Reduce it to a single plot event in your long story. It would be the initiating event—#4. The rest of the pyramid is made up of the US’s response as it is experienced by the people (that’s #7). If we continue thinking about social conflict as a story (think: Freytag′s Pyramid), we can imagine the long social conflict as having beginning, a middle, and a (tentative) end: 1-Exposition: Historical context that describes the imbalance or injustice 2-Initiating action: The event that is generally understood to be the event that marks the beginning of the social movement to address the deeper conflict 3-Rising action: Milestone events that mark significant moments in the evolution of the social conflict, which ends with your news story (today′s current event) 4-Climax: Your policy proposal that addresses the current injustice/problem that is grounding in the longer historical injustice 5-Falling action: How your policy will work to address the injustice, a valid critique of your proposal, and a thoughtful answer to that critique 6-Resolution: Desсrіption of the way that the proposal will effect society 7-Denouement: How the resolution will change the lived experiences of specific people at a small scale; how the resolution will change the lived experiences of people on a more global scale.
