The 10th Kingdom

The king was forced by his parents to marry her just to combine kingdoms and make peace. But only if there parents knew. On their island they knew of one kind hearted dragon who was the color of ice and had eyes the color of fire. This dragon lived in their backyard because they made a deal with the dragon. The queen stated that “if you provide us with the protection of your strength and fire we will return the favor of food and safety.” The dragon only agreed because on this island food was very scarce. So the dragon protected them from villagers who threatened to kick them off their throne and in return the dragon got a feast. But one faithful day the king who wasn’t doing well decided to hurt the dragon because he thought he wasn’t doing enough to protect them. The king did this because the king 's favorite…

In the Grimm’s Snow White tale, a queen wishes for a daughter that is “as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood” (Little Snow White). However, upon her daughter’s birth, the queen dies and her daughter is left to an atrocious step mother who is obsessed with being the most beautiful female in the land and once a magic mirror proclaimed that Snow White is the most beautiful in the land, the evil stepmother became incredibly envious, ordering a huntsman to murder Snow White.…

She comes back to life and just in the Grimm’s version, tricks Snow White into eating apples, but in this case filled with blood and poison because she wants her castle to be safe. This shows in the story when the Queen says, “As long as the heart hung, silent and immobile and cold, from the beam of my chamber, I was safe, and so were the folk of the forest, and, thus, eventually, the folk of the town.” (Gaiman). The queen wants Snow White dead not out of envy but to protect her kingdom from…

movie takes a very different approach to how they meet. It doesn’t even mention a house. Instead they meet because they have a grudge against the huntsman, who is traveling with Snow White, and the dwarfs end up capturing them both. One of the big parts of the story that is changed is the part where the queen disguises herself to try to kill Snow White. The queen tries to do this a total of three times in the story. She first tried to choke Snow White with a lace. Then she attempted to poison…

Once upon a time I was in an enclosed elevator in Hecht Residential College at the University of Miami. As I stood there, I noticed several interesting things, such as everyone who entered were either already on their phones or immediately took them out, all not brave enough to interrupt the awkward silence. I was particularly intrigued by the resident assistants, dressed in fishnet stockings and morph suits, handing out candy to each student who entered the elevator. They were the only ones…

From her double personality mirror, to her rehearsed transformation, to her magically brewed poisoned apple, the Queen's magic was a productive aspect of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She magically invented her mirror to talk to her. The double-sided mirror normally told it's creator that she was the most beautiful woman in the kingdom; but one day it told her that her stepdaughter was the fairest in the land. Likewise, she wondrously transformed herself into a witch so that she…

The New Zealand Army!? What the heck is that? That was my initial thought when I was told that I would be deploying to Afghanistan to manage a property book of equipment that was being utilized by the New Zealand Army. Let me take you back on the events that transpired that led me to this deployment. 25 July 2011, I signed into Ft Riley, Kansas. HHC Company, Combat Aviation Brigade, First Infantry Division. I was in the S2 shop as the Terrain NCOIC. I was enjoying my time there in my position…

The african elephant lies in the phylum chordata because it has tissues, and a coelom. Along with having these two attributes, it is bilaterally symmetrical and also possesses a dorsal,tubular nerve cord and a postanal tail. It lies in the class Mammalia because it possess hair which is made of keratin, the hair provides insulation. It is endothermic (the majority of the heat energy is used to maintain their high body temperature). It has a 4 chamber heart. They also have mammary glands that are…

Two new fossil representatives of plant bugs of the family Miridae that belong to the subfamily Psallopinae: Psallops eocenicus sP. nov. and Psallops bitterfeldi sP. nov. from Baltic amber (Upper Eocene) are described as new specimens. These representatives of Psallopinae are one of the oldest fossil bugs of the recent genus Psallops to be known to date. Keywords Heteroptera, Miridae, Psallopoinae, Psallops, new species, Eocene Baltic amber. Introduction The extinct Psallopinae are important for…

Narrative Essay What do you consider a challenge? Maybe hitting more home runs, running faster, beating your time running barrels, or maybe training an animal. I wanted to train a donkey. Training the donkey would be a challenge, but I had always wanted to make a career of training horses and other equines. This experience taught me to be patient and not give up. Christmas was just around the corner when I was given my donkey. I named him Solomon. He was given to me by my grandmother…