If your using a web. Config then I am assuming that you have an ASP.Net application. The web.
Config stores configurational data for a . NET application. If you don't create an application within your virtual directory then you will see the error you are because there is no application for IIS to serve.
This link should help.
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.