Make em pay. In my experience if you let them walk all over you they will, and then you'll never have a chance because there's no respect. You're there to do a job, and if your boss found it you could be in the sh1t too lol.
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.