James Edwin Horton

Objective Description In the year 2000, the American Museum of Natural History posted an essay as an online resource, Profile: Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang. An excerpt from Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge. It was edited by Steven Soter and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The profile begins with a simple explanation of the expanding universe and how Georges Lemaître published his mathematical findings that today we know as the Big Bang theory. Soter and deGrasse Tyson provide…

The 1970’s was a strange and growing time. Music continued to explode with new genres of music such as disco, hip-hop, punk rock, and heavy metal. Some bands and music artist that emerged popular in the 70’s were David Bowie, the Bee Gees, Queen, James Brown, as well as Creedence Clearwater Revival (Peoples Hist.). The fashion was an ever changing thing of the 70’s. Some fashion trends that occurred in the 70’s were bellbottoms, tie dye shirts, flower power, and mod clothing. It was quite the…

Edwin Powell Hubble was born on November 20th, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri. He was the third child of seven kids. His dad was John P. Hubble, and his mom was Virginia Lee James Hubble. Edwin lived in Missouri until his grade school years, when his dad moved to Chicago in 1898 for his real estate business. Hubble went to Wheaton High School in Chicago, where he excelled as a student and an athlete. Hubble graduated in the class of 1906 when he was just 16 years old, two years younger than most…

Lester Horton Lester Iradell Horton was born January 23, 1906 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Iradell and Pollyanna Horton. As a child he was interested in Native American culture, which is also what sparked his interest in dance. He studied several Native American tribes including, the Iroquois, Red River Indians, Penobscot, and Ojibway. Horton also studied ballet for two years, and took classes at the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis while working for the Indianapolis Little Theatre.…

company should go, lack of company culture being spread throughout rigs and locations, and a lack of safety procedures actually being carried out, BP was doomed. CEO Robert Horton, 1989 wanted to cut expenses by $750 million, he started by removing management levels and cut back on the people working at BP headquarters. Horton also changed the decision making process so that there were smaller teams that were meant to keep open lines of communication. In 1992 David Simon became CEO and he…

Patricia Cormack (2008)’s ‘True Stories’ of Canada: Tim Hortons and the Branding of National Identity has described the famous coffee chain brand Tim Horton’s successful approach of making itself an authentic icon of Canadian national identity. According to her theory, Canada’s identity was “in crisis” at that…

“From Stanley Cups to Coffee Cups”, this book is about Tim Horton, whose real name is Myles Gilbert “Tim” Horton. He was a famous Canadian hockey player who helped win 4 Stanley Cups. Horton was also most known for creating a coffee and doughnut shop called Tim Hortons, which is currently very popular with Canadians. His original name was named after his grandfathers, Myles and Gilbert, but his mother always would rather use the name “Tim”. Therefore, Tim was his informal name ever since birth.…

From an objective point of view, one would say that the Tim Horton’s Timbits Minor Sports Program is a very generous and beneficial program based purely on its statistics. My subjective point of view does not differ from this one bit. I think that Time Horton’s charitable actions have been so helpful to the youth of Canada. I like the fact that the program offers various sports in order to cater to the kids’ desires. The size of the program I find is an unbelievable number. For a corporation, no…

the chain of coffee shops throughout Canada known as Tim Hortons. Of course their flagship product is coffee, but they also serve a variety of deserts and quick soup/sandwich meals at competitive prices. Is Tim Hortons a “green” corporation? In many ways I think they want the public to think so, but in my opinion they have room for improvement. On the Tim Hortons website, the link for “Making a True Difference” (Tim Hortons, 2016) highlights the contributions that the…

ackround Timmies franchise originated in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario. The company bears the name of Tim Horton a well known defence men for the Toronto Maple Leafs. After his death in 1974, Ron Joyce became a partner and rapidly expanded the number of stores opening the 500th in 1991. As the menu grew their market did as well, every industry’s main focus to succeed is to make profit. In 1996, Timmies signed with Wendy’s International Inc. which allowed them to grow and gain more profit in the U…