Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is synonymous with becoming an engineer. You cannot practice engineer if you are not working problems out and expressing your thoughts rationally and logically. The main reason engineers need to possess advanced critical thinking is because lives are often at stake due to their measurements, decisions, and and analysis. Rarely do you hear about it, but it does happen, that a structure collapsed, a vehicle combusted, etc. due to a "engineering error." It is never acceptable to allow people to suffer or families to lose a son, daughter, mom, or dad because you weren't analyzing the material correctly and understand the weaknesses.

Thoughts on The Reading

I think that similarities can be drawn between the Nazi Regime and Modern Day Catholicism but they also vary vastly. Religion is an institution with far different control a totalitarian government. The people of Germany had no choice whether or not to follow the Nazi regime but becoming a Catholic is a choice for people.
Hitler instructed his followers to judge other people differently based on religion or ethnicity. Catholicism has some long-standing opinions towards certain things including homosexuality and other beliefs of the divine and my not condone certain things and look to "convert" oppose to accept but its a religion and theres no reason for a religion to change its beliefs for something that its doctrine disagrees with.
A government should be doing this because it is supposed to change under the opinions of the people it governs; many say that government is an organic thing that is never completely set or never should be done changing.

I-405

So I have officially switched from Traffic System as a whole to the specific highway, I-405. If you are unfamiliar of this highway, it stretches from southern Orange County north to north San Fernando Valley.
It is a split off of the '5' and is a busy highway for commuters. During rush hours, it is truly one of the worst highways to try to travel, a trip that realistically could take only twenty minutes instead last an hour or longer due to accidents, increasing number of cars, and poor design.
I have found for many stretches of the '405' there is only one carpool lane going either way which actually discourages people carpooling to take the lane because if there is one car traveling under the speed limit it backs everyone up behind them. Many times the carpool lane is fairly empty because of this.
Another problem I've noticed is the complete insanity from motorcyclists. Upon moving out here, I learned that it is legal for them to 'lane-split' and just cut up through the middle of cars on a busy highway. To me this is absolutely crazy, it affects how I drive because if I'm changing lanes I'm always looking for them coming up the left or right side.
Please comment with any other complaints you can think of. Thanks