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The University of Maryland College Park campus Health Center offers to each student a certain number of free mental health counseling sessions. On the advisement of my professor, to whom I still owe a big paper, I availed myself of that opportunity.
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Well, ADD does explain a few things, I must admit.
In other news, I finished reading Bram Stoker's "Dracula" for the first time, and it was quite a page-turner. More interesting to me, however, were the novel's weaknesses, the most vivid of which was the strangely inconsistent misogynism. The behavior and treatment of Mina Murray is what I have in mind: most of the time, and in the opinion of all the characters, she is brilliantly clever and uncommonly brave, but then she will be reduced to a weirdly sexualized pawn. Come to think of it, all the sexuality in the novel is very strange, and all of it regarding the females. I think Mr. Stoker had some very interesting issues.
...
Well, ADD does explain a few things, I must admit.
In other news, I finished reading Bram Stoker's "Dracula" for the first time, and it was quite a page-turner. More interesting to me, however, were the novel's weaknesses, the most vivid of which was the strangely inconsistent misogynism. The behavior and treatment of Mina Murray is what I have in mind: most of the time, and in the opinion of all the characters, she is brilliantly clever and uncommonly brave, but then she will be reduced to a weirdly sexualized pawn. Come to think of it, all the sexuality in the novel is very strange, and all of it regarding the females. I think Mr. Stoker had some very interesting issues.
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