The best strategy I've found has been to create all the controls in the Page_Init event, and set their Visible property to false (in Page_Load in your case) if they aren't supposed to be present on the rendered page.
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.