Here's a great step-by-step on how to do exactly that - leolincourt.com/2009/04/how-to-trim-url-... it takes advantage of the existing TwitterTools widget, and basically just hard-codes it to use Tr.im. Currently, the TwitterTools widget just shoots info to twitter on a "shorten at your discretion" basis, this forces it to use Tr.im.
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.