DNA is a collection of chemicals basically, which was most likely not the starting point of life! DNA will not just create itself, this process happens inside the cell. At some point in the distant past a collection of chemicals must have came together in a basic configutration to have eventually led to basic life and ultimately us.As for travelling to the nearest star other than our sun, this is not possible yet, and as far as physics as we understand it it would take infinite ammounts of energy to accelerate an object to the speed of light which is the kind of speed required to reach distant stars in any reasonable ammount of time.
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.