Rockefeller Foundation

239. The Crossing. Bill Viola. 1996 C.E. video/sound installation. Bill Viola’s The Crossing, created in 1996 C.E., is a room-sized video installation that is made up of a large two-sided screen onto which two video sequences are projected at the same time. They each open in the same fashion: having a male figure walking slowly towards the front of the camera, his body dramatically lit from above, appearing to glow against the black background. After some time, he pauses and stands completely…

As a volunteer intern in the Online Services department of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), I focused on collecting pertinent articles from the old children's website and presenting them in a kid-friendly manner on the redesigned JDRF Kids Online. As I helped rebuild a resource I had often used before, I was drawn to the hundreds…

In Ohio, 15.8% of the people are considered at poverty level land there are not enough free clinics for the people to receive check ups (Larrick, Ohio Poverty Report 2016). Especially for women, because 11% of women in Ohio are uninsured and there are a limited amount of free clinics (Health Care for Women, Department of Government Affairs). Therefore, the Government needs to provide funding, so that there can be more free clinics for women that are in families that earn low income between…

The kimbell museum located in Fort worth texas, widely recognized for its different art pieces it houses. The kimbell hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. With the Kimbell having an impressive art collection, the Kimbell may need a more impressive building to house everything. But before we get into the building we need to know the people who designed it. Louis Kahn was born in Pärnu, Estonia, on February…

Creativity has been with the human race since the beginning of time, from designing complex infrastructures, to developing the first rocket to ever reach outer space.Creativity has lead to many of the most influential practices and ideas, and has inspired countless of other individual to think creatively. Although creativity may still be present today, it continues to fight a battle of extinction where creativity is bound to lose. While some scholars believe that creativity flourishes in society…

George Eastman, J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie were captains of industry. Eastman, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie were all captains of industry because they all gave back and donated money, each of these four men donated money or items to business, charities, and founded their own schools or business. George Eastman was a very generous man and gave money to schools, businesses, and even gave away scholarships/internships to M.I.T which stands for Massachusetts Institute of…

John D Rockefeller and George Eastman were captains of industry because they were innovators and and philanthropists. Rockefeller introduced new techniques that reshaped the oil industry. Rockefeller used kerosene instead of throwing it out. He sold sold byproduct paraffin to candlemakers, and other byproduct petroleum jelly to medical supply companies. He also used it to pave roads. Rockefeller was able to come up with a way to use something that others saw as waste, when he saw it as gold. The…

This country was built on the concepts of advancement and prosperity. However, it wasn’t built overnight. The America that we know today wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for our technological advancements over the decades. The industrial revolution was quite the game-changer for our country. From the 1970s until the mid-1800s it changed the ways we got things done. New inventions such as the steam engine and new ways to utilize fossil fuels gave us the ability to increase efficiency and reduce…

both of them intrigued the attention of major business tycoons. John D. Rockefeller was one of them. His creation, the Standard Oil, controlled 90% of the refined oil production in the USA in 1900 (“John D Rockefeller and the standard”). He received a good education during his young life span. He acquired his first job as a clerk when he was 16 years…

accumulate wealth and hold monopolies. One person who was able to accumulate a massive amount of wealth during this time was John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller is one of the richest americans in history. Throughout his life he was able to accumulate massive wealth, devoted time as a philanthropist which both helped pave the way for future Americans. John D. Rockefeller first began earning his own income as a boy by raising turkeys, selling candy and side jobs he did for his neighbors. This…