The document provides instructions for a term paper assignment on a painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Students must choose a European painting from between 1250-1830, sketch it at the museum, and write a 1200+ word paper researching the painting using at least 3 scholarly sources. The paper should include facts about the painting as well as the student's impressions and must be properly cited with footnotes and a bibliography. Sources like blogs, Wikipedia and general websites are not acceptable. The assignment is due November 21st along with the museum receipt and sketch.

1. Read the Case
about EMTALA law attached here. In a 500 word response,
write your analysis of why EMTALA applies or does not apply,
based on the lecture notes and readings about the law. If you
were the district judge determining the outcome of this lawsuit,
how would you rule in this case?
Case Study
Five auto accident patients, two with severe head injuries and
internal abdominal injuries and bleeding who were later
transferred to another hospital were brought by ambulance in
the early morning hours to the emergency room of a small rural
hospital in south Williamson, Kentucky. The Williamson
Hospital had no trauma center, had no equipment for monitoring
the effect of anesthesia on the brain during surgery, and had a
longstanding policy of not performing neurosurgery on the
injuries to the brain. Rather, as on the evening of the events in
question, it always transferred such patients to other larger
hospitals, with trauma centers and the medical expertise and
equipment to perform brain surgery.
Dr. Cherukuri, the attending physician on call that night at
Williamson Hospital decided to transfer the two patients with
head injuries to the trauma center at St. Mary’s Hospital, 85
miles away. He did so before operating on their stomach
injuries which would have stopped internal bleeding. He also
effected the transfer an hour before receiving express consent to

2. transfer from the physicians at St. Mary’s Hospital. A lawsuit
against Dr. Cherukuri and the Williamson Hospital was filed,
citing violations under EMTALA.
What ruling do you believe is justified, given what you know
about EMTALA provisions?
World Art I – History of Painting (AHD-1010-3DS)
Fall 2019, Thursdays, 3:00 - 5:50 p.m.
209 E 23 St, Room 303
Instructor: Jeff Edwards ([email protected]) October 24, 2019
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Instructions for the term paper !
This semester’s term paper is a research project on a painting at
the Met Museum. It will be due
in class on November 21, 2019. !
The paper should be at least 1200 words long, double-spaced,
and typed rather than handwritten.
(I suggest that you use12-point Times New Roman font, with 1-
inch margins on all sides. This
will result in a paper four pages long.) It can be longer if you
want, but it doesn’t have to be. !
Here is a summary of what you will have to do for this
assignment. Each of these steps is
described in more detail below: !
• Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and choose a painting
to write about (see the
detailed instructions below for instructions on how to choose
the painting)

3. • While at the museum, sketch the painting and take notes
• Research the painting in at least three reliable, scholarly
sources, not including your
textbook or the Met website
• Write a paper about the painting
• Properly cite all of your research with footnotes, and include a
bibliography
• Submit your paper on the due date, along with your sketch and
a dated museum receipt !!
!
Step 1: museum visit !
Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in New York (1000
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street) and
select any European painting that falls within the periods and
styles covered by this class (late
Gothic through Neoclassical, or roughly the years 1250 to
1800). You don’t have to limit
yourself to the periods I’ve already talked about so far; it can be
from any kind of painting that
will be discussed during this semester. However, the painting
must be from before the year 1830. !
Be sure to get a dated ticket or receipt when you go to the
Museum (or take a photo of yourself
with the painting you’ve chosen); you will need to attach it to
your paper when you turn it in. !
Once you’re at the museum and you’ve chosen the piece you
want to write about, sketch it and
take notes. In addition to recording any important facts about
the painting that are included in the
museum’s wall text, you might want to write down your
impressions of it. If you’re looking at a

4. piece that you picked in advance from the textbook or the Met
website, make note of anything
you see that wasn’t apparent in photos that you saw beforehand.
(Note: the Met doesn’t allow
flash photography or the shooting of videos, and in some
galleries photography is not allowed at
all. In addition, you can only use pencils for taking notes and
sketching; no pens, paints, pastels,
or charcoal are allowed for general visitors.) !!
!
Step 2: research: !
For the next step, you have to research the painting using at
least three reliable sources that are
based on scholarly research, not including your textbook or the
Met website. Here are the rules
for this:
!
1. You can’t use your textbook as one of your main sources.
However, you can use the
textbook as a fourth/additional source.
2. The following kinds of sources are OK to use: art history
books; academic/scholarly art
journals; writings by professional art historians; museum
websites (not including the Met
website, although you can use it as a fourth source). Basically,
anything written by an art
historian is perfect for this assignment.
3. These kinds of sources are NOT OK, and your grade will go
down a lot if you use them:
blogs of any kind; writings by people who aren’t art historians;
Wikipedia or other
encyclopedias; newspaper or magazine articles (See the

5. appendix below for more
information about this rule.)
4. Finally, do not use the following sites: theartstory.org;
arthistory.net; artsy.net;
biography.com; history.com; bbc.com; any website with a name
like artist’s name.com or
artist’s name.org (for example, pablopicasso.org); or any other
site that doesn’t have
citations and a bibliography. If you use any of these sources, I
may return your paper
ungraded and either have you rewrite it or do another one on a
different artwork.
5. If you’re not sure about whether a source is OK to use, e-mail
me to ask.
!
One more note:You can begin your research by looking up your
painting on the Met Museum
website (www.metmuseum.org). The Met has information on
everything in its holdings, and
some of the more well-known objects are also described in short
essays in the Heilbrunn
Timeline of Art History (www.metmuseum.org/toah). Both of
these websites are a good place to
start because they may contain information about other sources
that you can use, but neither site
counts toward your three required sources. as I said above.
However, if you do use any
information from these sites, you have to cite them in your
paper and include them in your
bibliography. For more about this, see the information on
citations below, and in the additional
document about plagiarism that I will make available on
Canvas. You can also use your textbook

6. as an additional source of information if you want to, but it
doesn’t count toward your total of
three sources either. However, as with the Met websites, if you
use any information from the
textbook, you must cite it in the paper and include it in your list
of sources.
!
Step 3: Writing the paper !
Your paper should present a mix of facts and your own
impressions, with most of the weight
placed on the facts. You can devote up to 250 words (about 3/4
of a page) to your own response
to the work, but no more. Here are some suggestions for things
to write about (not all of these
will be relevant for all artworks): !
• Who made the painting, when, where, and why? Is there
anything about the painting or
the artist that’s historically important?
• Where was the painting originally located, and what function
did it serve? Do we know
who originally commissioned it and/or owned it?
• What type of painting medium and techniques were used? (oil
paint, tempera, fresco?)
• Is there any symbolism or significant imagery in the painting?
Does it tell a story? If it’s a
religious painting, what religious story or meaning does it
contain? If it’s not a religious
painting, what does it show, and why was it made?

7. • What aspects or details of the painting are only visible when
you’re standing in front of
it, as opposed to what you can see in photographs of it?
• Is there any disagreement among art historians about what the
painting means, how it was
made, when it was made, or who made it?
• Why did you choose it? (What was it that interested you about
it?)
• What (if anything) did you learn during your research that
surprised you? !
Feel free to discuss other things about the piece that you learn
about during your research. Every
painting is unique, and each will have facts about it that are
unique too. The idea is to give a
good, brief, but detailed account of the artwork. Imagine that
you are writing for someone who
knows about art history, but is unfamiliar with the specific
piece you’ve chosen. How would you
describe it to them so that they could form a good mental
picture of it and understand when,
where, and why it was made? !!
On citations and the bibliography: !
1. your paper must have both citations in the text and a
bibliography. If you don’t include
either (or both), you will get your paper back without a grade
and will have to fix it and
resubmit it. The highest grade you can get on a resubmitted
paper is a B.
2. You must cite all text that’s taken directly from any source
(and such quotes must be in

8. quotation marks), but you must also cite any information that
you’ve taken from a source
and rewritten in your own words (which you should try to do as
much as possible, instead
of using too many direct quotes).
3. You may use any official academic citation style for this
paper (APA, MLA, or Chicago.),
as long as you use it correctly and consistently. If you fail to
use a proper style manual for
your citations and bibliography, you will get you paper back
ungraded and will have to
correct and resubmit it. Citations must include all of the usual
required information
(author, title, date of publication, etc.); don’t just paste a URL
into a footnote; I might
give you an F if you do that.
4. If you don't have a preferred citation style, I suggest you use
Chicago. I’ve placed two
guidelines for this style on the Reference Materials page on
Canvas. Both describe how
to do citations, with examples of both footnote and bibliography
entries.
5. Plagiarism in any form will result in an automatic F on the
paper. For more about
plagiarism and how to avoid it, see the appendix below, and the
document titled “On
plagiarism and citations” that’s posted on the Reference
Materials page on Canvas. If
you get an F for plagiarism, you will have to do another paper
on a different artwork if

9. you want a grade for this assignment.
!
When you turn in your paper, be sure to attach the ticket stub or
receipt (or selfie), along with the
sketch you made while you were there. !
Late papers will be penalized one full letter grade per week (for
example, an A paper gets a C if
it’s submitted two weeks late). !
Be sure that you check your spelling and grammar before you
turn in your paper. If there are too
many problems, I will take points off or return your paper
ungraded. !
If you have any questions about any of this, feel free to ask in
class or by e-mail. !
One last note:For New York-based students, admission to
the Met is a pay-what-you-want
museum, meaning that you don’t have to pay the
full pricethat’s listed on the ticket counter
signs. You can pay as much or as little as
you want to for your admission. Be sure to
bring
your student ID when you go there.
!!
!
!
Appendix: Some additional comments on research, citations,
and plagiarism !
Here are some tips on conducting your research and citing your
sources, and some information
related to my rules for doing your research. Some of these
points explain the reasoning behind
my requirements, and others consist of things I’ll be thinking

10. about when I grade your paper. !
• Why aren’t encyclopedias OK to use? First, they are often too
general in the way they
present information. I want your paper to be specific and
detailed. Second, encyclopedias
can sometimes be unreliable. Research has shown that
encyclopedias like Britannica
often contain almost as many factual errors as Wikipedia in
entries that deal with
specialized fields such as science or art history. !
• Why aren’t art blogs or sites like theartstory.org OK to use as
primary sources?
Because they don't have citations showing where their
information came from, so there’s
no easy way to verify if the information they contain is
accurate. Often, they also don’t
include the name of the author. !
• Your bibliography can include everything you’ve consulted
during your research, even if
you don't use information from some of your sources in your
paper. This includes The
Met’s website if you refer to it, whether or not you use any
information from it in the
paper. This means that you may have more references listed in
your bibliography than are
mentioned in your footnotes; that’s pretty common for research-
based writing. !
• Be sure to put quotation marks around things you’re quoting
directly from any of your

11. sources, but don't rely on direct quotes too much. I want most of
the paper to be in your
own words. It’s a good idea to only use direct quotation when
an author phrases
something so well that you can’t improve on what they said.
Most of the time, you should
try to paraphrase the other person’s ideas to show your
understanding of them (but you
still have to cite the source when you paraphrase from it). !
• Failure to cite any factual information or ideas that you
wouldn’t have known on your
own is plagiarism, and will result in a failing grade for your
paper. Here’s a simple rule
for avoiding plagiarism: if you’re using anyone else’s ideas,
always cite them, even if
you’re rewriting them in your own words. The point is to give
credit to other people for
their research and insights, and avoid presenting someone else’s
work as your own.
However, you don’t have to footnote every single sentence in
your paper. A single
footnote can cover several sentences in a row that are based on
the same source. If you’re
using a book or journal article, be sure to include the page
number where the information
you’re citing is located.