ENC 1101H ESSAY#1 REVISION - Pratoomsri 1 Teerawat Pratoomsri Dr L Casmier-Paz ENC 1101H 2 December 2007 Silver Screens and the Internet Blackboards of

Pratoomsri 1 Teerawat Pratoomsri Dr. L. Casmier-Paz ENC 1101H 2 December 2007 Silver Screens and the Internet: Blackboards of the Postliterate Age Writing is the very foundation of our history. Without writing, we would not be what we are today. Everything we do or have today ultimately leads back to writing, be it our technology, our organization, or our very ways of life. In the past decades, though, technology and innovations in media such as films and the Internet have rendered conventional writing essentially obsolete, even though both films and the Internet could also be considered writing, though unconventional. Before the “Postliterate Age” (Rosenstone 50), writing dictated the majority of our understanding of native peoples, their history, and the earliest encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, both positively and negatively. Some of our understandings of the natives and their encounters are positive. In the Aztec accounts of the reading First Encounters , the Aztecs were shown as peaceful and loyal people by showing that the Aztecs “[one] by one did reverence to Cort é s by touching the ground before him with their lips” and “arrayed the captain in the finery they had brought him as presents” (Leon- Portilla 16), although the Europeans paid them back in blood. In parts of Black Robe , the natives