I hope you plan on planting away, away, away from the water. I had a friend invest 5 grand on landscaping near the pool, only to tear the plants, rocks and bark out. She paid extra to cement over the whole thing and pay for the materials and labor.
The problem: it didn't matter what she planted because the rocks, bark and leaves were always falling into the pool. If guests and swimmers weren't knocking her landscaping into the pool, the wind and rain did a good job. She got tired of fishing her landscaping out of the water or paying the pool man to do it.
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.