Lots of kids screw up those first two years of high school, especially freshman year. Your ability to get into a good school will depend on the rigor of your curriculum and the grades you get in those tough classes. You should be able to get into some good state universities and perhaps some medium level private schools.
But those failed courses will work against you because you'll be competing against kids who've aced their classes since freshman year. Once you get to college, however, you start fresh with a clean slate. Only your college grades will count for med school.
So continue to work on upgrading your GPA and plan to include an explanation of those poor grades in your college essays.
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.