John D Rockefeller

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn accepted success.” -John D. Rockefeller

While searching the internet in search for our History Day topic we came across the Industrial Revolution and soon found that the Industrial Revolution had a lot of dependable sources to choose and pick from, making it a felicitous topic for our project . When suggesting if the Industrial Revolution was a good theme to surround our project on our teacher proposed we narrow it down so that we would have something specific to talk about. As we were narrowing our topic down we soon found Rockefeller, a tycoon who prevailed in the oil industry. After more research on John D. Rockefeller my group and I decided …show more content…
After a few days of online research we went to a University library to try to obtain information from a different type of media, there we found out that Rockefeller helped in finding a vaccine to cure yellow fever. We also found out about who his adversaries were and what his process was in taking over other oil companies. Then we went back to online research and attempted to get an interview. Once that was done we searched YouTube and found a recorded interview of Ron Chernow, one of the people who wrote a book on John D. Rockefeller titled, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
After some evaluation on which format would be the best to share our information on, we later agreed on an exhibit after finding that other configurations could be a prejudice to our project. By using an exhibit we would gain the privilege of posting our information anywhere we would like in different ways that would give a sensory appeal. And since we are a group, an exhibit would be an optimum choice since we get to add ideas from each member adding creativity to our project. In addition to this, expenses would be equally shared among