Answer depends on what you are hacking. If it is something for like a school website to change grades or look at your hotties profile or something like that, maybe a talk with a police officer and suspension of computer use in the school. But if it is hacking a major place like a bank or something, then I would suspect higher penalties.
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.