Yes, BYU is better. It is always ranked higher in undergraduate rankings and have some of the best professors in the country. The SAT and GPA scores of students going to BYU are also much higher than at the University of Utah And there football program is way better than utahs.
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.