Kanye West Research Paper

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Kanye West as we all know is a rapper, producer, songwriter, etc. Although he is very well known for his work, there’s a little more to know about him as a normal person. Kanye was born on June 8, 1977 in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. At about age 3, Kanye’s parents decided to divorce and he was raised by his mother. He moved to Chicago’s South Side with his mother who happened to be an English professor. Like some children with divorced parents, Kanye would spend his summers with his father who eventually became a church counselor. Kanye went to a school called Polaris High School in which he got his diploma and graduated from. Kanye actually went to Chicago State, which is an art school, and completed about one year. In 2004, Kanye explained in an interview why he didn’t stay in college. Kanye said, “I dropped out of school because I wasn’t learning fast enough…. …show more content…
As we grow and develop, we all go through these stages. The first stage, Sensorimotor, is from birth to about two years of age. In this stage, you were experiencing the world by looking, touching, mouthing, and grasping. Until at least 6 months old, you are not yet aware of object permanence, which means that even when you can’t see an object, you are still aware that it exists. In the second stage preoperational, the age ranges from two until six or seven years of age. In this stage you are able to use words and images to represent or talk about things. In this stage, you are normally playing pretend and believe that everyone thinks the same way as you. For example, around this age a 6-year-old girl would want to give her mom a Barbie doll for her birthday because that’s what she would want. The third stage is concrete operational which is from age seven to about age 11. In this stage you are using logical thinking and you should be able to perform arithmetical

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