This type of activity is very important in political and civic life. Journalistic documenting can give awareness to people of unjust events that are happening in a different part of the world. This awareness can result in the public pressing governments to take measures on the issue. A person can participate in a democratic society by simply voting and demonstrating through marches and other forms of protest.

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.