How did I come up with my research question?

For the couple of past weeks, we have been working on power and leadership. I did a presentation about power of groups and individual and it was successful, so for essay research question, I decided to keep working on power of groups. First I made a table to review my notes on The Wave, Winston Churchill, The power of One and Lord of the flies. I divided the notes into three parts: individual, group, and both and tried to find relation between them. There are my five conclusions according to the notes:

1. The power of one can start a group to become the power of group, once it become the power of group, it will bond together as the power of one again.
2. Distinguishing levels of power and threat and seeing clearly through the things make a person not be caught into a group and then not be able to get out of it.
3. Once a group of people has the same thought and the same aim, they become power of one.
4. People are attracted by the power of the group because everyone has an aspect of evil within them.
5. Although the leader is a person who has power in a group, once the leader is caught into it and loses ability to think and judge, the leader will be swamped by the power of the group.

I found it difficult to mix them together to get one conclusion because they are completely different aspects about power and leadership. After considering and talking with Mrs. Taynton, I decided to use the fourth one as my thesis statement: People are attracted by the power of the group because everyone has an aspect of evil within them. Although it’s a very strong thesis statement and it’s arguable, it’s hard to explain people all have an aspect of evil. So in my outline, I use one paragraph to talk about even if not all the people have aspect of evil, they all have potential to do harm.