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Hussain Al mutawa
Mrs.Debra Dagher
UWRT-1101
1 October 2015
Self-Authorship
I am a 19 years old male, from Saudi Arabia. I am Mechanical engineer; the reason why I
decided to be a mechanical engineer is physics. I love physics and I am good at it, unlike
the other Sciences. I was born a Muslim, I am still Muslim and I believe in Islam, the
more I grow up the more I gain knowledge about Islam. I love to explore and read about
other religion, especially monotheistic religions. My family thinks I am secretive person;
I do not like to share everything with my friends, cousins and even my family. I believe it
got originated from myself, I think because I did not see the need or the necessity to share
my stories or what happens in my life with other person. Also my family says I am
stubborn because I do not listen to them, when I say I do not listen to them I do not mean
I disobey them or disrespect them. For example they tell me to try a specific food, but I
refuse to try it and they keep insisting on me, I tell them I do not want to eat it. However I
love them very much, even after every argument we have. What I value the most is
financial gain, I would like to be financially stable, because money sometimes can be
obstacle and I do not want to be on debt. Also I value knowledge, because I am kind a
guy who likes to know everything that I am interested at, for example space, building car
and motorcycle and religions. And I value Creativity, I try my best to make my project or
anything I do to be perfect, creative and unique from other people. In my life I have lost
people, chances and hated people, places. I have lost my grandfather, he was a wise man,

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it is been 5 moths since he died. I have lost the chance to join the strongest university in
my region that is in Saudi Arabia. I also hate Walmart, because it is always crowded
place, it is chaos and it is not organized. I hate my biology teacher; he is boring and does
not teach us very well. However I found and loved lots of things, I love my mother, she is
so kind, supportive and she is always there for me. I love the first month of Hijri
calendar, which is Islamic calendar and there is two reasons why I love the first month,
first, it has its own environment and it feels different, second, this month is special
because, a great man in Islam has been killed or sacrificed himself in that month, his
name is Imam Hussain and other great men have been killed. I love my physics teacher,
he is always exited, and his class was not boring. Before coming to the United States of
America, I found a good ticket, a good airline and surprisingly the airline was the one that
I wanted it, it was cheap. When I was 16 my vision was getting weak, therefore I went to
the store to buy glasses and I found the best glasses, luckily it was on sale. My top
character strengths are self-control and self-regulation, there is a story about selfcontrolling, once a time I was at Baskin Robins with my friends, one of my friend
ordered vanilla with hot chocolate, however the employee said the chocolate is not hot
enough, we have cold chocolate and my friend said okay, however the employee put
chocolate syrup instead of cold chocolate. We did not know at that time, we left the store
and my friend tasted the ice cream. My friend did not like it, we got back and we asked
the employee, it does not taste like a chocolate, the employee was surprised. We told him
this is not chocolate but he kept insisting that he put chocolate, we asked him to taste it,
and however he refused. We were arguing for 15 minutes, at the end he made us a new
ice cream. However he said that the customer is always wrong and that made me angry,

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but I calmed myself down and I left. My second top character strength is curiosity and
interest in the world, I am person who is curios about everything, for example five

months ago I was curios about languages, I was asking my self how did we end up with
so many languages and I started searching on the internet. It was hard to find an answer,
however I found new information that every language share some words from other
languages. Since I am Muslim, I believe in god and since I am a curio about everything, I
read about evolution theory, monotheistic religion and after reading everything, my belief
in god got much stronger. I believe everything happens to me for my own good. At the
end, it was difficult and fun to write about myself. I wrote everything that I know about
myself and even after writing this essay; I did not discover anything new about myself.
But it was difficult task to write an essay about myself, because I had to look back on my
life to know and to describe myself.

Feedback
1.Feelings: Glad, comfortable ad interested
2. Questions: - Why do you say you did not discover anything new about yourself?
- Is physics the only science you like?
- How did you feel about losing you grandfather? Was/is it Hard?