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For social/cultural you could talk about the phone and its exponential growth in usage (technology increasingly being given to younger kids as well) making you feel isolated within a society where eye-contact seems rare or how the amount of time you spend on your phone has made you an introvert/socially anxious and in a way, a pawn (dependent instead of independent from the system). For political change you could simply talk about the elections and what impact it had on you as an individual. Perhaps this election changed your political identity?