Urban Exploration As History Analysis

In the article titled “Urban Exploration as History” by DCINRUINS it describes the importance of our disused, abandoned, and decaying structures in the Washington, DC metro area. The writers states, the difference between decay and urban decay, that one, decay is a “natural order which lays bare the futility in man’s arrangements of steel, wood, and stone to build a fanciful roof over his head which celebrates his own glory, to manipulate his hostile environment in his own image.” While, urban decay is “the process by which the indoors becomes, in halting, dramatic steps, the outdoors.” The history of the ruins is a historical structure that can be seen as a remembrance of time that was disguised from the past and presents. For example, most

I was able to learn how to read and investigate primary sources that includes documentary, and letter from a Revolution in 1775, a forgeign invasion in 1814, and a debilitating Civil War in 1861. The United States was developed with many important activist leaders who advocate their rights and freedom of having changes in culturally, socially and economically. For instance, food plays a major role in history because it tells us how culturally things are changed and how its being used. Although, we question how do food tell us about our past and how it shapes us from our present? Just like DCinruins it talks about how historical structure are now decay, food can be decayed by telling us how it was served in 1920, the ideal frozen meal for many families, the invention of cereal that was influence before WW2 and the time difference that women spent cooking in the past versus now in the present that women only spend less than 30 mins. Another way how different forces through history have driven changes in the United States is how women socially influence other women to change the tradition roles when they were affected throughout the two World Wars. Many women including Anne Hutchinson brought attention to the Cotton Spirit Centered in the meetings and she was banned along with her family. Hutchinson also encouraged other women to speak up because of

Today the Forest Haven remains as a vacant building, abandoned for twenty years, and a government property. The shutdown of the Forest Haven was due to the court order in 1991 on charges of systemic negligence. The author describes the place as an urban exploration is a lark where you still hear echoes of patients, feel thick evening breeze and hear adult contemporary music. This piece of building makes today ruin because it was destroyed by many doctors, nurse who had little ideas about these leftover patients that are classified as mentally retarded or had a dangerous