My Pinterest Research

I have found that Pinterest is a different yet interesting way of researching topics for speeches.  Many people post personal photos and stories about a variety of topics on the social media site.  For example, my topic for the Problem/Policy speech was on the dangers of post concussion symptoms, and from Pinterest I found many stories of teenage athletes who suffered from the symptoms.  This was helpful, because I not only knew the symptoms that I had from my concussions, but because many people have different symptoms, their stories are very helpful when researching.  Also, the different stories help, because different symptoms occur when hitting different parts of the head.  For example, I hit the front of my head, or the frontal lobe, and the back of my head, or the occipital lobe.  Because I hit my frontal lobe, which holds the emotions and personality, both of these characteristics changed in me.  I became very emotional all the time, and very angry towards other people.  Because I hit my occipital lobe, which is associated with visual processing, my vision became bad, and I had to wear glasses to see far away.  All of these facts were found through my research on Pinterest, and I believe that it was a large factor in my speeches!