What kind of unexplained phenomena and events could have bring this two public figures, past and present, with no personal values and ideals, to destroy Italian society and living standards as well as the Italian world of work?

1) Unfortunately, the national environment concerns, as usual, have been cut off.

2) I wrote "two" instead of "three", so nobody can figure out to whom I'm referring.

:-P

Subject areas

I'm studying to take the 8th level of Trinity (B2) in English.
The third part of the exam is called "subject areas", and I have to talk about
- Society and living standards
-Personal values and ideals
-The world of work
-Unexplained phenomena and events
-National environment concerns
-Public figures past and present
I'm looking for ideas to talk about these areas...
Feel free to help me out :)

Good luck in your exam! Don't forget that nations and nouns of nationality are always capitalised in English. 

Re society and living standards, you could discuss the North/South divide in Italy vs the North/South divie in England and/or America. In all three countries the North is more industrialised than the South, but in England the North is the poorer part of the country, whereas in the USA and Italy it is the South that is the poorer part of the country. Is that something you'd find interesting to talk about?