I think those questions are somehow blocked, and you should raise them to @coreymac or mail the link of them to contact@mahalo.com. Those questions should have been decided long ago. Apart from that, thank you for wading through those old questions, and voting on them.
I think we have some 2000+ undecided questions to go through... I'll clean up a few myself too. Thanks!
I clicked expiring questions and get a ton from 2009. So I started voting on them (of course worthy answers), thinking it would help award best answers. Doesn't seem to be the case -- How do I vote on questions that are old and need to be voted on?
Examples: http://www.mahalo.com/answers/where-can-i-get-a-walkthrough http://www.mahalo.com/answers/how-old-is-alice-cullen Doesn't say the question is closed, yet no best answer either with votes (as of now) -- Does an answer have to get so many votes? So many answers?
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.