What is the main fundamental characteristic of the Islamic society?

An Islamic Society is a 'Theocracy'. This means that the government is run by God, or 'religious government' (American is a 'Democracy', meaning 'Government') An Islamic society is based on Sharia Law. These were the laws based on the writing by The Prophet Mohammed. Sharia is "based on the Qur'an (the religious text of Islam), hadith (sayings and doings of Muhammad and his companions), Ijma (consensus), Qiyas (reasoning by analogy)

In an Islamic system, Politicians are Mullahs and Imams (Religious men). They make all the decisions for the people. They are not elected. The people cannot control their government. God controls the government and the government controls the people.

Saudi Arabia is an Islamic Theocracy, although many muslims feel that the rulers in Saudi Arabia are corrupt and not genuinely interested in performing the will of Allah.

In the end, the problem with theocracies is that God is not a 'real' president. He doesn't take decisions or answer questions. So Islamic Society is run by unelected, old, religious men, who tend to be either corrupt or very strict.

Can you suggest some special text passages in regards to the setting of The Great Gatsby?In dealing with the setting of the novel, where in the...

Fitzgerald does a wonderfully succinct job in describing the moral value systems, lifestyles, and social relationships of East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of the Ashes in just a few short (but very pertinent) paragraphs.  For example, the absolute best place to find the most information about East Egg and West Egg is right at the beginning of the novel when Nick (the narrator) first speaks of the subject:

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out onto the most domesticate body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.  They are not perfect ovals--like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed and flat at the contact end--but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.  To the wingless  a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

Nick then goes on to describe how the two aren't similar in regards to setting and character:

I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. . . . Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there.

In other words, the filthy rich live in the two Eggs.  However, there is a big difference between them:  East Egg holds the "old rich" who have always known money while West Egg holds the "new rich" who have only recently acquired wealth.

In regards to the Valley of the Ashes, the best place to look for that description is in the Chapter 2 (which serves as a nice foil to Chapter 1).  The Valley of the Ashes is in direct contrast with the Eggs, and is described as such:

About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.  This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

Further, the setting highlights the morality of the place and is followed up nicely by the description of a sort of morbid "god" that is Doctor T. J. Eckleburg who watches over the immorality with disgust.

I adore how Fitzgerald masters the art of pinpointing the value systems here by highlighting the spendthrift ways of the filthy rich and the morbidity of the dirt poor, . . . and he does it only through setting.  What a genius!

What is element #35? Describe its atomic mass, configuration number, and charges. Please explain J.J. Thomson's experiments.

Element #35 is Bromine, an member of the halogen family  Its standard atomic mass is 79.904 amu, and it possesses 10 isotopes.  The most stable and widespread form of Bromine has 45 neutrons, for an atomic mass of 70; the standard atomic mass is higher due to the weighted average of the 10 isotopes,  which contain additional neutrons.   Since it has 7 electrons in its outer shell, Bromine, like all the Halogens, is reactive to fill in that last electron slot, reacting most readily with the Akaline Earth elements.

Joseph John Thompson was an  English physicist who, with improved vacuum tubes, was able to show in 1897 the deflection of cathode rays in an electric field.  This confirmed the rays as particulate in nature, and he is therefore credited with discovering the electron. He also devised a model of the atom where the electrons were embedded amongst the positively-charged protons, known as the "Raisins in a Pound Cake" model.  Thompson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work.  Seven of his research assistants went on to win Nobel Prizes themselves!

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, I. Asimov, pg. 402, 1964.

What does "The Raven" mean in stanza 10 and 18, including literary devices? I need help writing a report on this poem, but i have a hard time...

Poe's poem is primarily about death -- of his beloved Lenore, of hope, of redemption.  The raven itself is death personified.  Stanza 10, where the narrator states that "Other friends have flown before-" makes the implication that other friends have died, along with hope, and he hopes the bird will as well- a bit of a tongue in cheek joke that he would refer to the raven as a friend.  But of course, the raven replies "Nevermore," as if he, as death, has arrived and remains. This notion is reinforced in the last stanza, 18, where the narrator states that his soul will never escape the raven's shadow; that although perhaps not physically dead, he is trapped, hope is gone, and his love has died. The last sentence can also be interpreted that the narrator's soul is floating on the floor, and it "shall be lifted--nevermore!"

I want to know what the story says about the theme of disguise with regard to the relationship between truth and disguiseThe fact that Montresor...

Actually, nowhere in the story is there anything explicitly stated about disguise, except of course reference to Fortunato's costume. Perhaps the narrator wears one, too. Some old engravings depict the story that way. We could presume this since the story takes place during the Carnival season in Italy.

On the other hand, the narrator has much to say about disguising his intentions. The reader knows from the very start that Montresor is going to tell a tale of revenge. He talks about how he "baited" Fortunato to come inside his family vaults, which served the double purpose of cellar and tomb. He is proud of his skill at deceit, and there is no hint of remorse when he reveals how he went about his crime.

About the character roles - there an analogy between Montresor and Fortunato; Montresor is the king's "jester," so to speak, and Fortunato is the king's "fool." Montresor "plays" with his victim before killing him and Fortunato, in his naïve stupor, is the idiot who doesn't pick up on what is going on....

In "Fahrenheit 451", what are two professional symbols that Montag wears?

Montags helmet has the number 451 on it. This alludes to the title of the book "Fahrenheit 451" and happens to be the temperature at which paper burns. This is an obvious reflection of the fireman's job in the novel, which is to burn books. Montag also wears a picture of a salamander on his uniform. The salamander is a mythical lizard who can live in fire. This is a symbol for the destructive forces for which Montag and his company use fire.

I am looking for the definition of a polynomial.

In case you had trouble understanding those two complex definitions, here's a simpler one.

First, poly means many, and nomial means name.  So, a polynomial has more than one part to it.  

It is a mathematical expression -- in other words, a string of mathematical symbols that aren't nonsense.

There are three kinds of things that can be in a polynomial:

1. variables (like x)
2. constants (like the 3 in 3x, or the 4 in x^2 + 2x + 4)
3. whole number exponents that aren't negative (like x^2, but not x^-2 or x^1/4)

Lastly, the expression can have addition, subtraction and multiplication, but not division.

I hope this is helpful.