Regarding a cheat sheet, try starting with C-h be . That will show you all the active keybindings, and you can drill down to find out what each of them does in more depth.
This answer gives you a few alternatives for the beginning-of-non-whitespace function (with slightly different behaviours for comments and what happens if you do it twice).
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.