Speech on the Word Memory
Megan Romano
5/16/13 Pd. C
Honors English 10
To begin my speech, I have a question to ask the audience. Does anyone remember what they had for breakfast yesterday? Between the yes’s, no’s, and in-between’s having breakfast the previous day is stored in your memory. First, what do you think about when you hear the word “memory”? Memory, by definition, is the process by which information is enclosed, stored, and retrieved. Pertaining to the fields of psychology and biology memory is like a file cabinet storing events, words, and phrases in the brain as if they were organized files. One’s memory is an essential piece of a person’s character and personality. With both good and bad memories, children are molded into the future adults they will become. Memory is used by the human brain to remember simple as well as complex information, and life changing events in one’s life. And once a memory is filed and stored, it never leaves the file cabinet.
There will always be the simple things in life you will always remember. Your house address and the digits of your home number are two bits of information that will always be stored in your memory. Remember the times tables we had to memorize in the third grade? To this day I can guarantee that everyone knows the answer to 6x4 and 7x9. It’s as easy as 24 and 63. And how could you forget all the states in capitals in the fourth grade? How many of you can remember the capitals to Alaska and New York? It’s as easy as Juno and Albany. Simple information such as times tables and State capitals are two of the many examples of easily retained information that was given to you a long time ago. Not only old information, but new information is stored well in your brain’s file cabinet.
Memory is one of the many helpful tools of high school. The key to studying correctly is memorizing the needed information for an upcoming test or graded class assignment. Between studying for a huge history test in AP US History or a vocab quiz in
5/16/13 Pd. C
Honors English 10
To begin my speech, I have a question to ask the audience. Does anyone remember what they had for breakfast yesterday? Between the yes’s, no’s, and in-between’s having breakfast the previous day is stored in your memory. First, what do you think about when you hear the word “memory”? Memory, by definition, is the process by which information is enclosed, stored, and retrieved. Pertaining to the fields of psychology and biology memory is like a file cabinet storing events, words, and phrases in the brain as if they were organized files. One’s memory is an essential piece of a person’s character and personality. With both good and bad memories, children are molded into the future adults they will become. Memory is used by the human brain to remember simple as well as complex information, and life changing events in one’s life. And once a memory is filed and stored, it never leaves the file cabinet.
There will always be the simple things in life you will always remember. Your house address and the digits of your home number are two bits of information that will always be stored in your memory. Remember the times tables we had to memorize in the third grade? To this day I can guarantee that everyone knows the answer to 6x4 and 7x9. It’s as easy as 24 and 63. And how could you forget all the states in capitals in the fourth grade? How many of you can remember the capitals to Alaska and New York? It’s as easy as Juno and Albany. Simple information such as times tables and State capitals are two of the many examples of easily retained information that was given to you a long time ago. Not only old information, but new information is stored well in your brain’s file cabinet.
Memory is one of the many helpful tools of high school. The key to studying correctly is memorizing the needed information for an upcoming test or graded class assignment. Between studying for a huge history test in AP US History or a vocab quiz in