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ESMERALDA'S HISTORICAL CONTEXT
This has been a huge issue for a long time, but it has been a bigger effect on those who live in South America and Asia. The resources that are exposed to those people are really low. The do not have clean filtered water; each day is lived without knowing if there’s food for the following day. This issue has always existed and gradually becoming worse over time because other countries take resources that those places have. For instance, Africa used to produce a lot of gold. Ironically, the place who has the most gold is the one who has the biggest population of child hunger. UNICEF, states that nearly 1.5 million children across western African countries are near starvation because of a drought. It is unbelievable to analyze that the United States and other developed countries have much food that is disposed of and then there are children who are near starvation.
Child hunger outgrew the most during the great depression, the great depression was an economical downfall in North America, Europe, and other areas of the world that lasted ten years: from 1929 to 1939. It was such a prolonged economic recession in the western hemisphere. “During the great depression from 1929 to 1932 the unemployment rate had decreased by 54 percent.” Since the unemployment rate decreased there was not money to feed families and so many children died. In this particular time the western hemisphere was going through a change that lead families to poverty. Banks wiped out people’s savings. There was a bank in New York who would offered incoming guests if they wanted a room to sleep in or commit suicide by freefalling from a window. It was a very sad depressing stage in the western world. There was no hope for children who were born during the 1929 to 1939.
Child hunger outgrew the most during the great depression, the great depression was an economical downfall in North America, Europe, and other areas of the world that lasted ten years: from 1929 to 1939. It was such a prolonged economic recession in the western hemisphere. “During the great depression from 1929 to 1932 the unemployment rate had decreased by 54 percent.” Since the unemployment rate decreased there was not money to feed families and so many children died. In this particular time the western hemisphere was going through a change that lead families to poverty. Banks wiped out people’s savings. There was a bank in New York who would offered incoming guests if they wanted a room to sleep in or commit suicide by freefalling from a window. It was a very sad depressing stage in the western world. There was no hope for children who were born during the 1929 to 1939.