Yes, there are schools that will take you with a 3.0 GPA. Please find someone at your school who can explain all of this to you. You will get some grants (money you don't have to pay back) and loans.
Make sure you graduate so that you can get a good job to pay back the loans. The loans are big enough to cover your tuition and your living expenses. But you will have to start paying them back when you graduate, so make sure you do well in school so that you get a good job.
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.