It is better to spend the time wisely in taking care of your self, good education, learning good habits and work ethics, developing skills, exercise, quality recreation and to be with people who are really nice for a little while only. It is better not to have company than to have bad company, you know yourself and your friends better to take the best decision.
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.