The 'competition' were planning an armed and bloody coup, involving the mass-murder of senators in the Forum, and killing opposing factions supporters in their homes. He was briefly made to live well outside Rome, and his properties were confiscated and destroyed, but in a political turn-around his main opponent was brought under control and Cicero returned to the Forum. This was the 'Calaline' conspiracies.
First and second. Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catiline#F... The careers of Cataline and Cicero went back a long way, and events were bound up in the history of a rogue general called Sulla who had run a military dictatorship years earlier.
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.