Visit BLS.gov/OOH for actual info on careers and jobs actually in demand and pay good money. Plenty of careers jobs pay more than 12$ hrly. Visit local community college for many of them.
Local library has books on them.
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.