He wrote letters from Birmingham Jail to make the public aware and involved of the injustices african americans were suffering at the time.
The private sector can play a role in poverty alleviation by primarily offering jobs to people out of work ie by providing employment directly in the company or indirectly in associated industries that get business from the enterprise in question which may be supplier or a contractor for say the principal mining business.
The award-winning actor was infamous for throwing fits and not getting along with the cast.
That sentence is actually an example of a simile. Similes are known to compare something to another. You can tell whether it's a simile since a simile uses either "like" or "as" in their sentence as they're comparing something.