In what ways might a debating class contribute to students' cognitive linguistic social and moral development?

They will learn to not only form complex ideas and opinions, but learn to convey those ideas effectively and convincingly. In other words they are exercising all of the muscles you are describing.

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.