Did my friend actually inhale particles of Benjamin Franklin?

It is because you lack self knowledge. This comes with awareness and attention to your thoughts and feelings. You might be too young to understand this but your actions come from thoughts.

Some are conscious, some unconscious, Learning about yourself by being attentive to how you feel is the way.

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.