I recently read The Globalization of Eating Disorders by Susan Bordo. It was quite a bit more frightening and engaging to see the impact of it because it included real examples in more than one place in the world. It is different from narrative and persuasive essays because it had proven facts and more than one point of view and was not all based on opinion.
to learn you sometimes need to compete with others, but you can also do things your way and have it be fun at the same time, that is why science tends to be more fun to most