They're nice, cute, quiet, don't require tons of money or patience, they're fun to play with, relatively easy to clean up after, don't require much space. Start saving up some money to help, that's what helped with getting my gecko, and my dad said he's "proud of me for being responsible", so now I think I'm going to get a snake as well because he believes I'm responsible. You could also make a deal with her that if you aren't clearly taking care of it she can bring it back to the pet store.
Wait untill theres only 1 left then ask thats how I got my tiger salamander there were few left and they were only there on Christmas.
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.