The fastest and easiest way to speed up the start up of you laptop is to wait for it to boot completely, Then click on the start button. Click run, and type "msconfig" without the quotes of course. Then across the top look for the startup tab and select it.
Then there will be a list of everything that starts with the laptop on boot. Things like adobe gamma, and reader_sl can be unchecked right away. Anything that you don't recognize look up on google, it will tell you exactly what it does.
Then just uncheck the things that you don't use very often. Failing that, install more ram.
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.