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Reflection Page The most interesting thing I learned about my decade is the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The reason I found this interesting is because the family got shot in 1918 and no one knew about this execution until 1990. Some people thought two of the children made it through the execution and lived. However scientists looked into this theory and found that it is not true everybody in the Nicholas family died. I find it sad that no one knew about the execution until 1990. Another thing that I found interesting in this decade is how many life’s were lost on Titanic. Almost half of the 2,437 passengers died in this tragic accident. There were a bunch of third class and crew members then there were first and second class. The main reason for this is because most people back then weren’t very wealthy, therefore they couldn’t buy first and second class tickets. Second and third class were treated poorly because they weren’t as wealthy as first class. America has changed since my decade because if something like what happened in 1912(Titanic) people today wouldn’t know how to react/prepare for such a tragic event. Also today we have cell phones that allow us to simply text someone instead of calling them or just simply writing them a letter. Another way America has changed is because we have HD TV’s now and back in 1910 there were no TV’s. The hardware and/or software problems I encountered while working on this eighth grade exit project were, blocked websites. Every time I thought I had found a great resource website but, then the website was blocked! I solved this problem by skipping a year and waiting until the next day to see if the website were unblocked. Technology is changing in our society by everyone having cell phones and texting one another. I know that a lot of older people get agitated when children text another person but there in the same room. Pretty soon schools won’t have any textbooks all of the text books will be online. Personally I think that is a better way because that way a student can’t tear up the textbooks.