Viva La Vida Analysis

What is your version of the "good life" using three aspects of life and is it the same as the person next to you? Everyone has their own idea of the "ideal life" and no two people have the same exact idea. Some may have the idea of money, clothes, and cars while another may have the idea of family, no death, and a big house. The two individuals have two completely different points of view, interests, likes, dislikes, and aspirations. My version of the "good life" is nothing like the other examples but it is okay because it is supposed to be different. Personally my "ideal life" include having enough money to sustain and be comfortable, having a successful career, and having a lifetime supply of puppies and dogs. There are reasons behind why I have chosen these specific aspects of a possible life and they will be explained in the paragraphs to follow.

Throughout history, there have been countless accounts of empires and kingdoms that have fallen due to power and corruption. Kings and rulers, who were once able to break all laws without any consequences, became shadows of their former selves and were forced to be remembered as failures. The song “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay shows first-hand account of a king, Louis XVI, the last monarch of France, who had fallen prey to the destruction that power can bring. Listeners get a memoir of this king who went from being a the pillar of society to a man whose legacy was tarnished by corruption. Absolute power is able to corrupt even the noblest of hearts and, through the use of metaphor, Coldplay has shown the regression of a king who's was thought to have everything a man wants.

The other example in this short story is Montresor’s ignorance and greed leading to a mental death. He believes that Fortunato has caused him pain by the thousands and seeks revenge on him. His idea of revenge comes from his family symbol where “the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel” with the motto of “Nemo me impune lacessit.” This basically means that anyone who does wrong to us will not get away with it without some form of rebuttal. However, Montresor takes his action a little too far. His greed for revenge becomes a passion. To a point where “Montresor’s obsess[es] with the revenge fifty years after the act” of killing Fortunato. Even before the act, he had to think of

Coldplay uses hyperbole to show how the “king” had abused his powers. The text states, “I used to rule the world¨(Coldplay 1). When the poet exclaims how he used to rule the world, he is exaggerating how important he was. Simply because, no

To continue to develop my multicultural competencies through awareness and knowledge. I chose to finish reading the book Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories (2007). The stories I identified with this time actually went with my individual plan of change, mentoring. The mentors in each of these three-individual’s lives were their mothers. I could relate to this because my mother was my best friend who I trusted and love to guide me too. The multicultural skill developed here was: capability to empathize and genuinely connect with individuals who are culturally different from myself. I connected with these individual in several ways from the background we each grew up in. Such as our families struggling with drug addiction,

Power Power is something many people yearn for and will do anything to achieve, but once you've achieved power over others, what would happen if you slowly started to lose it? The Count of Monte Cristo tells that story of a young man who was arrested for false pretences and his quest for vengeance through the use of his power. Similarly Viva La Vida tells the story of a man who used to be king, but whose power was taken away from him. In The Count of Monte Cristo and Viva La Vida both the author and songwriter use plot and diction to emphasize the idea that power is something many wish for but once obtained it still does not make you all powerful.

This poem contains historical and christian references, and the track is built around a repeating string section, it is also a form of Lyrical poetry. And as in all Lyrical poems, this poem has rhythm, rhyme, metaphors, repetition,alliteration, etc. For example, in the line “It was the wicked and wild wind” there's alliteration, also in “I hear the Jerusalem bells ringing” it says that four times, and that's what you call repetition. Anyways, let's continue from that “Viva La Vida” meaning live long life has to do with the fact that he had a good long rich life while he was king and In the poem the narrator tells about his journey when he was king and how he lost that and now he was a

When considering how the good political life should be guided, it is imperative to consider ethical, empirical, and prudential components. From an ethical perspective, the ideal political world is created to evaluate how a system should function as well as how actors should behave and prevail (Riemer 74). A "good life" from this view point would be based on only ideals which cannot encapsulate the entire truth of a political system, but is still relevant to the evaluation of its whole. From a more realistic perspective, the empirical component focuses on what really happens and the actual values held in a community including the behavior of those running the political system (74). Political scientists who focus on empirical practices are mastering

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The song has a strong message about how our generations do not know the impact we have on society and government. With this song, he intended to create a feeling of power that we did not know we had.

This movie is about a little boy and girl that grow up together; they fall in love with the game of basketball and each other. They didn't really get along as they grew up because the boy, Q, didn't think it was ok for girls to play ball. They go through a series of trials and they separate and find their way back to each other. In the end he realizes she is the one for him. This is seen in our society today because when you do something you love, there are others that love it to. These two characters have that connection between the two of the one thing that they love. They didn't let "love for the game" stand in the way of "true love".

We are living in a time of increasingly fast technological advances. As we become more and more advanced, people are abandoning the physical hard copy books for E-readers in increasingly large numbers. E-Readers have several advantages over physical books. To name a few, they are smaller and lighter, can hold multiple books at a time, and can be backlit to help read in the dark. We are interested in looking at some perceptual differences between when a person reads a book and when they read on an E-reader and more specifically, we want to measure whether an individual’s perception of time changes based on the medium in which they are receiving information. As technology proliferates throughout our daily lives, it would be important to understand the effect it has on our perception of time. Studying this could help to understand the relationship between perceived time when reading a physical material and perceived time reading on a screen, which could help us efficiently use our time.

Is it better to fade away or to go out with a bang? When a former athlete or man of success sits pondering his glory days, what is his thought process? Perhaps he continues to simply subsist and reminisce on his past. Other men refuse to fade away like this. They continue on in life with a positive mind set not only about the past but, also the future. Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses” takes on this mindset. “Ulysses” conveys three messages to the reader about the process of growing old.

This sonnet is a remarkable pastiche of the song "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay, which has been modified by Erik Didriksen. The poet "rewrite[s] pop songs as sonnets" in "[a]n exciting and fun project that demonstrates the ongoing appeal of the English sonnet" titled as Pop Sonnets (David Hadbawnik). Seeing that the poem is written as a Shakespearean sonnet; it is consisted of 14 lines that are grouped into three quatrains: 4 lines, and one couplet: 2 lines, and is written in an iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ababcdcdefefgg, which is called cross-rhyme. All the quatrains are end-stopped, which is "the opposite of enjambment, punctuation ending the sense with the lines," however, the quatrains have internal enjambments (Lennard

Many history aficionados are aware that, for several millennia, civilizations have flourished into gargantuan empires only to dwindle into corruption and ultimately meet their demise. Coldplay’s critically acclaimed “Viva La Vida” embodies this very concept. The song was inspired by the Mexican phrase of the same name, meaning “long live life.” It provides a considerably deep narrative that involves a once-esteemed monarch reminiscing about his golden age upon the throne, and detailing how his transition toward totalitarianism ultimately caused the citizens to seek retribution through a coup d’état (“Viva La Vida”). The song debuted in early May of 2008 and was initially exclusive to Apple’s iTunes Store for nearly three months until Coldplay released a proper music video alongside a CD single at the end of July. Having been the best-selling song on iTunes for the entirety of 2008, there is little doubt that it has reached a vast and diverse audience (“Viva La Vida”). A plethora of bands has written covers of “Viva La Vida,” attempting to convey similar themes to the ones that Coldplay established while applying their own musical expertise and twists to craft a fresh and interesting experience. To analyze the many contrasts present among these covers, this paper will scrutinize three approaches: Coldplay’s original version, a variation performed by Future Idiots, and one presented by Sofia Karlberg.