Do most 24 yr olds have a job or are in school...i feel like a LOSER?

Don't worry about it. Graduation rates are pretty low especially for community colleges and they measure the graduation rate on a six year time scale. If you graduate in four years you're doing well better than average.

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.