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.
Q: [177, 228, 14, 220, 18, 56, 245, 139, 104, 137, 144, 35, 75, 143, 101, 188, 153, 257, 278, 293], k=8
A: 
177