Hijab is obligatory in Islam. You have to deal with it. There is no excuse and there are many always try to find themselves comfortable with many reason and even goes beyond length to find some hadiths or something to uncover their heads and dress up worsen then the western women, comes on TV and promote their own ideology of ignorance.
Be yourself happy sister. Your family is supporting and always concern about your travel in here after. There are many in millions without any concern about anyone, whatsoever about going to paradise or hellfire.
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.