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: [122, 192, 254, 187, 244, 116, 87, 90, 230, 248, 94, 293, 257, 186, 96, 177, 294, 261, 104, 18], k=17
Example Output: 94

Example Input: [232, 30, 288, 47, 34, 183, 131, 91, 172, 265, 178, 235, 68, 286, 255, 243, 198, 246, 290, 272], k=17
Example Output: 68

Example Input: [297, 176, 184, 245, 143, 204, 191, 188, 52, 16, 41, 197, 244, 93, 59, 276, 227, 120, 277, 138], k=14
Example Output:
138

