D13, HW1, Grammar Assignment

I chose to learn more about hyphens from The Owl at Purdue. I learned a few things I did not know about them, for instance, you "use a hyphen to join two or more words serving as a single adjective before a noun." Using this, I revised 2 paragraphs adding hyphens when possible. Some places that could have used one though, I still did not because I did not want to have an overkill.

According to the IC3, 4447 of those complaints were in Arizona alone in 2006. Two-percent were identity-theft alone. However, 71.1% of those reported a monetary-loss, with a medium-loss of $1374.19. Other crimes such as credit card fraud and check fraud had higher numbers, but usually have some sort of correlation with identity-theft after excessive use.

Some agree the government needs to step-up and help fight the battle of identity-theft over the Internet. However, there are also a group of people who think the government should be left out of the Internet all together because it is an invasion of their privacy. If the government steps in to protect the internet, they will have to protect more than just identity-theft. For instance, if the government were to lock-down websites so they had to have a special key issued out by the government to be able to sell products online, this would pose a threat as to who is the one responsible for whether one business is truly more legit than another.