PCA - Packaging Corporation of America

Hiring for: General Labor - $18/hr to $23/hr2nd and 3rd shift - 10% shift premiumTruck Driver - $24/hr to $29.79/hrPhone Number: 616-949-6610Location: Grand Rapids Full-Line Plant4459 40th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49512Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k with company match, Gainshare program, Flexible PTO schedule, and 11 paid holiday a year.www.packagingcorp.com/care...

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About Yourself

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Analyze Text Structure

Louisa May Alcott1. Louisa May Alcott was influenced to write from an early age. She was born in 1832, in Pennsylvania, but grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, a center for thinkers and writers. Her father, the social reformer Bronson Alcott, was her teacher. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were her mentors.2. As a teenager, Alcott helped support her mother and sisters, while her father pursued unprofitable schemes for reform. Alcott was a seamstress, a governess, and a domestic servant at various times, but she kept writing. She published...

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Analyze Text Structure - Quiz

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8 Career Success Standards

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The Electro-Magnetic Connection

Who discovered that electricity and magnetism were two aspects of the same thing? Nineteenth-century scientist Michael Faraday made several important discoveries in chemistry, but it was his work with electricity that had the greatest impact. His interest in electricity was sparked by a series of experiments conducted by Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted. In 1820, Oersted discovered a fascinating relationship between electricity and magnetism. He concluded that an electrical current running...

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The Electro-Magnetic Connection - Quiz

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Investigating Microorganisms

How did the idea that germs cause disease come about? Louis Pasteur, a chemist and biologist, held the belief that scientific research should aid in the development and progression of industries. When beverage manufacturing plants were having problems with liquids spoiling during the mid-1800s, Pasteur used his microscope to observe the fermentation process. When a batch was bad, he found that other microorganisms had mixed with the yeast. He showed that heating liquid to around 60°C (140°F) would...

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Investigating Microorganisms - Quiz

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The Cicadas of Summer

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The Cicadas of Summer

If cicadas emerge only once every 13 or 17 years, why do you hear them every summer?Each summer in July and August, the steady buzz of cicadas fills the air across much of the United States. Male cicadas produce this noise in order to attract mates. When dozens of cicadas buzz at once, the sound can be loud, but when millions of them are calling out at once, the sound can be nearly deafening. Although there are thousands of different species of cicadas, they’re all members of the Cicadidae...

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Dating 101

How can scientists determine the age of objects and events from Earth’s past?Antiques dealers can use style, workmanship, and materials as clues to date a piece of furniture or a vase. It’s quite a bit more complex for scientists to assign an age to a fossil, a piece of rock, a tree limb, or even a geological event. Like an expert in antiques, a paleontologist or geologist will gather clues about an object. Then, he or she will use the information to determine the object’s age. Over the years, methods...

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Dating 101 - Quiz

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GRFJCC Student Handbook 2022

Job Corps is a major training and employment program administered by the Department of Labor. Job Corps was created to address the severe employment problems faced by socially and economically disadvantaged youth throughout the United States. Job Corps was originally established by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Current authorization and funding for the program is through the Workforce Investment Act. Job Corps is designed to assist young people that can benefit from the wide range of services...

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The Evolution of Ideas - Quiz

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The Evolution of Ideas

How does new knowledge change the way scientists look at old discoveries?Around 1909, Charles Doolittle Walcott received a bit of interesting news. Canadian railroad workers were collecting “stone bugs” that they had found while cutting a path through the Rocky Mountains. Walcott was the head of the Smithsonian Institute, and a respected paleontologist, so he rushed to see what kinds of fossils had been found.From 1910 to 1917, Walcott collected more than 65,000 specimens from the area—a massive...

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Reconstructing the Past

How do scientists figure out what dinosaurs looked like?Do you know what dinosaurs look like? You’ve probably seen their images hundreds of times. Although most people could easily describe one, the truth is that no one really knows what dinosaurs looked like. The creatures that the word dinosaur bring to mind are actually the joint creations of paleontologists and artists. While they do their best to be scientifically accurate, a lot of educated guesswork is involved.Fossils are the source of most...

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Reconstructing the Past - Quiz

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Scientific Reasoning

What’s the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning?Science is about discovering the reasons why things happen in the universe, so it shouldn’t be a surprise to learn that scientific knowledge is gained through reasoning. There’s more than a single way to reason, though, and one plays a much bigger role in science than any other.Deduction is a form of reasoning that uses broad, generalized facts to draw conclusions about specific questions or events. For example, let’s say you go to...

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Culinology The Intersection of Culinary Art and Food Science

New product development is fraught with difficulty, cost, and high rates of failure. Why do companies pursue it? Would it not be simpler to do the minimal amount of development necessary to stay in business? Or simpler still, wouldn’t it be easier to coast along with existing products? Both options would certainly be simpler, but the company would not be profitable for long. Food companies must grow to make money and survive. As John Maynard Keynes put it so succinctly in A Treatise...

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Scientific Reasoning - Quiz

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Understand Connotation

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A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics - Chapter 2 Quiz

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A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics - Chapter 1 Quiz

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Windows 10 Essential Training

1. Welcome | Exercise | Analogies | Account | Upgrade | Install | First start2. Settings | Mouse | Internet | Keys | Shutdown | Printer | Taskbar3. Start Menu | Interface | Quit | Pinning | Multitask | Task view | Tablet mode4. Touch | Browsing | Structure | Custom | Copy move | External | Delete5. Shortcuts | Desktop | Save In App | Zip | Cortana | Search Computer6. Voice | Edge | Browsing | Favorites | Reading | Notes...

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How Rocks Are Formed

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Understand Figurative Language

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Starting Over

Starting OverWill Chantale’s brother be able to emigrate from Haiti and join his family in America?1 Chantale sighed and squirmed slightly on the gray metal folding chair. No matter how she sat, there was no way to get comfortable. Her legs were practically numb from sitting for nearly two hours in the uncomfortable seats.2 Both Chantale and Mrs. Jean-Louis had been dreading this visit. Chantale disliked having to translate for her mother, who was uncomfortable in her English-speaking abilities...

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Starting Over Reading Assignment

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The New Americans

The New AmericansWhat are some concerns Americans have about immigration?1. The poem “The New Colossus” is engraved on a bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty. It contains the famous lines “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Many people entering the United States for the first time over a century ago were greeted with these words.2. Over the past 400 years, our nation has seen millions of...

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The New Americans Reading Assignment

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Determine Word Meaning

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Determine Level of Accuracy

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Interpret Scales in Data Displays

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The Professional Protection Officer - Practical Security Strategies And Emerging Trends

The security world is constantly changing, both in the context in which it has to operate, and in terms of what it can offer as a response to a wide range of threats. This is true across the world. Indeed, globalization and the impact of technology are just two trends that have seen to that. As a consequence, security has become more complicated; or, at least, the breadth of knowledge that a good security operative, at any level, needs to draw upon has been stretched.One of the positive...

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Use Units in Formulas

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