Essays And Poems On Past And Current Events

About the Book

This book is a collection of some essays and poems written by Felipe B. Nery for the past fifty years or more while we was a college student fulfilling his assignments and doing his homework or contributing materials to the Lusitans Bulletin.

The materials chosen for this book are deemed by Felipe B. Nery to spark the interest of many readers. The areas in which he believes would interest his readers are:

Economics: jobs, pension, pay scale, and health care

Environment: pollution, global warming, pesticide, carbon dioxide

Food: hunger (starvation), safe food (organic), worldwide distribution of food.

Rights: human rights, gay rights, affirmative action

Abortion: Roe V. Wade

Health: universal healthcare, Medicare prescription drug costs, flu vaccine, WHO

Research: stem cell research

Water: better quality of drinking water

Education: Making education available to everyone, especially with emphasis on math and science.

Felipe assures his readers that he generally conducts a careful analysis of each material to determine which ones would affect his audience the most before using them for this book.

About the Author

Felipe B. Nery was born in Shanghai, China of Macanese parents. The Macanese race was originated in the once Portuguese Colony of Macau. It comprised of the union of a Portuguese individual with the natives of Macau during the period when Portugal was granted the use of Macau, between 1557 and 1999 roughly about 442 years when employing it as a trading post. On December 20, 1999 Macau was officially returned to China by Portugal and the Macanese race was consequently involved in what is described as a Diaspora which separated them permanently from Macau.

Felipe B. Nery and his wife left Shanghai in 1950 after the takeover of Shanghai by the Chinese Communist regime. He and his wife settled temporarily in Macau pending their emigration to the U.S.A. In the U.S.A. Felipe first worked for Oceanic Forwarded Co. then he worked for Wm. Zappetini and Co. (a wholesale florist) and C.J. Worth Drayage Co. He finally worked for the California State Public Utilities Commission, Transportation Division.

For 22 years Felipe attended college in the evenings and achieved a Bachelor of Science Degree in Transportation. He has written and published three books and an autobiography.