Your school is run by idiots. There is something wrong with their network if connecting computers, which all use the same protocols to connect to it, slows it down. They are liars.
Do not believe anything they tell you.
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.