I see some people are able to specify certain topics when people ask them direct questions...How would I do that?

This is apparently a relic of an earlier version of the Mahalo member page. Thus, if you were a member a long enough time ago, you could do it. If like me you joined after Mahalo did away with it, you're S.O.L.:).

In fact, when I asked a similar question a while back I was told that Mahalo may even do away with it from those who still have it from long ago, but that has not yet happened (low priority, I'd guess). You can still put that into the text where you can edit what you want to say about yourself though.

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.