The sharing economy is an ⓵economic system based on sharing

assets or services, for free or for a fee, directly from and between

individuals. ⓶Named in 2011 by TIME Magazine as one of the 10

ideas that would change the world, the economic model is now

transforming the landscape of the world economy. There are five

key concepts of the sharing economy. Here you can read about

them, along with appropriate case stories casting light on what

the sharing economy is and how it works.

   

The Internet Made All the Difference

Two young men in San Francisco ⓷was so poor they could not

pay their rent, so they thought to rent out three air mattresses

on their floor to people and serve them breakfast. They made a

simple website to promote their little bed and breakfast, and

three people ⓸showed up, each paying $80. After the guests left,

they thought this could be a big idea. Now their website offers

250,000 rooms in 30,000 cities in 192 countries. What they ⓹started

was a whole new business model providing a platform for the

sharing economy

   

   

1️⃣ Insects have free-flowing hemolymph.

2️⃣ Each of the insects’ body segments has its own individual brain.

3️⃣ Insects take in air automatically through breathing holes.

4️⃣ There are a few ways insect bodies function differently from our own.

5️⃣ Insects’ outer covering helps to prevent their small bodies from the hydrating.

Puppet shows have always been popular across the world.

There is, however, [2.something] special about puppet shows in Turkey.

In the popular puppet theater in Turkey, the puppets are not clearly visible.

Rather, they are shadowy.

Shadow puppet theater is known to [3.have been] very popular with the public between the 17th and 19th centuries in Turkey.

Puppet figures in the shadow theater [4.are made of] camel hide in the shape of people or things.

They [5.hold] on rods in front of a light to cast their shadows onto a cotton screen.