then it is logically possible to exist and that if something is not conceivable‚ then it is not logically possible. Through this reasoning Descartes’ states that since it is possible to conceive that he could exist mentally without a physical form‚ it is therefore logically possible that one could exist without their body. Descartes’ logic‚ though valid in its presentation‚ does not provide the reasoning that perhaps‚ at least
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For Descartes‚ you cannot be sure of one’s existence or its reality so first you must doubt it. But as we see through his work Meditations on First Philosophy‚ we are presented by his loosening grip on his own sanity since he had continued to doubt and never accepting to believe in other realities but only is certain of his own existence. Descartes gave the awareness that to doubt is to know and to know is to doubt. He had known that he exists because he can think‚ and he cannot doubt that he can
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Management Genius: Peter F. Drucker By Md. Faruk Hossain (Faruk) Dear reader‚ there are many kinds of writings‚ many kinds of posts‚ that depict different kinds of tips‚ suggestions‚ etc. But I will try here to post something different‚ because there are really something differences to write. Actually sometimes there exist lots of geniuses in our invisibility‚ but we don’t know well about them though we did hear a little or knew the names of them. Today I will write about one of the best Management
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There are three standard ways in which we apply the word “know”: 1. I know who a person is‚ 2. I know how to do something‚ and 3. I know that something is the way it is. The third of the previously listed kinds of knowledge is the propositional case: “I know that” is followed by a proposition. For example‚ “I know that I am now typing up my précis”. Hospers discusses the propositional condition of knowledge. There are three essential components to propositional knowledge: truth‚ belief‚ and
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The evils of idleness Human beings have become the rulers of this planet. We have spread ourselves to all parts of the world. Whether it is the desert‚ mountains‚ forest‚ oceans or caves‚ humans have been able to live and prosper in all these conditions. The reason for this is our ability to adapt to our environment. It is the main difference between humans and other animals on the earth. So if we are to continue to survive and prosper‚ we must continue to adapt. For this we cannot be idle. To
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