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Personal Statement: Interest In Business, Football, And After School Activities

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Interest in Business, Football, and After School Activities
I am a high school student with who is primarily interested in pursuing business, football, and other after school activities such as book club. Fundamentally, I believe that all students should pursue business to develop a general understanding of how the economy works. According to research studies conducted by Manning, Kinzie & Schuh, (2015), business studies are not only valuable for students in business class, but for the success of the whole country. In this account, business education has enabled me develop essential business skills such as entrepreneurship, which has improved my self-reliance skills. Moreover, I would like to start a major corporation in the future and help reduce employment in the country. Statistical data provided by Christensen, Bartman & Bever (2016) indicate that 70% of high school students wish to start their own businesses in the future. Nonetheless, only 15% of these students believe that they have the basic skills and knowledge to create their own businesses. …show more content…

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