Power <span>is the ability to manipulate, influence, or control other people or events. Power can be found in someone anywhere, doing anything. When a person posses power they have the ability to control people or tings around them in ways that others without power can not. Power is powerful and can be harmless or harmful to others depending on the situation. </span>
When an instructor listens carefully to your question in class, he or she is using acknowledgment.
The instructor is acknowledging that you are speaking and that you are interesting in knowing the answer to your question. He or she is not irritable, but rather patient with you and listens without interrupting you.
In his work summa theologica b. thomas aquinas concluded that there is no conflict between faith and reason