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#10 (My choice) Collier's "Adult Crime, Adult Time"

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#10 (My choice) Collier's "Adult Crime, Adult Time"

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Although crimes committed by juveniles have increased by sixty percent since 1984 I don't think they should be tried as adults. Committing a crime period can be scary whether it's from a juvenile or an adult, but putting them in prison with adults don't seem to be the right answer to me.  If they think the juvenile is committing the crime "knowingly" then they should be put in a place for only juveniles. Like they said "they are doing whats in the best interest for the kid" is putting them in prison with adults in the best interest for the kid?

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College can be extremely stressful especially if it's your first year of college or even your last semester and you're trying to finish those last few classes up. It's good to find someone to vent to and talk to when you are stressed, but if I was in that situation I am not sure who I would write to.

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To read about the two different cultures between Hispanic's and Anglo-American people was very interesting. I think any two cultures like this that show the similarites and differences could help show other cultures that it's okay to be accepting.

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Siegel explains that men are replacing one trophy wife for another. Some men have different priorities than others and overtime as things tend to change and people tend to change so does society and the way people think now. I think you should be with someone because you love them not because they make more money than you or vise versa.

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In white Lies, Bok says, "Those who begin with white lies can come to resort to more frequent and more serious ones." Lying period can only result in a bad situation because to lie once one has to lie again to cover the first lie up. No one wants to be freinds with someone who lies or even hire someone who is dishonest. Why "White Lie"?

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In some ways people tend to make things more complex than we should. Even reading this issue was even a little complex. It took me a few times to read before I understood what the author was trying to explain. We shouldn't have to make things more complex than what they already are. Sometimes doing so we make it harder on ourselves.

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#3 NY Times Editorial's "Should Juvenile Offenders be Tried in Adult Courts?"

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#3 NY Times Editorial's "Should Juvenile Offenders be Tried in Adult Courts?"

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This issue is very sad and can open many peoples eyes. Sending a 12 year old or 14 year old to prison can be very scary. Children shouldn't be sent to prison with adults it could cause them to act out even more. The children should be helped, not thrown away with the adults who have done worse in this world and who know better. These children have some sake of saving.

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"Rather than discourage lifeosuction, perhaps, we should encourage people to subract even more of themselves from public view than they currently do." Why encourage people to subract more of themselves from pulblic view? People should be able to be open however they want. It's their life anyways.

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Posting anonymous comments about someone on the internet can result in a bad situation, even dangerous in some cases. I know I wouldn't want my information on the internent just because someone thought I dressed funny. I mean who's to say that their opionion is true in the first place.

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It used to be the worst you could get for a petty wrong in public was a rude look. But now the most trivial missteps by ordinary folks are increasingly ripe for exposure online.

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#1 Wiens' "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar"

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#1 Wiens' "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar"

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Wiens' article made me realize how important it is to use correct grammar even if it's something small such as sending a text message. It also made me realize that details are everything, if words are all you have to represent you as a person. This article has definitely made me want to pay more attention to my grammar, especially if it can cost me a job.

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If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort you from the building.

Some might call my approach to grammar extreme, but I prefer Lynne Truss's more cuddly phraseology: I am a grammar "stickler." And, like Truss - author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves - I have a "zero tolerance approach" to grammar mistakes that make people look stupid.

Now, Truss and I disagree on what it means to have "zero tolerance." She thinks that people who mix up their itses "deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave," while I just think they deserve to be passed over for a job - even if they are otherwise qualified for the position.

Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.), if job hopefuls can't distinguish between "to" and "too," their applications go into the bin.

Of course, we write for a living. iFixit.com is the world's largest online repair manual, and Dozuki helps companies write their own technical documentation, like paperless work instructions and step-by-step user manuals. So, it makes sense that we've made a preemptive strike against groan-worthy grammar errors.

But grammar is relevant for all companies. Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn't make grammar unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet. In blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites, your words are all you have. They are a projection of you in your physical absence. And, for better or worse, people judge you if you can't tell the difference between their, there, and they're.

Good grammar makes good business sense - and not just when it comes to hiring writers. Writing isn't in the official job description of most people in our office. Still, we give our grammar test to everybody, including our salespeople, our operations staff, and our programmers.

On the face of it, my zero tolerance approach to grammar errors might seem a little unfair. After all, grammar has nothing to do with job performance, or creativity, or intelligence, right?

Wrong. If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use "it's," then that's not a learning curve I'm comfortable with. So, even in this hyper-competitive market, I will pass on a great programmer who cannot write.

Grammar signifies more than just a person's ability to remember high school English. I've found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing - like stocking shelves or labeling parts.

In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how they construct written language also tend to pay a lot more attention to how they code. You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers are more than just code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend Donald Knuth they are "essayists who work with traditional aesthetic and literary forms." The point: programming should be easily understood by real human beings - not just computers.

And just like good writing and good grammar, when it comes to programming, the devil's in the details. In fact, when it comes to my whole business, details are everything.

I hire people who care about those details. Applicants who don't think writing is important are likely to think lots of other (important) things also aren't important. And I guarantee that even if other companies aren't issuing grammar tests, they pay attention to sloppy mistakes on résumés. After all, sloppy is as sloppy does.

That's why I grammar test people who walk in the door looking for a job. Grammar is my litmus test. All applicants say they're detail-oriented; I just make my employees prove it.

Read the summary of the #HBRchat on Twitter based on this blog post.

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I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why.

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If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it [...]