Good Q Blaq! I'll give you a much shorter response on this one! If everything was perfect 100% of the time on earth, there would be no need to search for God.
On that note, if everything was perfect and we were free of sin and catastrophic events, we'd actually be in heaven...Natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc) are in fact acts of God. You just can't say that they aren't... God doesn't' want to hurt people, but I believe that he'd like us as humans to act as Jesus did. He desires that we act selflessly to do what is best for our fellow man.
Calamities give humans the ability to help others and in turn do work that inspired by God. In order to do God's work, one must have faith in God...Those in Haiti may have had their doubts that God existed after the recent course of events. I believe that those who donated their time, money and efforts illustrated that God does exist.
Those that received were recipeints of his grace, while those that gave acted as God would like us all to act and did/are doing so with great vigor. Passion to do good is in fact God's inspired strength and love...All we have to do is tap into it. In terms of children dying of thirst, that is 100% man-driven greed.
Let's take Africa for example. Africa, with all of its natural resources, should be the most lucrative continent on the planet. But, as we all know, Africa is also one of the most corrupt continents on the planet.
With that said "the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor." Those who suffer under these conditions will be rewarded, while those who hoard and abuse power will have some questions to answer when all is said and done...It all comes down to accountability...
If you really want to know the answer to this question then join a good Bible group. In short, this world is on a limited amount of time, and while it exist it will be full of suffering, missery, death, and sickness as it is a world that has turned from God and is under sin. So such things such as dying of thirst and other sadnesses are clearly spelled out as going to happen...not that God wanted such a thing but sin has to take its course.
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.