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    King, countess of Lovelace, original name Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now in London], England—died November 27, 1852, Marylebone, London), English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who legally separated two months after her birth. Her

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    Humans are known for bestowing their judgment irrationally and based on the “book cover” of a person, they may degrade their fellow human into the worst positions of the social ladder. Mary Shelley, in her novel Frankenstein, expands on this perspective by using mood and tone to parallel with the circumstances of an event occurring in her novel with shifts throughout the context of the book, symbolized by the changes in nature and seasons. This shift is made frequently between the agonized, desperate

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    Tone in "The Destruction of Sennacherib" In Lord Byron 's poem "The Destruction of Sennacherib" the narrator 's tone is one of amazement. It 's clear to see that he is amazed a how quickly and easily the huge enemy army is wiped out. He says that the enemy 's army was as numerous as the leaves on the trees and that their spears shined like the "stars on the sea", but all the angel of death had to do was "spread his wings" to dispose of them. The speaker seems to be in awe of how little effort

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    Byron was one of the main characters in the book The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963. At the beginning of the book he was a Bully, he was self-centered, and he was irresponsible. But towards the end of the book, his personality started to change. He was a supportive, patient, and protective brother to both Kenny and Joetta. At the beginning of the book, he was a bully. He beat up Larry Dunn. He was the King of Clark but unfortunately, Byron was the god. He beat up Larry Dunn for stealing Kenny’s

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    boat. Evidently, they found nothing. They thought it was a clever trick, however; little did they know it was an international environmental crisis that would further deteriorate their colossal empire. This was the eruption of Mount Tambora, April 5th, 1815 (Tillotson, 2016).

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