When I think about science fiction, the best example is the "Time Machine" by H.G wells.  I saw a movie version of it not so long ago.  Perhaps the movie is a bit different from the original book so don't penalize me if I got some things distorted from the original.  The initial word that flashes through my mind is "awesome".  Awesome even though the developments were extremely scary.  As he goes more and more into the future, he arrives in a destroyed future.  A future where the "warlocks" (deformed mutations of our former form), torment the humanity that still lives above ground.  Major events in the earth divided the human races in two species.  One that was devoid of pigment and that was forced to live underground.  A future where humans are eaten by creatures is certainly not one to look forward to.  However, it does show us that humanity is fragile thing.  And if Darwin is correct, then it is theoretically possible that the human species could separate into two different species.  Given enough time in different envirements, the two sects of people could evolve differently.  I think most people who watch the film and believe in Darwin's findings would agree with me.  Insterestingly enough, I personally do find this type of film much more entertaining than the segment we watched on Darwin.  People are far more interested in watching humanity spilt into two species than to dwell on Darwin's ethical dilema.  It's just the society we live in.  Science fiction sells because it takes us to "la la land".  Science itself does too, but not as much I guess.

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My name is Jose Carbonell, I was raised in Queens.  I started at Laguardia as a Paralegal Major; I didn’t want to rule out Law school from my future prospects so I changed my major to one that would lead to a more appealing to Law school admission.  While it certainly isn’t impossible to get into Law school with a Paralegal degree, it would not be the preferred path.  Anyway, so my major is now Liberal Arts: Social Science/Humanities and I plan to go on to study Political Science.  Being very familiar and fairly immersed in the curriculum in the Paralegal program, I can certainly tell you that there is a lot less writing involved in Paralegal studies.  I wouldn’t place Paralegal studies in the Science section.  It would be better described as Technology.  From my choice of classes it can be seen that I definitely consider myself leaning toward Humanities.  It’s like that old saying “you’re either a left brain or a right brain”, to me this means that some people have an easier time working with numbers or formulas, while others like to play with words and ideas.  In no way am I proposing that Mathematics majors or Science majors aren’t creative, I’m just saying that they have more of an inclination to other things.  At the same time I could spend countless hours trying to figure out Calculus or Statistic problems, and only achieve an average grade.  I’ll give you a better example, Michael Jordan is arguably the best basketball player of all time.  With that being said, he was only a mediocre baseball player.  Surely his work ethic wasn’t vastly different as he practiced in different disciplines of athletics.  The only reasonable explanation why he was able to excel so much in basketball, but fail in baseball was an inclination for one over the other.