Don't know about best practices, but __get comes extremely useful when you need a property to be lazy loaded, e.g. When getting it involves a complex calcification or a db query. Moreover, php provides an elegant way to cache the response by simply creating an object field with the same name, which prevents the getter to be called again.
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.