I had a boss in a previous job that was always giving me good advice. One thing he said to me when I complained about another persons work once was, "If you could do better, you'd be the one in charge." So, after that I stopped complaining.
=-P If she's passive aggressive or rude as you say though, she make just take offense to a comment like that and bother you more. I guess there could be a more delicate way to put it perhaps.
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.