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Dennis, Michael Robert; Ridder, Karen; Kunkel, Adrianne Dennis – Death Studies, 2006
Kunkel and Dennis (2003) established a framework for the examination of contemporary eulogia drawn from the comforting and social support paradigms found in psychology and communication literatures. Dennis and Kunkel (2004) applied the framework to eulogies for fallen national heroes (e.g., victims of terrorism and space shuttle astronauts)…
Descriptors: Presidents, United States History, Rhetoric, Grief
Turner Educational Services, Inc., Atlanta, GA. – 1997
CNN Newsroom is a daily 15-minute news program specifically produced for classroom use and provided free to participating schools. These classroom guides, designed to accompany the daily CNN (Cable News Network) Newsroom broadcasts for September 2-29, 1997, provide program rundowns, suggestions for class activities and discussion, student…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Class Activities, Current Events, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Cable News Network, Atlanta, GA. – 1994
These classroom guides for the daily CNN (Cable News Network) Newsroom broadcasts for the month of July provide program rundowns, suggestions for class activities and discussion, student handouts, and a list of related news terms. Topics covered by the guides include: (1) Yasser Arafat and online projects (July 1); (2) Yasser Arafat, athletes as…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Class Activities, Current Events, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Cable News Network, Atlanta, GA. – 1998
CNN Newsroom is a daily 15-minute commercial-free news program specifically produced for classroom use and provided free to participating schools. These daily Classroom Guides are designed to accompany the broadcast, and contain activities for discussing top stories, headlines, and other current events topics; each guide also includes World Wide…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Current Events, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Television
Klinger-Vartabedian, Laurel – 1987
The American space shuttle Challenger's explosion prompted a national grieving process typified by stages of shock, disbelief, acknowledgement, and finally recovery/adaptation. President Reagan's speech on the evening of the disaster assisted this process by integrating content and structure with the psychological needs of the audience. Reagan's…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grief, Persuasive Discourse, Psychological Needs
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Dennis, Michael Robert; Kunkel, Adrianne Dennis – Death Studies, 2004
A. D. Kunkel and M. R. Dennis (2003) demonstrated that examining texts for identified components of eulogia, as drawn from the comforting and social support paradigms found in psychology and communication literatures (i.e., credibility establishment, praise for the deceased, self-disclosure of emotion, prescriptions for problem-focused coping,…
Descriptors: Presidents, Coping