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All through history humans have suffered trying to find food and shelter and the Great Depression is case where millions suffered from starvation. In a period of drought, economic failure, poverty, and agony we saw the development of new ideas that lead to iconic buildings in America and changed architecture in a whole new way. The Art Deco District in Miami showed the intensity of The Great Depression in the 1930s with the rise in crime and poverty. Even through hardships the people of the 1930s created some extravagant work that displays Art Deco architecture with neon colors and gaudy designs.
The stock market crash of 1929 created what is known as the Great Depression and many people were affected from farmers to normal city workers. As the 1930s rolled around the United States already started to see the affect of the stock market crash. “By 1930 over four million people were out of work and this number had doubled at the end of 1931.”(1930). Employment dropped rapidly and farmers went out of business due to banks foreclosing on farmers. The whole country was in shambles with half of the country being stable or wealthy and others starving not being able to find food. People trying to find food turned to soup kitchens were they would be given a very small meal. “When soup kitchens first appeared, they were run buy churches or private charities.” (Depression) and could survive from 1,500 to 3,000 people a day.
American life was much different with radios starting to become popular and the creations of “talkies”. Radios started to become popular “13,750,000 American households had radios a figure that more than doubled in 1939” (1930s). Most people used it as entertainment and a way to get news in the house without news papers...

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