Answer the following Question :

1. What role do contemporary myths play in your everyday life, such as at home with your family, at work with your colleagues, and in the media? Is that role an important one? Explain why or why not.

2. Think of historical American stories, such as the first Thanksgiving turkey dinner, George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, or Davy Crockett killing a bear at 3 years old. Arethese stories myths, legends, fairy tales, or something else? What, if anything, about these accounts is literally true? How do these accounts inform our conceptions of Thanksgiving, George Washington, Davy Crockett, or others you have thought of?

75 words each