Your the one who needs to change that no one can help you really. I take it your not in school anymore so this is a little bit harder than most cases we my advice to you is to be helpful around your work area when sally drops a paper, pick it up and smile (practice smiling because if you don't know how to do it, you look weird at least you can come across as pleasant then you can let the conversations come to you like "so ___ want to go to lunch later" idk what you would be asked but someone will talk to you sooner or later eventually more people will talk to you and you can work on starting conversations yourself and help other people like yourself sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors.
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.