If you get accepted by the University, you get a student visa that allows you to stay here for the duration of your course, and then it's bye-bye. I find it funny that Americans think they can just pack up and leave their country to live somewhere else where they don't have the same attitude towards foreigners. My cousin (British) married an American this year, she can't even get a greencard to live in the US with her US hubby, all she gets is a 3 month tourist visa, has to return to the UK and go back.
At least in Europe we're not so barbaric. Once you're married, you can pretty easily get residence.
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.