Would more people answer my questions if I was wearing a cowboy hat in my picture?

Yes. And the only reason I am answering this one is to tell you to get a cowboy hat. For a more serious answer, it may be that the cowboy hat dudes you reference have a lot of followers (so more people automatically see their questions).

Or, it could just be the hat.

I don't often take the quality of someone's hat into consideration when contemplating providing an answer, but there's no doubt that wearing a proper cowboy-hat makes a man significantly more awesome in general. As for a plastic red hat from Walmart, I'm not sure you've got the lady-parts to pull it off...

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.