Saturday, November 1, 2014

Brian Webber's Timeline, my look at 9/11 as a "600-pound gorilla" in Pop Culture

For anyone interested, I can email you this PowerPoint. Classmate Brian Webber did an excellent all-inclusive musical, movie and historical-event timeline.

And i argued that 9/11 was a seminal event in our period, which was 1991-2014

It was, as I called it, a 600-pound gorilla

It was like a movie.
 But the effects of the 9/11 terror attacks didn’t end in 2 hours.
It’s forever tattoed into U.S. popular culture.
 From movies to national defense, 9/11 rocked us. It exploded our arrogance like jet-struck skyscrapers. 
We made two wars and locked down constitutional freedom.
We even pray differently. The chosen nation is humbled.

We Live in Fear Amid an Infinite War on Terror.
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Saudis, others helped hijackers
Secret 9/11 History Prompts Siege by Victims’ Families
Even Saudis, though Implicated, Urge Declassification
Once-cleared, viewers read 28 pages in special room
Need for Revelation Outweighs Impact, say Families
“Heinous Plot” Redacted by President G. W. Bush
* Congressional, Victims’ 2014 Release Demand Denied 
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National Grief Still Lingers
Chosen Nation Becomes Humbled, Religious
Dividing-Line Event, a Before & After
Pivotal Like JFK Death, WW II or Berlin Wall
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"Christo-Americans" 
Wrongly Fret Islam
FOUR WAYS 9/11 CHANGED RELIGION:
The Chosen Nation is Humbled, so we pray.
Muslim Intolerance Urged by Patriotic Evangelists Franklin Graham & Pat Robertson.
Interfaith Activists Become Cool, Accepted.
Atheists Come out of the Closet.  Claim saying, “God on our Side” is Religious Extremism.
       That’s worst than Islamic
 State rhetoric,

              and it’s all hypocrisy.
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References

“9/11's Secret 28-page history. Families Demand Release of Classified 2002 Report Detailing
               Foreign-Government Support for Sept. 11 Hijackers.” (Kennedy, R.) Sept. 10, 2014
               Aljazeera News Service (U.S.)
               Retrieved from:
               http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/09/911-secret-28-page-history-201499122529308836.html

“9/11: 10 Years Later. ‘This Picture Haunts Daddy:’ 9/11 Generation Finds its Voice”
               (O’Neill, A.) Cable News Network, CNN U.S.
              Retrieved from:
Families demand release of classified 2002 report detailing foreign-government support for September 11 hijackers.
              “Five Stages of Grief:  Responses to Loss that Many People Have.”
               (Kubler-Ross, E.) on grief.com’s Because Love Never Dies.
               Retrieved from:
               http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/

“Four Ways 9/11 Changed America’s Attitude Toward Religion,” (Blake, J.)
              Sept. 3, 2011. Belief Blog, Cable News Network
               Retrieved from:

“From Movies to Sports, Coming to Terms with 9/11” (Leopold, T.)
           Sept. 3, 2011
           Cable News Network, CNN Entertainment
           Retrieved from:

“In Post 9/11 America, No One is Untouched” (Drash, W.) Sept. 10, 2011
            Cable News Network, CNN U.S.
             Retrieved from:






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