Discuss the impact a language can have as revealed by stories such as “Jesus Shaves” or the poem “Ode to American English.”

Choose to answer/address one of the following questions/prompts in your 5-paragraph essay:

5) Discuss the impact a language can have as revealed by stories such as “Jesus Shaves” or the poem “Ode to American English.”

6) In what way does David Sedaris’ “Jesus Shaves” reveal hidden assumptions of ethnocentrism and cultural superiority?