| Look back on a few threads; that has lots of 'universal examples.' I always recommend against using universal examples. Sometimes you really have to stretch some of the examples to make them work, and if you think about the examples on your own when you read the prompt, you might get examples that work much better. You can make up examples, but of course it's better to use real incidences, because you can probably communicate how a real incident supports your argument better. | 
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