Make an effort around the house, ask if they need any help with anything. If you get home in the evenings before they do have dinner ready. What ever you do, DO NOT act like getting your phone back is a big deal, honestly its not.
I didn't have a phone until I was 14 and even then I paid for everything and it was in my name so they had no control over it. The phone is a privilege and should be treated as such.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.