Try doing little things around the house, like vaccuuming in the moring or dusting, helping cook, dust around the house or something and do things for them that they usually do for you, like tidy your room and make your bed and things, because little things like this really make a parent feel happy.
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.