For a few hundred more you can get a cheap mahalo.com/laptop laptop to which you'll be able to do anything you want. The mahalo.com/iPad iPad is almost like a wanna-be computer but it's not. So if you want it all, get a cheap laptop.
I think that's where the iPad is more a toy than a good product to buy.
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.