In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth largest element in the input list.

Example Input: [102, 296, 258, 44, 199, 174, 216, 299, 188, 147, 255, 28, 241, 21, 32, 243, 276, 128, 57, 142], k=13
Example Output: 142

Example Input: [96, 236, 17, 279, 218, 255, 222, 18, 91, 99, 85, 105, 108, 133, 284, 245, 58, 139, 215, 221], k=2
Example Output: 279

Example Input: [87, 141, 139, 48, 188, 47, 70, 55, 86, 181, 66, 228, 44, 272, 92, 97, 187, 246, 235, 239], k=18
Example Output:
48

