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Ray Charles

Chris Valadez

PSY 200
Pamela Poynter
April 14, 2005

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Ray Charles was the first child of Aretha and Bailey Robinson. He was born in Albany, GA, on September 23, 1930. The time was the height of the Depression in the segregated South, and the Robinsons had started out poor. "You hear folks talking about being poor," Charles recounts. "Even compared to other blacks. . . we were on the bottom of the ladder looking up at everyone else. Nothing below us except the ground" (Charles, 2005). Ray's mother loved him intensely, and those early years of matenal love fortified him for what was to come.
During the first seven years of his life, Ray transitioned through the first two stages of personality development normally. Stage one is basic trust vs. mistrust, and his mother was devoted to him. She instilled the belief in him that no one on earth was better than anyone else. Ray had no disabilities until he was almost five so the assumption is that he......

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