With google it may take time to approve your adsense account as you only using hubpages. If you had a website google will generally approve you straigh away. One trick you can do to get you adsense approved I have see it work is to create a blogger account (google blog service) this should get your adsense approved within day or so.
Not sure about Kontera as I am not using it.
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.