The Republican senator gave up his dual citizenship months after first learning he was a Canadian citizen. Texas Senator (and possible 2016 presidential hopeful) Ted Cruz has formally given up his Canadian citizenship, about nine months after learning he had it. While at home in Houston on Tuesday, Cruz was notified by mail that the renunciation became official on May 14, The Dallas Morning News reports.
Transience Transience refers to the general deterioration of a specific memory over time. Much more can be remembered of recent events than those further in one's past.
In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as  qualia ). In Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care.n Jainism, all matter is endowed with sentience; there are five degrees of sentience, from one to five. Water, for example, is a sentient being of the first order, as it is considered to possess only one sense, that of touch. Man is considered a sentient being of the fifth order.