User:Jim Nightshade

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--Who wields me, wields the world! 02:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)Username: Jim Nightshade

This page is under construction. My real name is David Pendery. I am currently a student in a doctoral English literature program in Taipei, Taiwan. I live here and work as an English teacher and editor.

I have been editing on Wikipedia since about August 2006. I think my first edit was on Philosophy of History, while I was doing some research for a paper I was working on. noticed some weaknesses and omissions on the page. Later I was doing some research for a class I was teaching, and I edited Richard Rodriguez, the Mexican-American writer. I am very interested in what Wikidpedia is doing, and strongly believe in the value of this approach to learning and organizing information.

I am a serious student, scholar and writer and try to write with this attitude on Wikipedia. I think I have made some good additions, and I always try to follow the rules strictly, and contribute well-written pieces.

I'll add more to this at another time. Write now I am busy finishing three final papers for school. I am writing one on Moral Realism in literature; a second on English historical consciousness and the King Arthur tales, read through St. Augustine's Confessions; and a third on moral currents in American drama, focusing on Sam Shepard and Neil Simon. Some of these ideas I hope to include in my disseration, which will be about moral behavior, narrative, history and temorality.