Your best would be grabbing a cheap messenger back from a retail store/ebay. I myself got one from (www.ebay.com) for around 12 bucks + shipping and i'm very pleased as a college student. It's basically a mixture of a backpack and a suitcase while being very affordable.
Mine currently has a sleeve behind the main compartment (Main compartment being where the laptop is held) and two frontal sleeves with 3 pencil holders and a zip compartment. And it also has a thick durable strap so it's honestly hard to ever forget about it since I feel naked without it Haaa.
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.