Soap Operas

One day you're in the office and overhear a conversation that sounds like really juicy gossip, but you don't know any of the people your friends are talking about. Suddenly you realize they are talking about a Soap Opera they watch. You feel totally left out of the fun, so you go home and set up your DVR to record it. You watch it,... more »

Soap operas are the a guilty pleasure of millions of viewers. But for the uninitiated, following a soap plot is confusing. Characters behave scandalously and their relationships are hopelessly complicated. To muddy things further, soap plot twists are highly improbable. But these things are what make soap operas entertaining. There... more »

Working in television is a fast paced, high pressure but rewarding career. You can work in front of the camera or behind the camera as a videographer, sound person or editor, or you can fix the television equipment as an engineer. These jobs are almost never in the newspaper because the field is highly competitive. The Internet has... more »

Producers, directors, graphics experts, camera people and editors work as a creative team to produce a television show. Getting a job in the television production industry requires special skills learned at a technical or four-year college and then on the job. People pursuing careers in this field spend several years in entry-level... more »

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the rise of Spain as a world power spread its culture and language around the globe. In the 21st century, Spain remains one of Europe's economic powers, while its language has achieved official status in most nations of Central and South America, and Equatorial Guinea in Africa, and is widely spoken in... more »