The Distance Between Us

The award-winning writer Reina Grande, in intermediate level adaptation of "Distance between us" - "Important explanation of multiple immigration laws affecting children", her own beyond borders and culture Sharing experiences. Evaluation of stars)

When her parents pursued American dreams and pursued dangerous and illegal hiking at the Mexican border, when parents were waiting for their parents to build up their new lives, Reina and her brothers and sisters got their severe grandmother I was forced to live with him.

But when things did not go as planned, Reina was preparing her for her trip to El Otro Rod who herself lived with a man who had troubled imagination for years It was. Interesting and painful "Our distance" reveals immigration experience and captures the wonderful experience of Reyna and her brothers and sisters in their efforts to absorb the intercultural, language and family life of El Otro Lado I will. Struggle

There is a concept of distance between each of us. Geographical beliefs, distance between needs and geography But the distance between us is also very difficult. In a sense, each of us lives in a small Silicon Valley; it is always isolated from the people around us. When I say something or write something, I need time to find you. The longer I go, the longer I have to go. Even if I were in front of you, my words will still take time to reach your ears, will be digested by your ideas and will react your body. Of course, we still can hear, see, smell, we can still have a sense of movement; but the distance seems to turn our input red. The delay time will be long enough, such as 20 milliseconds, which is the fastest human response time on the planet, and conversation will be interrupted. Switching to the CB protocol is required for 70 ms or more. These are our agreement, our telephone network, numbers in our culture

Hello. We began to realize that the origin of Bertie's stuttering is related to his growth, and partly to his father's ruthless attitude. This narrows the emotional distance between us and the royal family because we each have at least some doubts about our childhood experience.

I never stopped moving forward, like keeping some distance between time itself, or of course, that terrible day. Most of the people who lived in 1963 will disappear within a generation and for this country the prospect of a complete resolution seems to disappear further every 11 months. However, as long as the generation living in the Dallas breath still is, someone will propose the possibility of suppressed or ignored information for a long time. Donahue received anecdotes on three different occasions, but his theory was confirmed without confirmation. Perhaps other people are released from the stress of history and may not want much to decide to solve the problem at the end.