Paper #5
| Paper #5 was to be a beginning to our main research paper, Paper #6. Using the information we received from Paper #4 we were to create a three to five page report of our subject. As I have previously said in Paper #4 the topic I research was about the legalization of alcohol on the Navajo Nation. Thus, in Paper #5 I argued why the Navajo Nation should legalized alcohol on the Navajo Nation. I choose my topic because in high school one of my classes had a debate about this same subject. At the time I too was against the legalization; however, after hearing all the benefits that are to be gained from legalization I choose to be for it. Some of the benefits there are for the legalization of alcohol is that the nation can have another economic income, the Navajo Nation can control the selling and distribution of alcohol on the nation, cut down on bootlegging, and help save more lives by shortening the distance between consumer and seller. | ||
| As far as writing skills go this paper just helped me practice what I have already have known about research papers. However, this paper was not as formal as the research papers I have done in the past. This paper more express my feelings about legalization of alcohol on the Navajo Nation. | ||
| Here are a few excerpts from my Paper #5: | ||
| "In this paper I will argue that the Navajo Nation should legalize alcohol on the Navajo reservation. If the nation were to legalize alcohol on the reservation then the nation could gain control over profits and distribution of alcohol. More over, they could minimize the illegal bootlegging that is taking place on the Navajo Nation today. Currently the Navajo Nation upholds the laws of prohibition and by doing so they are missing out on a great money market economy. " | ||
| "The danger about this [bootlegging] is that it becomes a health problem for the natives because no one knows what those bootleggers are putting into the drinks. A staff writer from the Albuquerque Journal, Leslie Linthicum did an article about the types of drinks bootleggers were crafting. One such drink which is the most common is an “Ocean”, a mixture of hairspray and water. Linthicum’s article was about how “alcoholics desperate for a buzz resort to drinking a host of legal substances” (Linthicum). That’s right, “legal substances” this means that the natives on the reservation will ingest such things as “rubbing alcohol mixed with fruit juice, straight vanilla extract, Lysol and, in extreme cases, battery acid” (Linthicum)." | ||
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