John Browning

the U.S. Armed Forces has benefited from John Browning – and chances are they don’t even know it! John Browning’s company holds 128 patents for 80 different kinds of weapons, and he started it all out of his little shop in Ogden. His gun inventions and improvements were so good that from World War I through the Korean War, the U.S. Armed Forces wouldn’t put a gun made by anyone else in the hands of a U.S. soldier. More of the story: Son of a gunsmith. John liked guns since he was a kid. In fact,

American project on John Moses Browning. John Browning was born in Ogden Utah on January 23rd 1855. His dad Jonathan Browning was a gunsmith. John grew up in his dad's gun shop. His dad was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Like many of the early Saints his dad was a polygamist. He had three wives and twenty two children. One of his sons at age six he apprenticed himself so in other words he was a daddy's boy, that son was John Moses Browning. John built his first gun

The gun was given the nickname "Potato Digger" because it was so powerful that the arm of dug into the ground while firing. It was also had a gas-operated and air-cooled design. (Colt Browning M1895) This belt-fed gun could fire from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute. The Colt-Browning M1895 was the first successful gas-operated machine gun to enter the service. Once redesigned by Colt from Browning's ideas, it weighed thirty-five pounds. Along with being the first gas-operated

The Enzymatic Browning of Apples Practical experiment: The purpose of the experiment is to measure the level of browning, due to the effects of the enzyme called polyphenol oxidase (phenolase), on apple slices exposed to different Ph. levels. When exposed to oxygen the enzyme catalyzes the reaction creating melanins (brown pigments) on the fruit. Soaking the apple slices in acetic acid, orange juice (ascorbic acid), tap water and calcium carbonate (alkaline) will affect the rate in which the apple

Comparing A&P by John Updike and Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning In John Updike's short story, "The A&P", he writes of an eighteen-year-old cashier who is infatuated with three girls that enter the store and in Robert Browning's poem, Porphyria's Lover, He writes of a man's intense passion for his lover. Even thought these two works are different in context, they have very striking similarities. Updike's narrating main character, Sammy, is plagued by middle class monotonous life style

tyrants, who use their power for their own satisfaction. In “My Last Duchess” the Duke of Ferrara uses his power to control his subjects, and kills his wife because of the way she acts around other men. From beginning to end “My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning displays the corrupt power of the domestic tyrant, his arrogance, jealousy, and the ruthlessness. To begin, the Duke is displayed to be a corrupt leader. His tyrannical ways and ideas of solving problems in his life are preposterous. The Duke is

Robert Browning and the Dramatic Monologue Controlling Purpose: to analyze selected works of Robert Browning. I. Brief overview of Browning A. Greatest Poet B. Family Life II. Brief overview of "My Last Duchess" A. Descriptive adjectives B. Cause for death C. Description of his wife III. Definition of Dramatic Monologue IV. Comments by Glenn Everett A. Point of View B. Tone C. Audience Imagination V. Comments by Terry Bohannon A. No Christianity B. Evil Characters Robert Browning and the

The early nineteenth century poem by Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover”, is filled with examples of figurative language. Browning uses metaphors, similes, and personification to bring the poem to life. The use of figurative language allows Browning to raise from the dead a poem with the unemotional tonee of the speaker. He exposes the mind of a psychopath, an insane lover, mastering the art of the dramatic monologue. “Porphyria’s Lover” opens with a scene of a warm cozy cottage during a raging

The Victorian period was an era concerned with the role assigned to gender, from a social and political standpoint, particularly the role of women in society. From this controversy, the “Women Question.” The Women Question tackled concerns and open debates about gender inequality from a political, economical, social and educational standpoint about the role and nature of women. However, the shift in the economy challenged the role that was customary for women. The beginning of the Victorian period

Arguments of Christopher Browning versus Daniel John Goldhagen Regarding The German View of the Holocaust The arguments of Christopher Browning and Daniel John Goldhagen contrast greatly based on the underlining meaning of the Holocaust to ordinary Germans. Why did ordinary citizens participate in the process of mass murder? Christopher Browning examines the history of a battalion of the Order Police who participated in mass shootings and deportations. He debunks the idea that these ordinary