Blog Post 4/6

I have played in several tennis tournaments and have watched them on TV.  In those tournaments, there are seedings.  Some players do better than there expected to (according to seeding).  Some seeded players have upsets.  This reminds me of how there are upsets with Roman emperors in Latin.  I cannot believe that the great Augustus lost in the first round but his opponent sure had a cool video made for him.  I talked about Elagabalus and he lost early but he was not expected to go far in the tournament anyways.  There are some strange but interesting facts about Elagabalus.

Latin in Religion

In my World Religions class, we were discussing the Jewish conception of God and his power. He is described as omnipotent and omniscient. Both of these words reminded me of Latin because they included the prefix omni- meaning "all". Omnipotent, meaning all powerful, which is made up of omni and the verb posse meaning "to be able". Omniscient, meaning all knowing, is made up of all and the verb scio, meaning "to know".

Latin Everyday - Tennis Amphitheaters

     I went to a town in California called Palm Springs over Spring Break. My family and I played tennis there, but we also saw a tennis tournament in a stadium. This reminded me of when we were learning about The Colosseum and how it was an amphitheater. The Tennis stadium looked and behaved very much the same because It was shaped like an ellipse, and the stands rose upwards away from a Tennis court in the center. Two players also dueled each other by playing Tennis, just like how gladiators might have fought each other in The Colosseum. There were vendors selling food in the stands too, which was given for free in the Roman times.

Here is a picture of a Stadium similar to the one I was at:

4/6 Latin Everyday

The other day, I was watching some Geometry notes and looked at my graph that the teacher in the video was filling out. She was numbering the quadrants in the counterclockwise but not in the method I assumed. Even though I knew how it was done, she instead filled it with the Roman numerals which I had already known, but I never really pieced together as something worthy of this blog post. I simply just realized a daily part of my life within class such as Geometry or Physics is the Cartesian coordinate graph, which also has a blend of Latin in it, displaying its significance within the daily life and its ability to compliment other areas of learning and life even.

Great Expectations

In the book Great Expectations,  the character Pip is thinking back to his encounter with his friend Estella and how someone told him "Do not go home" and he says the following, "It became a vast shadowy word I had to conjugate. Imperative mood, present tense." This connects to Latin because we are learning about moods and know how to present tense conjugates out.

Rosette Museum

Outside of the GPAC during the Rosette show was a big collum that said "Rosettes Est Vlll" This is supposed to mean "Rosettes is 8" because it is the 8th year and 8th annual show for our team. This connects to Latin because of the word "est" meaning is and the Roman numeral Vll meaning 8.