More prompt responses.  Again, I have gotten behind with this, but I have thought about these things, so I will now post about them.
Anyway,

Tell and analyze the creation myth of our nation, a town, or a cultural institution.

The creation myth of the USA would, I suppose, have the following four stages.  First, the Early Years, beginning with the discovery of the continent by Christopher Columbus.  This would continue through the years of colonization, the Queen Anne's War and the age of Caribbean piracy.  Then, the Revolution and Expansion, with the Revolution against England, from the Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary war, followed by Washington's refusal to be King, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the Louisiana Purchase.  This age would continue through the Civil War, the "wild west" age, the Gold Rush, and the Guilded Age, and ending with World War I.  America is then a major power in the world, and a new age begins.  The "roaring 20's" arrive after the war, making the United States a wealthy place, followed by the Great Depression.  These are trial years for the country, and end witht he onset of World War II, which drove America out of the Depression, and established the country as a Superpower.  There follows a time of uneasy peace, the Cold War, while the middle class gained strength, and "suburbia" was invented.  This age continued until the end of the Cold War in 1989, and there began what I would call the Computer Age.  This age is what continues today, as computers and machines become more and more central to American life.

Review Classmate's Myth blogs.
I did this, it was very informative.  Due to the great variety of people who are in the class, I was able to get a large sampling of how others feel about the things being discussed in class , which was very intersting.

Describe and comment on a contemporary destructive myth sighting. 
It seems like there are a lot of destructive myths in the world in general.  People are concerned about the zombie apaocalypse, a friend in high school told me she was concerned about a penguin apocalypse, and theories abound about Yellowstone erupting, asteroid impacts, and nuclear war.  The most intreaguing to me, however, are those involving the end of the world in 2012.  According to a friend, the world will end at that time because the planets will be lined up just so that they will make sea levels rise dramatically, flooding the planet.  This is interesting on many levels, as it is not only a destruction myth involving the earth, but it is a deep space destruction stroy as well.  It is also said that the world will end because the Mayan calender ends in 2012, making it a semi-religious destructive myth as well.

Write an Ethnography of a Modern Rite of Passage.
The greatest rite of passage I know of in the modern world is that of getting one's driver's license.  There are many steps to this.  First, the future driver sees others--parents, and other authority figures, driving, and perhaps older siblings as well.  This often causes the future driver to want to drive.  Next there is an initation of sorts, driver's education.  This is very boring, and can be difficult to get through, but the wait is rewarded by a second initiation, driver's trianing.  Here a great deal of comradery can be created with embarassing stories of first times behind the wheel, and the driver becomes much more confident over this time.  They also learn to drive from parents.  Eventually, they driver must go to the DMV and take a test with a teacher who will evaluate if the driver is ready to go out alone on the road or not.  This is the final test, and afterwards the individual has a licence.  This gives him or her much more freedom than they had before the licence was obtained, they can go places they could not before, and are much more in charge of their own life as they do not need others to take them to and from places.

Play with a Proppian Analysis of a familiar story
I will use the example of one of my favorite stories, that of Star Wars.  For this, I am using only Luke's part in the original movie.
The story begins with Luke on Tatooine, Luke is the hero, and his feeling of loss and lack of purpose is the lack.  He meets several donors, in quick succession; first, R2D2 and C3PO.  R2, in a way, tests him, when he shows Luke a portion of the message from Princess Leia and tells him he needs to find Obi-Wan Kenobi.  Luke is then tested when R2 runs away, and Luke and 3PO are attacked by sand people.  He meets a second donor after this encounter, Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi.  Luke then recieves a magical agent, the lightsaber that Kenobi gives him. Luke is then transferred to a magical place, the city of Mos Eisley. They meet another set of donors, Han Solo and Chewbacca in a bar, but the droids are discovered, and the hero is branded as an enemy of the Empire, and is transferred again, going into space on the Millenium Falcon.  Luke is then branded again, this time as a Jedi as Obi-Wan begins his training en route to Alderaan.  There is then combat with a villain when they go to rescue Princess Leia on the Death Star; they sucessfully rescue the Princess (another donor) and Kenobi is stuck down.  The group goes to rendevous with the rebellion, Luke arrives unrecognized as the Jedi that he is, and he is tested again, this time be Leia and the rebellion, challanged to destroy the Death Star.  Luke, with the aid of the Force and Obi-Wan's spirit, accomplishes this when several others had failed, and along the way battle with a villain, Darth Vader, who comes to shoot down Luke's ship.  Luke, however, is rescued by Han and Chewbacca, and returns, now recognized as a hero, as are Han, Chewey, and the two droids. 
Describe and comment on current/national mythologies.
In national and cultural mythologies, the hero (the country or culture) never seems to lose.  An easy example of this is the myth of my home state, California.  In California people can live and party at the beach all the time, there is always sunshine and palm trees, "California girls" as the song calls them, are the prettiest in the country, and the boys are all tan and have sixpacks and call one another "dude".  San Francisco is the most beautiful city in the world, the tallest trees are in California, there is wonderful skiing in the Sierra Nevada mountains, we had a movie star for a governor, people make movies in Hollywood, down in Southern California, the 49ers have never lost a Superbowl...I could go on, but it is not necessary.  We are all aware of the attitude that Californians have about their state.  We choose to ignore the fact that California is also an earthquake capitol of the world, that there is indeed rain and fog a lot in the state, that Los Angeles has some of the worst air quality in the country, that we as a state are heavily in debt, that the expensive homes people build on the coast are eroded away or lost in landslides, that wildfires sweep the landscape every summer and fall.  All of this is also true of California, but we do not acknowledge it.  Never.  California is the best.  It is just the way it is.  This attitude is mirrored by the country at large; despite the flaws of this country, we will never admit to them.  This attitude is frequently parodied; in an episode of the sitcom 30 Rock,  the late dictator Kim Jong-il (portrayed by Margert Cho) creates a propaganda film about North Korea's many wonderful attributes, claiming the country to be sunny and beautiful all the time, all for humorous effect.

Respond to Karen Armstrong's conclusion about the need for new mythologies to meet the crises of our current times.
            The need for mythology is now as present as it ever was.  It is however, a different type of mythology than what humans had in ancient times.  We have our national and cultural mythologies, which roughly correspond to creation myths and to a lesser extent, ritual myths; we also have the religions of the world, which all have their own myths, whether in the scriptures of that denomination or in the "creation" of that religion itself.  We have a great many destruction myths, from plausible, and frankly frightening ones such as those concerning extraterrestrial impacts and nuclear war, to those that are strange and unlikely such as the zombie apocalypse and alien invasions.  In addition, we have scientific myths that we have faith in, the ideals that science can answer all of our questions, among other myths, and, in our increasingly industrial world, we humanize animals.  For instance, the hyena and the wolf are frequently villainous, bullying species, the lion, the tiger, the bear and the elephant are regal and majestic, monkeys and apes are cute and innocent, and mice, rabbits, raccoons, and weasels are "trickster" species.  We also have mythic heroes (and villians) in the form of athletes, actors, politicians, religious figures, and soldiers.
Basically, we do need myth to connect us to the world around us, and to the past and the future.  We create these myths ourselves  based upon our feelings about these people, animals, and events, and use them to relate to the world.  Regarding the "hero" myths, and the animal myths, it is interesting to note that we especially like to turn to athletes and soldiers and politicians from the past rather than the present because they have already been idealized for us.  We do not think of modern day athletes, whom we know to be flawed, but instead idealize Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, and Steve Young; we mock active politicians and praise the names of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roseveldt; and we do not know anything about living soldiers or generals but love stories about Leonidas, Hannibal, Alexander, Robert E. Lee, and Robert Patton.  As animals get rarer and their homes more remote, we humanize them more and more.

Evaluate and Comment on the Journey through myth you've made through your journal.

I feel like I have learned a lot by writing this blog.  It has helped me to understand what myth truly is, and how much the myths that I create and that others have created for me have affected my life and the way I see the world.  It also helped me to see how much myths that others have created affect them.  Basically, it has greatly enhanced my view of world culture, and of the human conciousness.