Blake Howard Research Paper

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Life has its ups and downs but what happens when it seems like life has no ups? Mother Nature just keeps giving out roads that only lead downhill. The only breaks that are given are when the downhill slopes are not as steep as all of the rest. What does one do when they are put into a situation like this? Some will do whatever is possible to get on an uphill slope. This is the case for Blake Howards. Blake’s life has sent him crashing downhill and he is going to do whatever possible to recover. Blake is walking through his hometown of San Diego, California. He looks around to see nothing but abandoned warehouses and rundown homes. Only the people who cannot afford to live anything close to a decent life seek residency here. Blake turns left …show more content…
Blake walked into the manufacturing company’s office which he worked as the head of the accounting department. There were people from the IRS everywhere. Blake’s boss was being arrested for embezzlement. The other person that was on the arrest warrant was the head of accounting, Blake Howards. After a long court battle that sucked up much of the Howards’ savings, Blake was finally proven not guilty. That was not the end of it. Even though Blake Howards was a very accomplished accountant, no business even dared to take interest in him after the scandal that he had nothing to do with. Even with his college degree Blake could not find work in San Diego and did not have the money, or the heart, to uproot his entire …show more content…
Blake sits in the waiting room at the state penitentiary that he is kept at. He goes up to the window to see his two girls on the other side of the glass. They put their hands up to the glass like they do every other Sunday. Blake talks to them through the black phone that hangs on the wall because that’s the only communication they are allowed. Blake was set up. He was framed as a dealer in a business that he knew nothing about. Jared was the one that sacrificed him to reduce his own sentence. No matter how much Blake Howards tried to change the direction of the slopes that he was put on, he would always be going downhill. In two years he would be with his girls again, but even then, he would be in an even worse situation than he was