Wow - are you ever lucky to have a place there! You will find plenty of young people there, but they will also be working hard. You won't have to search - just go to a beach or a bar.
Employers will snap you up, because their main problem is finding lodging for their summer employees. If your parents would allow it, you might consider taking a couple of friends with you to work - you could have quite a summer.
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.