H everyone, im 12 and looking for friends( BTW this is my tutors account not mine ) im really in middle school.

But on an april morning in 1959, i heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from new york, say in a tone of quiet desperation, “the problem.” and the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. which best describes the connotation of the word “desperation”? negative, because the woman is feeling confused negative, because the woman is expressing hopelessness positive, because the woman is expressing herself positive, because the woman and the mothers are in agreement

How does specialization enable countries to trade with one another? a country can make and sell goods affordably and buy goods that it is inefficient at making. a country can make what it chooses and sell its goods to other countries. a country can decide to buy everything it needs from other countries. a country can efficiently make goods that were once difficult to make.

Who is the speaker in this excerpt from book 13 of homer’s odyssey, and what inference can you make from the tone?