Allan PaivioAllan PaivioAcademic career. Paivio has published approximately two hundred articles and is most known for his dual-coding theory. Dual-coding theory posits that nonverbal and verbal information are stored separately in long term memory.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Allan_PaivioAllan Paivio – Wikipedia (1971) explains this principle with the theory of “dual…
“Murder your darlings,” is a popular piece of writing advice that is often attributed to William Faulkner, but which can actually be traced back to the English writer and surname collector Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Where does the phrase Kill Your Darlings come from? The phrase “in writing you must kill…
Under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain, the French established trading posts at Acadia in 1604–05 and Quebec in 1608. In 1609, English sailor Henry Hudson, employed by the Dutch East India Company, claimed the Hudson River valley for the Dutch. Forts Orange (the present site of Albany, New York)…
The first documented instance of “tarnation” was in Royall Tyler’s 1790 play Contrast, where the character Jonathan uses it three times (along with the word “tarnal”): “Why, such a tarnal cross tike you never saw! You would have counted she had lived upon crab-apples and vinegar for a fortnight. What…
Lewis and Clark ExpeditionLewis and Clark ExpeditionFort Mandan was the name of the encampment which the Lewis and Clark Expedition built for wintering over in 1804–1805. The encampment was located on the Missouri River approximately twelve miles (19 km) from the site of present-day Washburn, North Dakota, which developed later.https://en.wikipedia.org…
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Certainly, at his 1933…
Global sales from natural rubber exports by country totaled US$13.1 billion in 2019. That amount reflects an average -1.2% drop in value since 2015 when natural rubber shipments were worth $13.2 billion. Year over year, exported natural rubber fell by -0.5% from 2018 to 2019. The People’s Republic of China…
The hip hop music was invented accidentally by Clive Campbell (Stage name DJ Kool Herc) during a DJ performance event organized on 11th August 1973. A simple yet cool experiment with the instrumental sections of the song gave birth to a new genre of music called Hip Hop music. Who…
Contents. From August to October of 1858, Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois, took on the incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas in a series of seven debates. Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln…
The term “Third World” was first penned in 1952 by Alfred Sauvy, a French economist and historian who defined Third World countries as countries that were neither Western Countries nor members of the Soviet Federation. Thinking of these three factions, French demographer Alfred Sauvy wrote of “Three worlds, one planet”…